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 the assumption that you’re busy, you’re accountable, and you want material that is direct, usable, and aligned to the ISACA GSOM body of knowledge.
To get the most from Certified: The ISACA GSOM Audio Course, listen with a notebook mindset, even if you never write a thing down. After each lesson, pause and ask one question: what would this look like in my environment, with my people, my tools, and my constraints? If you’re studying for the exam, keep a running list of terms and frameworks you want to revisit, and replay the episodes that feel dense until they start to sound obvious. If you’re using this for the job, pick one improvement to test each week, because small changes compound quickly in operations. Follow the show so new episodes land automatically, and subscribe wherever you get podcasts.
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First Episodes
Episode 1 — Decode the GSOM Exam: structure, scoring, and what success looks like
This episode frames the GIAC GSOM exam as a job-task validation test for SOC leadership and operations, then breaks down how the domains connect so you can study by op...
Episode 2 — Navigate GIAC proctoring rules and policies without test-day surprises
This episode prepares you for the proctored testing experience by treating logistics as a risk-reduction problem, because a preventable rule violation can end an other...
Episode 3 — Build an audio-first study plan mapped to official GSOM objectives
This episode teaches you how to convert the GSOM objectives into a repeatable study system that emphasizes recall, application, and decision quality instead of passive...
Episode 4 — Cyber Defense Theory, Threat Intel, and Defensible Architecture in plain English
This episode builds the foundation that GSOM expects before it tests tooling and process, because the exam assumes you can reason from attacker behavior to defensive d...
Episode 5 — Apply fundamental cyber defense theory to anticipate attacker moves early
This episode shows how to use basic attacker logic to predict what comes next, which is a common GSOM testing angle because mature SOC decisions depend on anticipating...