All Episodes
Displaying 21 - 40 of 60 in total
Episode 21 — Build continuous vulnerability management: coverage, scan cadence, and owner assignment
This episode explains how to build a continuous vulnerability management program that the GCCC exam expects you to understand as an operational control, not a one-time...
Episode 22 — Prioritize vulnerabilities with risk context, exploitability, and exposure-driven triage
This episode teaches vulnerability prioritization as a decision process that combines severity with real risk, which is a frequent exam theme when multiple “correct” f...
Episode 23 — Close vulnerabilities with verification evidence, rollback planning, and durable tracking
This episode focuses on the part of vulnerability management that separates mature programs from noisy dashboards: closure with proof. You’ll define what it means to “...
Episode 24 — Decide what to log and why: events that power detection and investigations
This episode teaches log strategy from first principles so you can answer exam questions about visibility, detection, and investigation readiness. You’ll define loggin...
Episode 25 — Centralize and normalize logs for correlation, retention integrity, and fast search
This episode explains why centralizing logs is necessary for modern detection and response and how normalization turns scattered records into a usable investigative ti...
Episode 26 — Turn logs into outcomes: alerting strategy, review routines, and noise reduction
This episode turns logging into a detection capability by focusing on alerting strategy, review routines, and sustainable noise reduction. You’ll define an alert as a ...
Episode 27 — Prevent malware execution using layered controls across endpoints and servers
This episode explains malware prevention as a layered control strategy that reduces both initial execution and successful persistence, which is core to control-based e...
Episode 28 — Contain malware spread with segmentation, privilege limits, and rapid isolation routines
This episode focuses on containment as the difference between a single compromised host and a widespread outage. You’ll define containment as limiting lateral movement...
Episode 29 — Validate malware defenses with testing, tuning, and incident-driven improvement loops
This episode teaches how to validate malware defenses so you can prove protection is real and continuously improving, not merely installed. You’ll define validation as...
Episode 30 — Inventory network infrastructure: devices, services, dependencies, and ownership clarity
This episode explains network infrastructure inventory as a prerequisite for controlling exposure, troubleshooting outages, and answering exam questions about scope an...
Episode 31 — Harden network device management planes to reduce takeover and tampering risk
This episode explains how to secure network device management planes so attackers cannot quietly take control of routing, switching, or security enforcement. You’ll de...
Episode 32 — Control network changes safely with baselines, approvals, and rollback discipline
This episode focuses on network change control as a security control, not just an IT process, because uncontrolled changes can create exposures faster than scanners ca...
Episode 33 — Design network visibility that matters: telemetry selection and baseline behavior modeling
This episode teaches how to design network visibility that produces actionable security outcomes instead of overwhelming teams with noise. You’ll define telemetry as t...
Episode 34 — Detect threats faster with triage workflows, escalation rules, and response coordination
This episode focuses on detection as a process, not a product, showing how triage workflows and escalation rules turn alerts into timely action. You’ll define triage a...
Episode 35 — Improve monitoring outcomes with tuning, validation, and gap-driven coverage fixes
This episode teaches how to improve monitoring outcomes by treating detection as an engineered system that needs tuning, validation, and continuous coverage improvemen...
Episode 36 — Reduce phishing success with email controls that block, warn, and verify safely
This episode focuses on reducing phishing success by combining blocking, warning, and verification controls that protect users even when messages look legitimate. You’...
Episode 37 — Harden web browsing with technical safeguards and safer execution pathways
This episode explains how to harden web browsing so routine internet use does not become an easy malware delivery channel or credential theft pathway. You’ll define br...
Episode 38 — Confirm email and browser protections work with testing and measurable outcomes
This episode focuses on confirming that phishing and browsing controls actually reduce risk by using testing and measurable outcomes rather than assuming tools are eff...
Episode 39 — Classify data in practice: sensitivity tiers, handling rules, and real-world exceptions
This episode teaches data classification as an operational system that drives real handling behaviors, not a theoretical labeling exercise. You’ll define classificatio...
Episode 40 — Protect data with access boundaries, encryption decisions, and controlled sharing patterns
This episode explains how to protect data by combining access boundaries, encryption decisions, and controlled sharing patterns that reduce accidental exposure and int...