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Welcome to Certified: The ISACA CGEIT Audio Course. A focused, audio-first path through enterprise governance of IT, built for people who have responsibilities, deadlines, and real stakeholders. Here’s what you can expect: clear explanations that assume you’re capable, but don’t assume you have unlimited study time or a quiet desk. We’ll connect governance concepts to practical decisions—how organizations choose priorities, how they measure value, how they control risk, and how they manage resources across a portfolio. The tone stays professional and direct, because CGEIT rewards ...

Welcome to Certified: The ISACA CDPSE Audio Course. I’m going to guide you through the ideas and skills that sit behind the Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer credential, in a way that’s clear, exam-aligned, and grounded in how privacy actually works inside organizations. You can expect focused episodes that build your understanding step by step, from privacy governance and data life cycle thinking to privacy by design practices that hold up under real delivery pressure. We’ll keep the language straightforward, define terms in context, and connect each topic to the kinds of ...

Welcome to Certified: The ISACA CCOA Audio Course, a focused, audio-first program designed to help you build confidence in cybersecurity audit and assurance. If you’ve ever struggled to interpret an audit request, map security work to a control expectation, or explain evidence in a way that satisfies reviewers, you’re in the right place. I’ll guide you through the concepts that show up again and again in assurance work: how audit scope gets defined, how controls are evaluated, what strong evidence looks like, and how findings are framed. Expect clear explanations, practical language, and...

Welcome to Certified: The ISACA GISF Audio Course. I built this course for people who want a clear, practical path into cybersecurity fundamentals—whether you’re moving into a security role, supporting security from IT or operations, or trying to build a reliable baseline before you specialize. Here’s what you can expect: short, focused lessons that connect concepts to real environments, plain-language explanations that still respect the technical detail, and a steady progression that helps you understand not just what something is, but why it matters. We’ll cover threats, risk, ...

Welcome to Certified: The ISACA AAIR Audio Course. If you’re here, you’re probably seeing AI show up everywhere: in products, in internal tools, in vendor roadmaps, and in executive conversations that expect quick answers. I built this course for people who need to evaluate AI systems responsibly, even when they don’t have time to become machine learning specialists. Across these episodes, we’ll translate AI concepts into assurance language you can use: governance, controls, evidence, risk, and accountability. You’ll learn how to ask better questions, how to recognize weak assurances...

Welcome to Certified: The ISACA GSOM Audio Course. I’m here to help you build the kind of security operations management mindset that works in the real world, where priorities shift, alerts pile up, and executives want answers in plain language. Across this course, you can expect practical explanations, clear definitions, and guidance that connects day-to-day operations to business risk. We’ll talk about how security teams are structured, how work gets triaged and tracked, how incidents are managed without chaos, and how to report progress in a way leaders trust. Everything is taught with ...

Welcome to Certified: The ISACA GCIL Audio Course. I’m Dr Jason Edwards, and I built this series for people who need governance leadership skills that hold up under real pressure—tight timelines, conflicting priorities, and stakeholders who want answers today. Across these lessons, you’ll hear a clear, practical walkthrough of what governance leadership means, how it differs from management, and how to apply it in organizations where technology, risk, and business goals collide. Expect short, focused episodes with straightforward explanations, common-sense examples, and language you can ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

This audio-only CSSLP prep course is built for busy security professionals who want to study anywhere, without a screen. Across 70 tightly focused episodes, you’ll walk the full Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional exam blueprint, from requirements and architecture to implementation, testing, operations, and supply chain risk. Each episode is structured as a guided journey: clear concepts, concrete examples, pitfalls to avoid, and quick mental rehearsals you can follow along with in real time. You’ll hear practical takes on exam strategy, secure design principles, SDLC ...

The PMI-RMP Audio Course is your complete audio companion for mastering risk management—designed for professionals who need both exam confidence and real-world fluency. Across 80+ focused episodes, you’ll learn how to think like a risk leader: shaping strategy, identifying threats and opportunities, analyzing exposure, and crafting responses that stand up to scrutiny. Each episode blends clear explanations with relatable project scenarios, helping you connect every domain of the Project Management Institute – Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) blueprint to practical evidence, ...

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. ...

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