All Episodes
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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...
Episode 6 — Translate cyber threat intelligence into prioritized detections and response decisions
This episode explains how threat intelligence becomes action inside a SOC, because GSOM questions often test whether you can turn information into a practical detectio...
Episode 7 — Judge threat intel quality: source reliability, confidence, and operational fit
This episode teaches you to evaluate threat intelligence like an analyst and manager, because GSOM expects you to distinguish “interesting” from “actionable” using rel...
Episode 8 — Design defensible security architecture by mapping threats to layered controls
This episode focuses on making architecture choices defensible under audit and incident pressure, which GSOM tests by asking you to pick controls that reduce risk with...
Episode 9 — Spaced Review: recall cyber defense theory, threat intel, defensible architecture quickly
This episode is a structured recall pass designed to lock in high-yield concepts that reappear throughout GSOM, because the exam rewards fast recognition of what categ...
Episode 10 — SOC Design and Planning: assess business goals and security requirements
This episode introduces SOC design as a business-aligned operating model, which GSOM tests by asking whether your SOC choices match organizational risk, constraints, a...
Episode 11 — Turn operational requirements into SOC services, coverage models, and staffing
This episode explains how to translate real operational requirements into a SOC service catalog that the GSOM exam expects you to reason about, including what the SOC ...
Episode 12 — Identify relevant threats and potential attack paths unique to your environment
This episode teaches a practical approach to identifying the threats and attack paths that matter most to your organization, which is a recurring GSOM theme because de...
Episode 13 — Build an organizational risk profile that drives SOC priorities and escalation
This episode focuses on building a risk profile that directly shapes SOC priorities, alert severity logic, and escalation thresholds, because GSOM questions often test...
Episode 14 — Design and staff an effective SOC program that actually runs well
This episode brings SOC design down to the realities that the GSOM exam emphasizes: sustainable operations, clear ownership, and repeatable outcomes under pressure. Yo...
Episode 15 — Spaced Review: replay business context, attack paths, risk, and planning decisions
This episode is a rapid consolidation of SOC planning concepts that appear throughout GSOM, designed to sharpen your ability to pick the best answer when multiple opti...
Episode 16 — Exam Acronyms: High-Yield Audio Reference for the GIAC GSOM
This episode provides a high-yield acronym reference in context, because GSOM questions often hinge on whether you understand what a term implies operationally rather ...
Episode 17 — SOC Tools and Technology: know what common platforms do and why
This episode builds a practical map of common SOC platforms and what problems they solve, because the GSOM exam expects you to select tools based on operational outcom...
Episode 18 — Choose SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and case tooling that supports operations
This episode teaches selection logic for core SOC tooling categories, a frequent GSOM topic because the exam tests whether your choices support detection quality, resp...
Episode 19 — Integrate SOC tools safely so data flows without breaking trust
This episode explains SOC integration as a security and reliability engineering problem, because GSOM questions often probe whether you can connect systems without cre...
Episode 20 — Secure SOC technology with least privilege, hardening, monitoring, and logging
This episode treats SOC tooling as high-value infrastructure that must be protected like production systems, because GSOM expects you to recognize that attackers targe...