All Episodes
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Welcome to the ISACA CCOA Audio Course
Certified: The ISACA CCOA Audio Course is built for working cybersecurity professionals who need to strengthen their audit and assurance skills without turning study t...
Episode 70 — Exam-Day Tactics: Calm Mental Models for Confident Incident Prioritization (Task 12)
This episode teaches exam-day tactics using calm mental models that help you prioritize incidents and choose the most defensible next step even when questions are inte...
Episode 69 — Essential Terms: Plain-Language Glossary for Fast Recall Under Pressure (Task 5)
This episode provides an essential terms glossary in plain language, designed to strengthen recall under pressure by tying definitions to operational meaning. You will...
Episode 68 — Vulnerability Tracking Discipline: Ownership, SLAs, Verification, and Closure Proof (Task 18)
This episode focuses on vulnerability tracking discipline, where the real security outcome depends on ownership, service level expectations, verification steps, and cr...
Episode 67 — Vulnerability Remediation Strategies: Patch, Mitigate, Accept, or Compensate (Task 2)
This episode explains vulnerability remediation strategies as a set of choices that must match business constraints while still reducing risk in measurable, defensible...
Episode 66 — Vulnerability Identification Skills: CVE Context, Validation Steps, and False Positives (Task 2)
This episode teaches vulnerability identification skills by focusing on how to interpret CVE context, validate whether an exposure is real, and manage false positives ...
Episode 65 — Vulnerability Assessment Basics: Scopes, Methods, Evidence, and Interpreting Findings (Task 2)
This episode covers vulnerability assessment basics with an emphasis on how scope, method, and evidence quality determine whether findings are trustworthy and actionab...
Episode 64 — Apply Industry Best Practices and Frameworks Without Overcomplicating Operations (Task 21)
This episode explains how to apply industry best practices and frameworks in a way that strengthens operations instead of creating paperwork that teams ignore. You wil...
Episode 63 — Identity and Access Management Mastery: Authentication, Authorization, and Least Privilege (Task 4)
This episode builds identity and access management mastery by clearly separating authentication, authorization, and least privilege, then showing how mistakes in each ...
Episode 62 — Choose Controls and Techniques Wisely: Prevent, Detect, Correct, and Deter (Task 4)
This episode teaches how to choose controls and techniques with intent, using the categories of preventive, detective, corrective, and deterrent controls to structure ...
Episode 61 — Contingency Planning That Works: Backups, RTO RPO, and Recovery Priorities (Task 4)
This episode explains contingency planning as an operational capability that determines whether an organization can recover from attacks, outages, and mistakes without...
Episode 60 — Spaced Retrieval Review: Detection and Response From Signal to Lessons Learned (Task 18)
This episode reviews detection and response as a full arc, from the first signal to the final lessons learned, reinforcing the process steps that the exam expects you ...
Episode 59 — Threat Analysis Synthesis: Hypotheses, Root Cause, and Adversary Objectives (Task 15)
This episode teaches threat analysis synthesis, where you transform scattered evidence into hypotheses, test those hypotheses, and arrive at a defensible statement of ...
Episode 58 — Packet Analysis Deep Listening: Decode Protocols and Reconstruct Conversations (Task 10)
This episode explains packet analysis as “deep listening,” where you decode protocols and reconstruct conversations to confirm what actually occurred on the wire. You ...
Episode 57 — Network Traffic Analysis: Flows, Sessions, and Finding the Needle Fast (Task 10)
This episode teaches network traffic analysis using flows and sessions as the main units of reasoning, helping you find meaningful patterns quickly when time and data ...
Episode 56 — Malware Analysis Essentials: Static Clues, Behavioral Signals, and Scope Estimation (Task 10)
This episode explains malware analysis essentials for analysts who need to make informed decisions quickly without becoming reverse engineers. You will learn the diffe...
Episode 55 — Forensic Analysis in Practice: Timelines, Artifacts, and Proving What Happened (Task 14)
This episode focuses on practical forensic thinking: building timelines, identifying artifacts, and proving what happened using evidence that can stand up to scrutiny....
Episode 54 — Forensic Analysis Fundamentals: Preservation, Collection, Integrity, and Chain of Custody (Task 14)
This episode introduces forensic analysis fundamentals that support credible investigations and defensible outcomes, especially when incidents have legal, regulatory, ...
Episode 53 — Incident Handling End to End: Classification, Escalation, Notification, and Handoffs (Task 9)
This episode explains incident handling as an end-to-end process that must remain consistent under stress, with clear classification, escalation logic, notification tr...
Episode 52 — Incident Containment Choices: Isolate, Block, Disable, or Deceive Safely (Task 13)
This episode teaches how to make containment choices that reduce attacker capability quickly while minimizing unnecessary business disruption and preserving evidence f...