Episode 63 — Implement Comprehensive Supply Chain Risk Management Practices

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Certified: The ISC2 CSSLP Audio Course

Dr. Jason Edwards

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This audio-only CSSLP prep course is built for busy security professionals who want to study anywhere, without a screen. Across 70 tightly focused episodes, you’ll walk the full Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional exam blueprint, from requirements and architecture to implementation, testing, operations, and supply chain risk. Each episode is structured as a guided journey: clear concepts, concrete examples, pitfalls to avoid, and quick mental rehearsals you can follow along with in real time. You’ll hear practical takes on exam strategy, secure design principles, SDLC integration, threat modeling, metrics, documentation, incident response, and more, all in plain language. Recap checkpoints, glossary episodes, and acronym refreshers reinforce what you’ve learned so it sticks when you sit for the exam. Whether you’re commuting, at the gym, or in between meetings, this podcast turns small pockets of time into steady progress toward your CSSLP.

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Episode 63 — Implement Comprehensive Supply Chain Risk Management Practices

Certified: The ISC2 CSSLP Audio Course

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Episode 63 — Implement Comprehensive Supply Chain Risk Management Practices

Software today depends on a layered supply chain of cloud platforms, third-party services, open-source components, and commercial products, and the CSSLP exam expects you to treat this web of dependencies as a primary risk focus. This episode introduces the core steps of supply chain risk management: inventorying suppliers and components, assessing criticality, understanding where they are hosted, and determining how failure or compromise would affect your systems. You will hear how to gather security attestations, control mappings, and audit results from suppliers, and how to place them in the context of your own requirements and obligations. The conversation also explains how regulatory expectations and industry guidance are increasingly explicit about managing vendor risks, making this topic essential for exam success.

Comprehensive practice means integrating supply chain thinking into design, procurement, operations, and retirement decisions rather than treating it as a one-time checklist. Examples describe how to require software bills of materials, signature verification, and provenance attestations as conditions of use, and how to monitor vulnerability advisories and incident reports affecting your dependencies. Scenarios examine onboarding processes that gate new suppliers on security reviews, recurring assessments that revisit controls and performance, and termination procedures that ensure data return or destruction and revocation of access. You also see how tabletop exercises can model supplier outages or major vulnerabilities, driving preparation for substitution, failover, or compensating controls. Exam items in this area reward answers that demonstrate continuous, evidence-based oversight of suppliers and components, rather than blind trust or purely contractual assurances. 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.