Rocheston Certified Cybercrime Investigator (RCCI)

A laptop is handed in after a suspected data theft. Before anyone opens a single file, the investigator has to decide how to capture its contents without changing them, how to prove that later, and where the strongest evidence is likely to be. RCCI training teaches that discipline through five days of hands-on lab work. The Rocheston Certified Cybercrime Investigator (RCCI) course is built for professionals who learn best by working real cases, in a safe and controlled environment.

The labs run on Rocheston Winston OS, a forensic environment preloaded with investigation tools. Learners begin by documenting evidence and its chain of custody, then create forensic images and verify them with hash values. That step shows the copy matches the original exactly. Analysis follows, as learners recover deleted data and examine file systems, the registry, logs, and metadata, then turn their findings into a timeline of what happened and when.

Later lab work broadens the case types. Learners explore phishing and fraud, insider threats, cloud and mobile evidence, cryptocurrency activity and social media investigations. Each case uses only simulated, redacted, or legally permitted material. The final exercise, Operation Silent Trace, combines everything into a single breach investigation that ends with a court-ready report.

Outside the lab, the same method transfers directly to the workplace: preserve first, analyse second, document throughout. Responders, analysts and investigators who work this way produce findings that managers can rely on and that hold up under challenge. Rocheston’s wider portfolio is listed on our Rocheston training page.

Course Structure and Key Details

RCCI follows the order of a real investigation across five days. Learners start with the rules, move into collecting and analysing evidence, widen out to specialised case types and finish by reporting their findings.

The first day covers cybercrime, law, ethics, evidence handling, privacy and chain of custody, so every later step rests on sound procedure. The second day covers incident response and containment, then forensic imaging and hash verification. On the third day, learners work through file systems, deleted data, the registry, logs and metadata, and build timelines from what they find. The fourth day is given to specialised investigations, including fraud, phishing, insider threats, cloud, mobile, dark web, cryptocurrency and social media. The fifth day focuses on court-ready reporting, the Operation Silent Trace capstone and exam preparation.

The content is also mapped to six investigation tracks containing more than 50 specialisations. These are financial cybercrime, identity and online abuse, enterprise cybercrime, device and network forensics, cloud, web and database evidence, and emerging technology such as IoT and industrial control systems. In the capstone, learners investigate a simulated breach involving phishing, credential theft, unauthorised file access and possible exfiltration, then submit a full evidence package and findings report.

All practical work takes place in Rocheston Winston OS. Rocheston offers the course as live instructor-led training, blended learning or self-paced study on Cyberclass, and our Muscat team can confirm which format suits your schedule.

Rocheston recommends a working knowledge of basic cybersecurity, operating systems and file systems, networking, logs and user activity, and basic incident response, plus awareness of the legal sensitivity of evidence. The course is not intended for IT beginners, and law enforcement experience is not required.

Assessment is through a 100-question exam that combines multiple-choice, true/false, and short-answer questions. It lasts two hours, has a 70% pass mark, and is taken online with Ramsys proctoring. A Rocheston certificate is awarded only to candidates who pass, and it can be verified through Rocheston Roxy. For further study, Rocheston suggests RCCE Level 2, CCO, or RCAI.

Course Objectives

• Document evidence and maintain chain of custody in line with legal and ethical requirements.
• Acquire forensic images and confirm their integrity using hash verification.
• Recover deleted data and analyse file system artefacts in the Winston OS lab.
• Examine registry entries, logs and metadata to establish user and system activity.
• Build a timeline that links individual artefacts into a clear sequence of events.
• Apply forensic techniques to fraud, phishing, insider threat, cloud, and mobile cases.
• Support incident response by preserving evidence during containment.
• Complete a full capstone investigation and present the findings in a court-ready report.