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 first, where misconfigurations hide, and how to constrain blast radius without slowing delivery. If you want deeper reference material, a companion book expands the same concepts in a structured format, and a flash cards book supports fast review and retention for day-to-day work, interviews, and certification prep.
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First Episodes
Episode 1 — Decode the GPCS exam format, timing, and scoring with calm precision
This episode explains how the GIAC GPCS exam is structured so you can plan your study and test-day execution like an engineering problem instead of a stress event. You...
Episode 2 — Master GIAC testing rules, open-book boundaries, and proctoring realities
This episode focuses on the operational rules that shape your risk on exam day, because a correct answer doesn’t help if you trigger a policy issue or lose time to pre...
Episode 3 — Map today’s public cloud landscape risks without vendor blind spots
This episode builds a vendor-neutral threat and risk map for public cloud so you can answer exam questions that test principles, not brand trivia. You’ll frame the clo...
Episode 4 — Compare AWS, Azure, and GCP security strengths and weak defaults
This episode compares the big three cloud providers through the lens the exam cares about: what each does well, what defaults can betray you, and how the same security...
Episode 5 — Spot shared responsibility gaps that quietly create real cloud exposure
This episode clarifies shared responsibility in the way that prevents real incidents: not as a slogan, but as a control ownership model you can apply to any service. Y...