Episode 3 — Map today’s public cloud landscape risks without vendor blind spots

This episode builds a vendor-neutral threat and risk map for public cloud so you can answer exam questions that test principles, not brand trivia. You’ll frame the cloud as a set of shared control planes, identity systems, network abstractions, and managed services that shift failure modes compared to on-prem. We’ll define common risk categories—misconfiguration, identity over-permissioning, exposed management interfaces, weak logging, and insecure service-to-service trust—and tie each to concrete attacker outcomes like data access, persistence, and privilege escalation. You’ll work through a scenario where a team “moves fast” with default settings and later discovers that visibility and boundaries were never established, making incident response slower and audit evidence weaker. The goal is to recognize patterns that transfer across providers and to spot distractors that over-emphasize one platform’s terminology. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.