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 exposure, criticality, and exploit signals. The course is paired with a companion exam book for deeper reference and an eBook of 1,000 flashcards to reinforce key terms, decision rules, and operational tradeoffs—so you can retain what matters and apply it immediately at work.

This episode teaches how to include physical vulnerabilities in a security program, aligning with exam objectives that explicitly extend vulnerability management beyond purely technical software findings. You will learn how to assess risks across facilities, endpoints, server rooms, wiring closets, and critical environmental dependencies like power, cooling, and fire suppression, and why physical access often becomes system access through tampering, theft, or unauthorized connectivity. We cover best practices such as controlled entry, visitor management, secure storage and disposal, inventory discipline, and coordination with facilities teams so responsibilities are clear and controls are maintained. A scenario explores unauthorized access to a network closet that enables compromise, illustrating how physical controls, monitoring, and incident procedures must work together. Troubleshooting considerations include assumptions that facilities security is “someone else’s job,” weak documentation and evidence for audits, unmanaged devices that move between locations, and continuity plans that ignore environmental failure modes, reinforcing a holistic approach that leaders can govern and prove. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.

This episode explains how to drive remediation workflows that reliably close vulnerabilities and produce proof, a key exam concept because effective programs are judged by remediation outcomes, not discovery volume. You will learn how to assign single-point ownership for each finding, set SLAs that reflect exposure and exploitability, and use standardized ticketing fields that capture required context, affected assets, and acceptance criteria for closure. We cover exception handling with documented rationale, compensating controls, and expiration dates, along with the importance of verification evidence such as rescans, configuration confirmations, and behavioral validation that demonstrates the weakness is actually removed. A scenario follows a critical vulnerability requiring emergency change approval, showing how leaders coordinate teams, preserve service stability, and still meet risk-driven deadlines. Troubleshooting considerations include vague tickets that cause rework, backlog growth due to missing accountability, “fixed” findings that reopen due to weak verification, and reporting that hides SLA breaches, reinforcing disciplined workflow design and measurable performance. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.