About Rocheston
We are small. That’s our strength. You won’t see our logo on billboards or our name plastered across big conferences. We don’t have a marketing team. We don’t have sales channels. We had no money, no investors, no funding—only grit, honesty, integrity, and trust. And with that, an unshakable belief that real cybersecurity isn’t branded—it’s built.
Rocheston began in a garage, with a table at Starbucks serving as our first “conference room.” Two people. One laptop. Zero budget. Nights that blurred into mornings. Coffee going cold while code broke, got rebuilt, broke again—and finally worked. No outside backing. No safety net. Out of nothing but sweat and stubbornness came one relentless mission: to create a cybersecurity curriculum that built real skill. Not paper. Not posturing. Skill.
Our founder, Haja Mo, lived this struggle. A student of Steve Jobs’ design philosophy, he obsessed over the details others ignored. With no funding to hire teams, he built RCCE entirely by himself—the labs, Rosé OS, the cyber range, the exams. He worked wherever he could open his laptop: on rattling trains, crowded buses, noisy restaurants where plates clattered and lights dimmed. He scribbled exam flows on napkins. He coded until his battery died, then hunted for the lone power outlet tucked behind a plant. When everything failed at 2 a.m., he closed the logs, took a deep breath, and opened them again.
There were no shortcuts. Just resilience. Bounce back, build better. Day after day. Night after night. That’s how RCCE came alive.
Even today, companies with two hundred employees and millions in funding can’t ship what Haja creates with one machine. That’s not hype—it’s the character of our founder, and the culture he built here: humble, relentless, allergic to fluff.
We chose the underdog road, knowing it meant enemies. Competitors don’t like that we give away what they lock up. They charge thousands for slides and PDFs. We give labs, books, training materials away for free—because real learning shouldn’t be paywalled. And because of that, the pressure came. Whispers. Closed doors. Institutions warned off from running our programs. It didn’t matter—we had no investors to please, no board to silence us. We kept going.
And here’s the thing: you can’t kill something real. The proof is in the pudding. We don’t talk—we deliver. Our students stepped into the labs, took the exams, and word spread the only way that matters in security: one practitioner to another.
A SOC lead said, “These people don’t hand you paper; they give you capability.”
A red-teamer wrote, “This felt like a breach I actually worked.”
An instructor shared, “My students aren’t memorizing—they’re operating.”
And that’s how RCCE became respected. Today, we’ve trained and certified thousands of professionals across the world. Every certificate carries late nights, broken code, resilience, and the quiet pride of solving a real problem the right way. RCCE is now ANAB accredited and endorsed by the U.S. Government. It is recognized globally as one of the most elite cybersecurity certifications in the industry. But here’s the difference: we didn’t get here by chasing numbers, revenue, or mass enrollments. We are not after vanity metrics. We are after quality. We are after skill. We are after building professionals who can stand in the fire when it matters most. That is why the world respects RCCE.
We are still small, and we like it that way. No investors telling us to cut corners. No funds dictating how fast to scale. Being small means your email doesn’t sit in a ticket queue—it lands with a human who cares. It means we can rip out a weak module on Tuesday and rebuild it stronger by Friday. It means our names are on our work, sleeves rolled up, no distance between builder and learner.
If you’ve ever felt let down by empty promises, know this: we built Rocheston for you. We are the underdog that keeps showing up. We will keep building. We will keep giving. We will keep earning your trust, one lab, one exam, one career at a time.
We’re still here, still small, still fighting, still unfunded—and still building for you. If you’ve ever rooted for an underdog, now’s your chance.
To every student, instructor, partner, and friend who believed in us—thank you. Thank you for believing in Rocheston, in Haja Mo, and in a small team that refused to quit. Walk with us. This is your story too.
God bless. 🙏
