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The podcast delivers practical cloud security guidance for professionals who have to ship real systems on real timelines. Episodes focus on the moves that prevent costly incidents: reducing accidental exposure, tightening identity and permissions, hardening serverless triggers, securing managed platforms, and building durable defaults that survive updates and team changes. The approach is technical and operational, with clear explanations that translate directly into repeatable patterns. Each topic is designed to help you think like both a defender and an architect: what attackers exploit ...

This course teaches you how to secure cloud environments the way real incidents unfold: misconfigurations, over-permissioned identities, weak network boundaries, and data exposure paths that are easy to miss until it’s too late. You’ll build a practical, defensible security posture across compute, containers, storage, and managed services by using hardened baselines, policy enforcement, continuous validation, and clear ownership. Along the way, you’ll learn how to reduce attack surface with immutable deployment patterns, least privilege workload identities, safe sharing defaults, and ...

This audio-first cybersecurity course is built for busy professionals who need security that works in real environments, not just on slides. You’ll learn how to design monitoring, logging, SIEM, and SOAR operations that produce usable visibility, reduce noise, and support fast, defensible response. Along the way, you’ll connect technical controls to practical program execution: ownership, SLAs, governance, decision rights, and evidence that holds up during incidents and audits. You’ll also strengthen your ability to explain risk in business terms and prioritize work using context like ...

GCCC is a control-first security course built for busy professionals who want practical mastery of the CIS Controls v8 and the real-world workflows that make them stick. You’ll learn how to inventory assets and software with confidence, harden configurations without breaking operations, manage vulnerabilities with proof-based closure, and turn logging into outcomes through centralized collection, correlation, and sustainable alerting. The course also covers malware defense as layered prevention plus rapid containment, data protection through classification, access boundaries, and safe ...

This course is designed to teach you how real-world threat intelligence actually works, from first signal to final decision. It focuses on turning raw technical data into clear, defensible intelligence that security teams and leaders can trust. Rather than memorizing isolated frameworks or chasing alerts, you learn how to think analytically, challenge assumptions, and build conclusions that hold up under pressure. The emphasis throughout is on clarity, rigor, and practical application in modern security environments. You will learn how to model intrusions, track adversary behavior over time, ...

This audio-first security strategy course helps you turn security intent into measurable execution. You will learn how to assess current capabilities against mission outcomes and real risk, identify gaps and root causes, and prioritize improvements with clear business rationale. The course shows you how to translate technical work into outcomes leaders care about, like reliability, resilience, and reduced incident impact, then sequence initiatives so they land with minimal friction across teams. You will also learn how to build a strategic roadmap that blends quick wins with foundational ...

Welcome to Certified: The GIAC GLEG Certification Audio Course. I’m your guide for this series, and my job is to make the legal side of cybersecurity feel clear, practical, and usable, even if you’ve never taken a law class. In the real world, security work doesn’t happen in a vacuum. The moment an incident becomes an investigation, or a monitoring tool becomes a privacy concern, legal rules start shaping what you can do and how you should document it. In this course, we’ll connect the law of data security and investigations to the decisions you make in policy, compliance, incident ...

Welcome to Certified: The ISACA AAIA Audio Course. I’m your guide for this series, and my job is to make AI auditing feel clear, structured, and doable for people who already have a full plate. Across these episodes, you’ll build a practical mental model for how AI systems work in an organization and how an auditor or assurance professional should evaluate them. Expect plain language, a steady pace, and a focus on what you can actually test, document, and defend. We’ll spend time on governance, data, models, controls, and monitoring, but we’ll always bring it back to audit outcomes: ...

This DataX DY0-001 PrepCast is an exam-focused, audio-first course designed to train analytical judgment rather than rote memorization, guiding you through the full scope of the CompTIA DataX exam exactly the way the test expects you to think. The course builds from statistical and mathematical foundations into exploratory analysis, feature design, modeling, machine learning, and business integration, with each episode reinforcing how to interpret scenarios, recognize constraints, select defensible methods, and avoid common traps such as leakage, metric misuse, and misaligned objectives. ...

The CloudNetX PrepCast is an exam-focused audio course designed to teach you how to think like a network architect operating in modern hybrid environments. Rather than memorizing protocols or vendor features in isolation, this course trains you to interpret scenario-based questions, identify constraints, and select designs that balance security, availability, performance, and cost the way the CloudNetX exam expects. Each episode builds practical architectural reasoning skills, covering topics such as routing intent, segmentation strategy, identity-driven access, cloud interconnects, resilience...

A space to listen to poetry like you listen to your favourite music, on repeat! We feature poetry from poets who call Canada home with the goal of exposing it to the world, while giving listeners a chance to dive deeper into each poem with a 2nd and 3rd reading. Our audience loves diving further into the poem with each reading and the poets featured love hearing their work through another poet's eyes, ears, heart and voice. Would you be interested in hearing you Canadian poem on Eh Poetry? I would love to hear from you: jason.e.coombs[at]gmail[dot]com or leave a voice message below. ...

Soccer is Ian Edwards favorite topic to talk about so check out his funny weekly football podcast.

In this frighteningly funny mix of Ghostbusters and Monsters Inc, there is only one person who can help fifth grade boy-genius Will Allen when he is beset by fears that have literally come to life: the Great Monster Detective, Bigelow Hawkins! But even with Bigelow's help, along with the use of some very special monster detective tools, can Will learn how to conquer his monsters and uncover the secret of the dreadful Hidden Beast before it's too late?

CompTIA Data+ DA0-002 PrepCast is an audio-first certification preparation series designed to help you build practical, test-ready judgment across the full Data+ blueprint. Across the course, you learn how to recognize what a scenario is truly asking, choose appropriate data sources and repositories, work confidently with common file types and structures, and apply core preparation techniques such as integration, joins, missing value handling, duplication and outlier checks, text cleaning, reshaping, and feature creation. The series also strengthens your ability to select and interpret ...

Cybersecurity is more than tools and threats — it’s the people who choose this path, and I’d love to hear how you found yours. Suppose you’re a student, early-career professional, veteran, career changer, or seasoned practitioner. In that case, you’re invited to share your story for a short, relaxed conversation that will be featured across Bare Metal Cyber channels. Use the form below to tell me a bit about your background, where you are in your journey, and what you’d like to talk about, and I’ll follow up to schedule an interview. Every path into cyber is different, and yours ...

Uniform: Stories of Service is a Trackpads.com podcast devoted to the lived experience of military life. Each episode features a veteran sharing what service looked and felt like from their side of the formation – the training, the day-to-day routines, the small moments with their unit, the deployments, and the quiet stretches in between. These are not scripted histories or celebrity profiles; they are real stories, told in plain language, that capture what it means to wear the uniform in any branch, job, or era. Developed by Trackpads.com and aligned with Dispatch: U.S. Military History ...

Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine isn’t just something you read—it’s something you can listen to and experience. The Dispatch audio editions bring the print magazine to life in narrated form, so you can follow America’s military story on your commute, in the workshop, at the gym, or whenever you want history in your ears. Every episode is built from the same research-driven articles you’ll find on Trackpads.com, but voiced and paced for audio, so the details of a battle, a biography, or a weapon system feel vivid and easy to follow.

Step inside the FedRAMP world with an audio course built for real people, not policy wonks. In clear, story-driven language, each short episode unpacks the steps, roles, and secrets behind earning and keeping a federal cloud authorization. You’ll hear how the pieces fit together—documents, assessments, evidence, and continuous monitoring—without ever touching a slide or staring at a diagram. It’s designed for anyone who wants to get it: cloud providers chasing their first ATO, assessors sharpening their review skills, or agency staff looking to understand how it all connects. You’ll ...

This audio course builds practical, exam-ready fluency for the Payment Card Industry Professional certification by teaching you how to reason the way PCI questions are written and how real assessments are performed. Across the series you’ll learn core definitions that drive every decision—what constitutes cardholder data and sensitive authentication data, how roles differ between merchants and service providers, and where PCI DSS sits among companion standards like P2PE, SSF, PIN, PTS, and card production requirements. Episodes translate those concepts into a working toolkit: map payment ...

The CompTIA IT Fundamentals+ Audio Course is your step-by-step guide to building a rock-solid foundation in information technology. Covering hardware, software, networking, databases, and security, each episode breaks down complex concepts into simple, engaging lessons designed for absolute beginners. Whether you’re exploring a new career path, supporting technology at home, or preparing for more advanced certifications, this Audio Course helps you understand how computers, devices, and systems work together in the real world. Every topic is aligned to the official exam objectives and ...