CISSP Cyber Training Podcast - CISSP Training Program

Send us a textCheck us out at:  https://www.cisspcybertraining.com/Get access to 360 FREE CISSP Questions:  https://www.cisspcybertraining.com/offers/dzHKVcDB/checkoutGet access to my FREE CISSP Self-Study Essentials Videos:  https://www.cisspcybertraining.com/offers/KzBKKouvWhat happens when your “helper” becomes your riskiest insider? We dig into the fast-approaching reality of AI agents acting with superuser access, approving transactions, and even signing contracts—creating doppelganger identities that expand attack surfaces in unexpected ways. Drawing from recent headlines and real operations experience, we break down how least privilege, identity governance, and auditable workflows can keep autonomy from turning into an open door.From there, we get tactical with CISSP-grade scenarios that force hard choices under pressure. An unauthorized “emergency” firewall change takes down a service—how do you keep agility without chaos? A SOC drowns in 10,000 alerts a day—what truly cuts noise while catching multi-stage attacks? We make the case for SOAR playbooks that enrich, correlate, and act, turning acronym soup into a coherent response engine. When teams push back on PAM, we show how to implement full recording and vaulting without slowing incidents by using auto-approved, time-bound emergency access and strict post-incident review.Then we navigate the thorniest problem in modern defense: patching during active exploitation when fixes break critical APIs. Instead of hair-on-fire deployments or risky delays, we map compensating controls—WAF hardening, segmentation, and targeted monitoring—while working toward a compatible patch path. And when a high-value database shows 45 days of persistence, we explain how to capture live memory and disk snapshots, coordinate isolation during a maintenance window, and communicate risk tradeoffs to leadership without tipping attackers or losing evidence.If you want clear, applied guidance on AI insider risk, emergency change control, alert fatigue, PAM adoption, patch strategy, and forensics versus uptime, this conversation delivers practical answers you can put to work today. Subscribe, share with your team, and leave a review—what decision here changed how you’ll handle your next incident?Gain exclusive access to 360 FREE CISSP Practice Questions at FreeCISSPQuestions.com and have them delivered directly to your inbox! Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to strengthen your CISSP exam preparation and boost your chances of certification success. Join now and start your journey toward CISSP mastery today!

Send us a textCheck us out at:  https://www.cisspcybertraining.com/Get access to 360 FREE CISSP Questions:  https://www.cisspcybertraining.com/offers/dzHKVcDB/checkoutGet access to my FREE CISSP Self-Study Essentials Videos:  https://www.cisspcybertraining.com/offers/KzBKKouvYour TV, camera, or even a smart bird feeder can be a beachhead for attackers. We dive into the Kimwolf botnet and expose how low-cost IoT turns into residential proxies that scan, DDoS, and quietly pivot across your home or enterprise network. From weak defaults and exposed ADB to shady apps, we call out the telltale signs and the simple architecture changes that shut the door: dedicated IoT VLANs, strict egress controls, and logging that actually sees what leaves your network.Then we switch gears into CISSP Domain 7.1 and break down what a defensible investigation looks like when the alarms go off. Evidence collection starts with a mindset: don’t touch originals, document everything, and assume you’ll need to defend the process in court. We cover IOCE-aligned practices, creating bit-for-bit copies with hashes, and when to engage a forensic retainer so you are not building a plan mid-incident. Memory captures, media recovery, network telemetry, and software analysis all play a role in reconstructing the timeline and proving what happened.Legal readiness sits at the core. We talk about involving counsel early, understanding insurer-approved panels, and mapping out rules of engagement for interviews and device access in your IR policy and onboarding. We clarify evidence authorities—voluntary surrender, subpoenas, and search warrants—plus the three evidence types and how chain of custody preserves admissibility. By the end, you’ll have a clear blueprint: segment IoT, monitor outbound traffic, and run investigations that survive scrutiny.If this helped sharpen your security playbook, subscribe, share with your team, and leave a quick review to help others find the show.Gain exclusive access to 360 FREE CISSP Practice Questions at FreeCISSPQuestions.com and have them delivered directly to your inbox! Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to strengthen your CISSP exam preparation and boost your chances of certification success. Join now and start your journey toward CISSP mastery today!

Send us a textReady to turn CISSP Domain 3.5 into practical moves you can deploy on Monday? We unpack how real SOC teams apply microsegmentation, identity-aware controls, and targeted inspection to crush lateral movement without dragging performance. Along the way, we demystify AI’s role: where detection engineering benefits from crisp use cases, how Tier 1 triage speeds up, and why models still need human oversight and rigorous validation to stay trustworthy.We also step through common network design traps that drain budgets and weaken defenses. VLAN sprawl looks tidy on paper but collapses under hybrid cloud dynamics. Central chokepoints promise control yet introduce latency and single failure domains. The smarter path is selective inline inspection where risk is highest, strong encryption everywhere else, and host-based enforcement that understands identity and context after decryption. If you’ve been tempted to collapse controls into one “do-everything” appliance, we lay out the hidden cost: a fragile core that turns into a single point of failure when you need it most.To ground the theory, we walk through scenario-style questions that mirror real decisions security leaders face: stopping east-west movement, balancing HA with inspection, drawing zero trust boundaries that don’t assume implicit trust, and enforcing policy on encrypted traffic. You’ll leave with patterns you can adapt immediately: start small, define use cases, validate outputs like code, and iterate with tight feedback loops. Whether you run a SOC, partner with an MSP, or are targeting a first-time CISSP pass, this conversation gives you a clear map from concept to control. If this helped, follow the show, share it with a teammate, and leave a quick review so others can find it too.Gain exclusive access to 360 FREE CISSP Practice Questions at FreeCISSPQuestions.com and have them delivered directly to your inbox! Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to strengthen your CISSP exam preparation and boost your chances of certification success. Join now and start your journey toward CISSP mastery today!

Send us a textA neighboring Wi‑Fi, a handful of stolen credentials, and a quiet leap into a high‑value network—the kind of pivot that sounds cinematic until you realize how practical it is. We unpack that playbook and turn it into concrete defenses you can deploy across your environment, from client endpoints and browsers to databases, servers, and industrial control systems.We start at the edge, where phishing, drive‑by downloads, and man‑in‑the‑middle still win far too often. You’ll get a clear blueprint for upgrading endpoint security with EDR, strict patching, and browser hardening, plus when to retire or sandbox legacy applets and how to stop sensitive data bleeding from local caches. From there we map the landscape of modern data platforms: the internal, conceptual, and external layers of databases; the resilience of distributed DBs; the interoperability and pitfalls of ODBC; and the security tradeoffs between NoSQL flexibility and relational ACID guarantees. Expect practical guardrails like TLS on every link, parameterized queries for SQLi defense, and role‑based access with tight segregation of duties.Finally, we focus on servers and ICS, where downtime costs real money and, in OT, can impact safety. Learn how to prioritize hardening and patching without breaking legacy apps, isolate critical services to reduce blast radius, centralize logging to a SIEM, and apply the Purdue model to segment OT from IT. We share tested moves for OT environments—firewalls and DMZs, constrained remote access, realistic backup and recovery plans—and explain how to integrate safety and cybersecurity so alarms, procedures, and people work as one.If you find this valuable, subscribe, share it with a teammate who owns Wi‑Fi or databases, and leave a quick review telling us the first control you’ll implement this week. Your feedback helps more practitioners discover tools that actually reduce risk.Gain exclusive access to 360 FREE CISSP Practice Questions at FreeCISSPQuestions.com and have them delivered directly to your inbox! Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to strengthen your CISSP exam preparation and boost your chances of certification success. Join now and start your journey toward CISSP mastery today!

Send us a textOne unauthenticated request should not be all it takes to compromise your app—but with React-To-Shell, that’s the reality many teams are facing. We unpack what this vulnerability hits across React server components and Next.js app router setups, why default configs can be enough to fall, and how active threat actors are already abusing it. From construction to entertainment to cloud-native platforms, the exposure is broad, the proofs are reliable and the window for safe procrastination has closed.We share a clear action plan: upgrade affected versions now, rotate secrets that touch your React servers, and turn on relevant WAF protections from providers like Cloudflare and Microsoft. Then we widen the lens to the bigger lesson: security testing that looks mature on paper can still miss API edges and misconfigurations for months. You’ll hear why credentialed vulnerability scans with passive monitoring are the lowest-impact way to surface issues in production, how “medium” findings can chain into critical compromise, and when external assessors deliver the most value for resilience rather than routine compliance.To make testing count without breaking customer-facing services, we walk through purple teaming—pairing red team attacks with blue team collaboration—to validate both technical controls and security awareness. We cover scoping rules that prevent disruption, scenarios that mirror current tradecraft, and practical CISSP takeaways for domain coverage on assessments, software security and third-party risk. If your web stack touches React, or your program relies on scans and annual pen tests alone, this is your checklist and your nudge to act.If this helped you prioritize what to fix first, subscribe, share with a teammate and leave a quick review—it helps more security folks find us and harden faster.Gain exclusive access to 360 FREE CISSP Practice Questions at FreeCISSPQuestions.com and have them delivered directly to your inbox! Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to strengthen your CISSP exam preparation and boost your chances of certification success. Join now and start your journey toward CISSP mastery today!