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The Bare Metal Cyber CISA Audio Course is your complete, exam-focused companion for mastering the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification. Designed for IT auditors, security professionals, and governance specialists, this comprehensive Audio Course transforms the ISACA exam blueprint into over one hundred clear, structured, and engaging episodes. Each lesson delivers practical explanations and real-world context across all five CISA domains—ranging from audit processes and IT governance to systems acquisition, operations, resilience, and information asset protection. ...

Welcome to The Bare Metal Cyber CISSP Audio Course—your comprehensive companion for mastering the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. Built for serious cybersecurity professionals and aspiring leaders alike, this Audio Course transforms the eight domains of the CISSP Common Body of Knowledge into clear, structured, and engaging lessons you can learn anytime, anywhere. Each episode blends real-world context, expert insight, and exam-focused explanations to help you understand not just what to study, but how to think like a security professional. Whether ...

**Framework** is your go-to podcast for mastering the **NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)**—the foundational model for building and improving organizational security programs. This series breaks down every function, category, and subcategory within the CSF, helping professionals, educators, and leaders understand how to apply the framework in real-world environments. Each episode delivers clear, practical explanations that connect framework concepts to daily security operations, governance, and risk management practices. Whether you’re new to cybersecurity or refining an established ...

Beyond the Call: Medal of Honor Stories is a podcast dedicated to sharing the incredible true stories of the bravest soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines in American history. Each episode dives deep into the acts of extraordinary heroism that earned these individuals the Medal of Honor, the highest military award for valor in the United States. From the battlefields of the American Civil War to modern conflicts, we explore the battles they fought, the impossible decisions they made under fire, and the lasting impact of their courage. Whether they made the ultimate sacrifice or continued to ...

The Tech+ Audio Course is your complete, on-demand study companion for mastering the CompTIA Tech+ (FC0-U71) certification exam. Designed for those beginning their journey into information technology, it guides you step by step through every domain and objective of the official exam blueprint. Each episode transforms complex IT concepts into clear, relatable lessons filled with practical examples, definitions, and real-world applications. Whether you’re learning about hardware components, software fundamentals, networking basics, or troubleshooting procedures, you’ll gain the understanding...

The Bare Metal Cyber CISM Audio Course is your comprehensive, exam-focused audio companion for mastering the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification. Designed to guide aspiring security leaders through all four domains of the CISM exam, this prepcast translates complex risk, governance, and incident response concepts into clear, structured, and easy-to-follow episodes. Whether you're transitioning from a technical role or already managing security programs, the series offers over 70 expertly crafted sessions to reinforce key principles, strengthen exam readiness, and ...

The ISO/IEC 27001 Framework is the internationally recognized standard for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an Information Security Management System (ISMS). It provides a systematic approach to managing sensitive information through risk management, governance, and control implementation. At its core, ISO 27001 helps organizations protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data—whether stored, processed, or transmitted—by aligning security practices with business objectives and regulatory requirements. The framework is built around a ...

The Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Audio Course is your comprehensive, audio-first companion for mastering the (ISC)² CCSP certification—the global standard for cloud security expertise. Designed for professionals who learn best on the go, this Audio Course transforms the official exam domains into structured, accessible, and engaging lessons you can absorb anywhere. Each episode dives deep into the essential knowledge areas—covering cloud concepts, architecture, design, data security, platform and infrastructure security, application security, operations, and legal and ...

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. ...

These stories are a little bit of madness, brought to you by some of the best horror authors working in the industry, today, that wanted to show off their love for splatterpunk.

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 SSCP Audio Course from BareMetalCyber.com delivers a complete, exam-ready learning experience for cybersecurity professionals who prefer to learn on the go. Each episode breaks down complex security concepts into plain English, aligning directly with the official (ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner domains. Listeners gain a clear understanding of the core principles—access controls, risk management, cryptography, network defense, and incident response—through real-world examples that tie theory to practice. Every topic is designed to reinforce what matters most on exam day:...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This **NIST Special Publication 800-53 Audio Course** is a complete, audio-first learning series designed to make one of the most comprehensive cybersecurity standards both clear and approachable. Through structured, plain-language narration, each episode walks you through the controls, objectives, and principles that form the foundation of modern federal and enterprise security programs. You’ll learn how NIST 800-53 defines safeguards across access control, incident response, risk assessment, system integrity, and continuous monitoring—building both exam readiness and real-world ...

The **Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Audio Course** is your complete, audio-first companion for mastering Microsoft’s foundational cloud certification. Designed for beginners and professionals alike, this course guides you step by step through the essential principles of cloud computing and the Microsoft Azure platform. Each episode transforms exam objectives into clear, practical lessons—covering cloud concepts, architecture components, identity and access management, security controls, and cost management tools. By focusing on clarity and context, the series helps you not just memorize ...