All Episodes
Displaying 41 - 60 of 88 in total
Episode 41 — Design security-by-default architectures using managed services and least-management surfaces
This episode explains how to design cloud architectures that are secure by default, reducing reliance on constant manual hardening and minimizing the attack surface cr...
Episode 42 — Operationalize secure landing zones that standardize identity, logging, and network controls
This episode focuses on secure landing zones as the foundational environment where accounts, identity, logging, and network baselines are established before workloads ...
Episode 43 — Extend built-in controls consistently across single-cloud and multi-cloud environments
This episode teaches how to maintain consistent security outcomes when environments span one cloud provider or multiple providers with different native capabilities an...
Episode 44 — Cloud Logging Fundamentals: choose log sources that answer real investigation questions
This episode explains how to choose cloud log sources based on the questions you must answer during incidents, audits, and operational troubleshooting, which is a comm...
Episode 45 — Capture identity logs that reveal misuse, privilege changes, and suspicious sign-ins
This episode focuses on identity logs as a primary signal for cloud compromise, because many attacks begin and expand through account misuse rather than classic networ...
Episode 46 — Capture control-plane logs that show configuration changes and risky administrative actions
This episode explains why control-plane logs are essential for governance, incident response, and exam questions that ask you to reason about configuration change hist...
Episode 47 — Capture data access logs that reveal sensitive reads, writes, deletes, and sharing
This episode focuses on data access logging as a way to detect and prove what happened to sensitive information, which is a recurring theme in cloud leadership and GCL...
Episode 48 — Protect log integrity using centralized storage, immutability controls, and tight permissions
This episode explains how logs become meaningful evidence only when their integrity is protected, which is directly relevant to exam questions on audit readiness and i...
Episode 49 — Set retention intentionally so logs remain useful across incident and audit timelines
This episode focuses on retention as a strategic decision that balances investigation needs, compliance expectations, and operational cost, which is a common governanc...
Episode 50 — Normalize logs for correlation so patterns emerge across accounts and regions
This episode explains how normalization improves detection and investigation by making diverse log sources comparable, searchable, and correlatable across a large clou...
Episode 51 — Cloud networking technology: understand VPC or VNET primitives and routing behaviors
This episode builds the cloud networking foundation the GCLD exam expects by clarifying what core primitives actually do in practice, including address spaces, subnets...
Episode 52 — Segment networks intentionally to reduce blast radius and limit lateral movement
This episode explains segmentation as a deliberate risk-reduction strategy, not just a diagram exercise, and it connects directly to GCLD questions about architecture,...
Episode 53 — Control ingress with security groups, firewalls, and service-specific access policies
This episode focuses on inbound access control as a primary defense layer and shows how the exam expects you to choose the right control for the right exposure point. ...
Episode 54 — Control egress to reduce exfiltration paths and limit command-and-control reachability
This episode explains why outbound traffic control matters in cloud environments and how it changes attacker economics by making exfiltration and command-and-control h...
Episode 55 — Design private connectivity patterns that replace public exposure with controlled paths
This episode teaches how private connectivity reduces attack surface by removing unnecessary internet exposure while still enabling required access between services, n...
Episode 56 — Encrypt network traffic properly across regions, services, and hybrid connections
This episode explains how to ensure confidentiality and integrity for data in transit across complex cloud paths, a topic that appears on the GCLD exam as both a techn...
Episode 57 — Secure DNS and name resolution so attackers cannot redirect trust or hide access
This episode focuses on DNS as a trust system and shows why it becomes both an attack tool and a defense dependency in cloud environments. You’ll learn how name resolu...
Episode 58 — Validate network design continuously by testing intended paths versus actual reachability
This episode teaches how to verify network security outcomes with evidence, not assumptions, by comparing what the design says should happen to what packets can actual...
Episode 59 — Securing cloud networks: prevent misroutes, shadow paths, and accidental trust relationships
This episode focuses on the subtle network failures that create major security problems, including misroutes that send traffic through unintended places, shadow paths ...
Episode 60 — Reduce exposure from load balancers, gateways, and proxies with strong defaults
This episode explains how edge components like load balancers, gateways, and proxies often become the real perimeter in cloud, making their default configuration choic...