All Episodes
Displaying 41 - 60 of 97 in total
Episode 40 — Dependency and Supply Chain Findings
This episode explains how third-party components and supply chain issues create real risk even when an organization’s custom code looks clean. You’ll learn how vulnera...
Episode 41 — Secrets Scanning Concepts
This episode explains why exposed secrets create immediate and outsized risk, and how to recognize, handle, and report secret exposure responsibly. You’ll learn what c...
Episode 42 — Container Vulnerability Concepts
This episode teaches container risk through images, layers, configuration, and runtime behavior, focusing on how weaknesses arise even when the host environment seems ...
Episode 43 — IaC and Configuration Findings
This episode focuses on misconfiguration as a primary source of exposure in modern environments, especially where infrastructure is created and changed through templat...
Episode 44 — Prioritization Cues (CVE/CVSS/CWE/EPSS)
This episode teaches you how to use common vulnerability identifiers and scoring cues to prioritize work without treating any single score as absolute truth. You’ll le...
Episode 45 — Validating Findings Without Breaking Things
This episode focuses on validation as disciplined confirmation that produces credible evidence while protecting stability, safety, and engagement boundaries. You’ll le...
Episode 46 — False Positives and False Negatives
This episode teaches you to treat tool output as a starting point, not a verdict, by understanding why false positives and false negatives occur and how to respond wit...
Episode 47 — OT/ICS Assessment Concepts (High-Level)
This episode introduces industrial and operational technology assessment concepts where safety and availability constraints dominate decision-making. You’ll learn what...
Episode 48 — Physical Security Techniques (Conceptual)
This episode explains how physical access and human behavior can bypass technical controls, and how physical techniques appear in scenario questions as risk indicators...
Episode 49 — Vulnerability Analysis Mini-Scenarios
This episode builds decision-making speed by using short, realistic scenarios that require you to interpret limited evidence, choose a safe next step, and justify why ...
Episode 50 — Attack Planning: From Findings to a Path
This episode teaches you how to transform discovered and validated weaknesses into a controlled attack plan that stays within rules of engagement and produces meaningf...
Episode 51 — Prioritization: High Value Targets and Quick Wins
This episode teaches you to prioritize actions that produce the most leverage, so you consistently choose the next step that reduces risk fastest under realistic const...
Episode 52 — Exploit Selection and Safety
This episode focuses on selecting proof methods that demonstrate risk while protecting stability, confidentiality, and engagement boundaries. You’ll learn how to decid...
Episode 53 — Common Network Weakness Patterns
This episode teaches you to recognize recurring network weaknesses that frequently lead to compromise, using scenario cues that point to misconfiguration, poor hygiene...
Episode 54 — On-Path Attacks (Conceptual)
This episode explains on-path attacks as scenarios where an attacker positions themselves between communicating parties to observe, redirect, or manipulate traffic wit...
Episode 55 — Name Resolution and Relay Concepts
This episode teaches you how name resolution confusion and authentication relay behaviors can enable credential capture or reuse, and how these scenarios differ from b...
Episode 56 — Segmentation and Trust Failures
This episode focuses on how weak segmentation and overly broad trust relationships turn a small foothold into broad access, and how to recognize these failures from sc...
Episode 57 — Service Exploitation Logic
This episode teaches exploitation logic as a disciplined decision process that starts with evidence and constraints, not with tools and excitement. You’ll learn how to...
Episode 58 — Network Attack Mini-Scenarios
This episode uses short network-focused scenarios to build speed and accuracy in choosing the next best action when evidence is limited and constraints matter. You’ll ...
Episode 59 — Password Attacks: Spray vs Stuff vs Brute Force
This episode teaches you to differentiate password spraying, credential stuffing, and brute force attempts based on context, risk, and the protections in place, so you...