Certified: The CompTIA PenTest+ (Plus) Audio Course

Certified: The CompTIA PenTest+ (Plus) Audio Course

Jason Edwards

Episodes 97
Avg. Duration 17m
Activity Dormant
Since Jan 2026
Latest Episode Jan 2026

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Hourly
Format
Serial
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About This Podcast

This PrepCast series is a comprehensive, audio-first preparation program designed to help learners build the judgment, terminology fluency, and decision-making skills required for modern penetration testing scenarios. Rather than focusing on tools, commands, or hands-on labs, the series emphasizes how to think like a tester under real-world constraints: interpreting scope and rules of engagement, selecting safe and defensible next steps, validating findings responsibly, and communicating risk in clear business-aligned language. Each episode is structured to reinforce engagement flow, from planning and reconnaissance through exploitation decisions, post-exploitation considerations, and professional reporting. Across the full sequence, listeners develop a repeatable mental framework for analyzing technical situations, prioritizing actions, avoiding common traps, and translating observations into meaningful outcomes. The series mirrors how security work is evaluated in practice, where correctness depends not only on technical knowledge, but also on ethics, authorization, safety, and impact. By the end of the program, learners are equipped to recognize patterns quickly, justify decisions confidently, and apply consistent reasoning that transfers directly to both certification scenarios and real penetration testing engagements.

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Recent Episodes

Episode 96 — Final Exam Readiness Drill (Audio Practice)

Jan 06, 2026 15m Transcript

This episode provides a structured audio drill designed to improve decision speed and consistency by repeatedly practicing the same recognition and selection steps used in scenario questions. You’ll…

Episode 95 — Executive Summary That Doesn’t Suck

Jan 06, 2026 14m Transcript

This episode teaches you to write executive summaries that drive decisions by focusing on top risks, business impact, and clear actions, rather than repeating technical logs. You’ll learn how to…

Episode 94 — Building the Attack Narrative

Jan 06, 2026 15m Transcript

This episode teaches you to build an attack narrative that connects technical actions to business meaning, turning scattered steps into a coherent story that supports prioritization and remediation.…

Episode 93 — Cleanup and Restoration

Jan 06, 2026 15m Transcript

This episode focuses on cleanup and restoration as the final responsibility of a disciplined engagement, ensuring systems are left stable and risk is not increased by lingering artifacts. You’ll…

Episode 92 — Data Handling and Evidence

Jan 06, 2026 14m Transcript

This episode teaches evidence handling as a core professional competency that protects clients, supports defensible findings, and reduces harm while still documenting meaningful risk. You’ll learn…

Episode 91 — Staging and Exfiltration Concepts

Jan 06, 2026 15m Transcript

This episode explains staging and exfiltration as controlled data-handling decisions that must balance evidence needs, confidentiality, monitoring, and engagement constraints. You’ll learn staging as…

Episode 90 — Common Lateral Paths (SMB/RDP/SSH/WinRM/WMI)

Jan 06, 2026 16m Transcript

This episode teaches you to interpret common movement-enabling services conceptually so you can recognize what open ports and service clues imply about possible access paths and risk. You’ll learn…

Episode 89 — Pivoting Concepts

Jan 06, 2026 15m Transcript

This episode explains pivoting as extending reach through a controlled foothold to access networks or services that are not directly reachable from your original position. You’ll learn why pivoting…

Episode 88 — Lateral Movement Logic

Jan 06, 2026 15m Transcript

This episode teaches lateral movement as a purposeful decision process that depends on objectives, prerequisites, and trust boundaries, not as a default “keep moving” mindset. You’ll learn the…

Episode 87 — Credential Reuse and Expansion

Jan 06, 2026 16m Transcript

This episode focuses on how credential reuse turns a single discovery into broad access, and how to reason about expansion safely under scope, safety, and evidence-handling constraints. You’ll learn…

Episode 86 — Persistence Families

Jan 06, 2026 16m Transcript

This episode teaches persistence as a risk and control topic, focusing on the main ways long-term access is maintained and how those mechanisms show up in scenario descriptions. You’ll learn…

Episode 85 — Post-Exploitation Goals

Jan 06, 2026 14m Transcript

This episode explains what to do after gaining access in a way that remains controlled, authorized, and focused on demonstrating meaningful impact rather than maximizing chaos. You’ll learn…

Episode 84 — Automation and BAS Concepts

Jan 06, 2026 18m Transcript

This episode teaches automation and breach-and-attack simulation concepts as structured ways to improve repeatability, measurement, and control validation without relying on ad hoc testing. You’ll…

Episode 83 — AI-Related Attacks (High-Level)

Jan 06, 2026 16m Transcript

This episode explains AI-related risks in scenario-friendly terms by treating them as input manipulation, access control, and data exposure problems rather than as mysterious model magic. You’ll…

Episode 82 — Specialized Systems: OT, NFC, RFID, Bluetooth

Jan 06, 2026 18m Transcript

This episode introduces specialized environments and technologies that appear in scenario questions as constrained systems with unique risks and operational expectations. You’ll learn OT constraints…

Episode 81 — Mobile Attack Concepts

Jan 06, 2026 17m Transcript

This episode explains mobile risk through a practical lens, focusing on how apps handle data, permissions, communication, and device posture rather than on device-specific tooling. You’ll learn where…

Episode 80 — Social Engineering Patterns

Jan 06, 2026 17m Transcript

This episode teaches social engineering as a predictable set of persuasion patterns that exploit trust, urgency, and process gaps to bypass technical controls. You’ll learn how tactics like phishing,…

Episode 79 — Wireless Attack Patterns

Jan 06, 2026 18m Transcript

This episode explains common wireless attack patterns as trust and configuration problems, helping you interpret scenario clues without needing hands-on tooling. You’ll learn concepts such as evil…

Episode 78 — Cloud Attack Patterns: Storage and Metadata

Jan 06, 2026 18m Transcript

This episode teaches two major cloud risk themes, exposed storage and metadata access, and how each can lead from data leakage to broader compromise. You’ll learn common storage exposure patterns…

Episode 77 — Cloud Attack Patterns: Identity First

Jan 06, 2026 17m Transcript

This episode explains why cloud compromise often begins with permissions and trust relationships rather than with traditional network exploits, and how to recognize identity-first attack patterns…

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