All Episodes
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Episode 1 — Decode the GCLD exam format, rules, scoring, and timing calmly
This episode breaks down what to expect on the GCLD exam so you can spend your effort on mastery instead of guesswork. You’ll clarify how question styles, timing press...
Episode 2 — Build a spoken study plan that sticks for busy cloud defenders
This episode focuses on turning exam objectives into a realistic plan you can execute alongside a full workload. You’ll learn how to convert broad domains into weekly ...
Episode 3 — Understand shared responsibility clearly across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS realities
This episode explains shared responsibility in a way that supports exam questions and real incident accountability. You’ll define what the provider secures versus what...
Episode 4 — Apply threat-informed defense by matching controls to real cloud adversaries
This episode teaches how to prioritize defenses based on how cloud attackers actually operate, which is central to designing effective control stacks and answering sce...
Episode 5 — Identify high-probability cloud attacker goals, incentives, and target choices
This episode breaks down why cloud environments are targeted and what attackers most often try to achieve once they enter. You’ll map common goals—data theft, service ...
Episode 6 — Track common initial access paths attackers use in public cloud environments
This episode focuses on the entry points attackers prefer in cloud, which directly supports exam questions about exposure reduction and incident hypotheses. You’ll def...
Episode 7 — Recognize privilege escalation patterns unique to cloud identity and policy systems
This episode explains how cloud privilege escalation often happens through identity, policy, and role assumptions rather than local exploitation. You’ll learn core con...
Episode 8 — Contain cloud intrusions fast using isolation, credential resets, and scoped actions
This episode covers containment tactics that work in cloud without causing unnecessary outages or spreading the blast radius. You’ll define containment as limiting att...
Episode 9 — Preserve cloud evidence correctly so investigations remain reliable and defensible
This episode explains how to preserve evidence in cloud environments so your investigation remains trustworthy and your conclusions can withstand scrutiny. You’ll defi...
Episode 10 — Recover safely after cloud compromise with controlled rebuilds and trust restoration
This episode focuses on recovery as a structured process that restores trust, not just service uptime, which is a key theme in cloud defense and exam scenarios. You’ll...
Episode 11 — Master cloud account fundamentals: tenants, subscriptions, projects, and billing boundaries
This episode explains how cloud account structures define ownership, isolation, and accountability, which frequently appears in GCLD questions about governance design...
Episode 12 — Design multi-account strategy that reduces blast radius and simplifies governance
This episode focuses on why multi-account designs are a core cloud defense pattern and how they support exam scenarios involving segmentation, governance, and risk re...
Episode 13 — Structure organizational units and account groupings for predictable security inheritance
This episode teaches how organizational units and account groupings enable consistent policy inheritance, which is a frequent theme in governance and control-mapping e...
Episode 14 — Set up guardrails early with policies that prevent dangerous service configurations
This episode explains how preventative guardrails reduce risk by making unsafe configurations harder or impossible, a key concept for cloud leadership and exam-driven...
Episode 15 — Establish account-level security baselines that survive rapid growth and change
This episode covers how to define and enforce account-level security baselines so controls remain consistent as teams, services, and deployments expand, which aligns ...
Episode 16 — Build IAM foundations that prevent identity sprawl across teams and workloads
This episode explains why IAM foundations are the backbone of cloud security and how identity sprawl creates hidden risk that shows up in both exam scenarios and real ...
Episode 17 — Translate job duties into roles that stay minimal, precise, and auditable
This episode focuses on designing roles that reflect real job duties without drifting into broad, hard-to-audit permissions, a common evaluation point on governance-fo...
Episode 18 — Design least privilege policies that avoid wildcards and unnecessary broad actions
This episode teaches how to build least privilege policies that remain effective under real operational demands, which is central to cloud governance and a frequent so...
Episode 19 — Prevent privilege creep with periodic access reviews and automated entitlement cleanup
This episode explains how privilege creep accumulates in cloud environments and how access reviews and entitlement cleanup reduce long-term risk, a theme that ties go...
Episode 20 — Control root and break-glass access with tight processes and strong monitoring
This episode focuses on root and break-glass access as a high-risk necessity that must be controlled, monitored, and provably limited for both exam expectations and re...