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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 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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

Soccer is Ian Edwards favorite topic to talk about so check out his funny weekly football podcast.

You can't blame Carl for enjoying death more than life. That's when he lived the most! Join Carl, as he meets the young adventurous kids that will change his life...rather, his death, forever. Dark forests are explored, old bogs reveal secrets, and life long friendships are forged in the unforgettable tale of A Grave Friend.

In this frighteningly funny mix of Ghostbusters and Monsters Inc, there is only one person who can help fifth grade boy-genius Will Allen when he is beset by fears that have literally come to life: the Great Monster Detective, Bigelow Hawkins! But even with Bigelow's help, along with the use of some very special monster detective tools, can Will learn how to conquer his monsters and uncover the secret of the dreadful Hidden Beast before it's too late?

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 ...

Uniform: Stories of Service is a Trackpads.com podcast devoted to the lived experience of military life. Each episode features a veteran sharing what service looked and felt like from their side of the formation – the training, the day-to-day routines, the small moments with their unit, the deployments, and the quiet stretches in between. These are not scripted histories or celebrity profiles; they are real stories, told in plain language, that capture what it means to wear the uniform in any branch, job, or era. Developed by Trackpads.com and aligned with Dispatch: U.S. Military History ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...