Certified: The CRISC Audio Course
Episodes
Welcome to the ISACA CRISC
14 Oct 2025
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Dive into a fast, no-fluff overview of what this podcast delivers, who it’s for, and how each episode helps you level up with practical, real-world ...
Episode 93: Evaluating Business Practices Alignment with Risk Management and Security Frameworks
05 Jul 2025
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Alignment is the final step toward risk maturity. In this capstone episode, we explore how to evaluate whether business practices support or undermine...
Episode 92: Reporting Control Information and Supporting Risk-Based Decisions
05 Jul 2025
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Controls are only valuable if their performance is understood. This episode focuses on how to report control-related data—such as testing results, K...
Episode 91: Reporting Risk Information to Stakeholders
05 Jul 2025
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Clear, timely risk reporting supports informed decision-making at every level. In this episode, we explain how to tailor risk reports for different au...
Episode 90: Reviewing Control Assessments for Effectiveness and Maturity
05 Jul 2025
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Mature organizations regularly review their control environment. In this episode, we cover how CRISC professionals assess whether controls are effecti...
Episode 89: Monitoring and Analyzing KPIs and KCIs
05 Jul 2025
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Once performance and control indicators are established, continuous monitoring is essential. This episode explains how to track KPI and KCI trends, de...
Episode 88: Collaborating with Control Owners on KPIs and KCIs Identification
05 Jul 2025
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Key Performance Indicators and Key Control Indicators help measure the health of processes and controls. In this episode, we discuss how CRISC profess...
Episode 87: Monitoring and Analyzing Key Risk Indicators (KRIs)
05 Jul 2025
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KRIs are only useful when monitored and interpreted correctly. This episode walks through how to track, evaluate, and act on risk indicator trends. Yo...
Episode 86: Defining and Establishing Key Risk Indicators (KRIs)
05 Jul 2025
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Key Risk Indicators help detect emerging risks before they escalate. In this episode, you’ll learn how to define KRIs that are specific, measurable,...
Episode 85: Validating Execution of Risk Responses Against Risk Treatment Plans
05 Jul 2025
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Risk response without verification is a recipe for gaps. This episode teaches you how to validate that risk treatment plans have been carried out as i...
Episode 84: Collaborating with Control Owners: Control Implementation and Maintenance
05 Jul 2025
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A strong design isn’t enough—controls must be implemented and sustained. This episode shows how to support control owners through implementation, ...
Episode 83: Collaborating with Control Owners: Control Selection and Design
05 Jul 2025
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Designing effective controls is a team effort. In this episode, we focus on how to work with control owners to select appropriate control types and de...
Episode 82: Collaborating with Risk Owners: Developing Risk Treatment Plans
05 Jul 2025
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Risk treatment plans must reflect ownership, accountability, and alignment with the organization's overall strategy. This episode walks through how CR...
Episode 81: Facilitating Stakeholder Selection of Recommended Risk Responses
05 Jul 2025
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Stakeholder engagement is critical when selecting the most appropriate response to a risk. In this episode, we explore how CRISC professionals guide d...
Episode 80: Reviewing Risk and Control Analysis for Gaps Assessment
05 Jul 2025
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After controls and risks have been analyzed, gaps become clear. This episode focuses on reviewing results to identify missing safeguards, ineffective ...
Episode 79: Identifying and Evaluating Effectiveness of Existing Controls
05 Jul 2025
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Controls are only valuable if they work. In this episode, we explain how to identify current controls across systems and processes and how to evaluate...
Episode 78: Conducting a Comprehensive IT Risk Assessment
05 Jul 2025
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Risk assessments must be structured, repeatable, and aligned with business needs. This episode walks through how to conduct a comprehensive assessment...
Episode 77: Promoting a Risk-Aware Culture through Security Awareness Training
05 Jul 2025
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Culture shapes risk behavior. In this episode, we look at how CRISC professionals help promote a risk-aware culture by supporting training programs an...
Episode 76: Facilitating Identification of Risk Appetite and Tolerance
05 Jul 2025
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This episode focuses on helping stakeholders define and document risk appetite and tolerance—core elements of strategic alignment. You’ll learn ho...
Episode 75: Establishing and Maintaining the IT Risk Register
05 Jul 2025
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The risk register is a living document that tracks an organization’s risk exposure. In this episode, we explore how to build and maintain a complete...
Episode 74: Establishing Accountability Through Risk and Control Ownership
05 Jul 2025
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Without clear ownership, risk management breaks down. This episode shows you how to assign responsibility for risks and controls within the organizati...
Episode 73: Evaluating Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Risks to Develop IT Risk Scenarios
05 Jul 2025
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Risk scenarios make risks measurable and actionable. This episode explains how to build effective scenarios using threat and vulnerability information...
Episode 72: Identifying Threats and Vulnerabilities to People, Processes, and Technology
05 Jul 2025
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Threats and vulnerabilities are the building blocks of risk—and CRISC candidates must assess all three layers: people, processes, and technology. Th...
Episode 71: Identifying Potential or Realized Impacts of IT Risk
05 Jul 2025
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Understanding how IT risks impact business objectives is central to the CRISC exam. In this episode, we explore how to recognize both potential and ac...
Episode 70: Collecting and Reviewing Organization’s Business and IT Information
05 Jul 2025
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This supporting task is foundational: you can’t manage risk without understanding your environment. In this episode, you’ll learn how to gather an...
Episode 69: Domain 4 Review: Key Takeaways and Exam Tips
05 Jul 2025
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Domain 4 brings together technical and organizational elements of risk—this review episode ties them all together. We recap core topics including IT...
Episode 68: Data Privacy and Protection Principles
05 Jul 2025
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Privacy is no longer optional—it’s a regulatory and reputational imperative. This episode explores core privacy concepts, including data subject r...
Episode 67: Business Continuity Management Concepts and Practices
05 Jul 2025
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Business Continuity Management (BCM) ensures critical operations continue under adverse conditions. This episode breaks down BCM elements such as cont...
Episode 66: Information Security Awareness Training
05 Jul 2025
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People are often the weakest link in risk management. In this episode, we cover how security awareness training programs reduce human error and increa...
Episode 65: Information Security Concepts, Frameworks, and Standards
05 Jul 2025
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A solid grasp of security frameworks is essential for risk alignment. This episode introduces key information security concepts—confidentiality, int...
Episode 64: Emerging Technologies and Associated Risks
05 Jul 2025
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New technologies can bring competitive advantage—but also new risk. This episode discusses emerging trends such as cloud computing, AI, blockchain, ...
Episode 63: System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Essentials
05 Jul 2025
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CRISC candidates must understand how security and risk controls integrate with the SDLC. In this episode, we walk through the major phases of system d...
Episode 62: Data Lifecycle Management Principles
05 Jul 2025
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Data carries risk throughout its entire lifecycle—from creation to deletion. This episode explains the stages of data lifecycle management, how rete...
Episode 61: Disaster Recovery Management (DRM)
05 Jul 2025
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Disaster Recovery Management is critical to ensuring operational continuity during and after unexpected events. This episode explores the components o...
Episode 60: Project Management in the IT Environment
05 Jul 2025
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Every IT project introduces risk—and every CRISC candidate must be prepared to assess it. This episode covers how project management methodologies l...
Episode 59: IT Operations: Problem and Incident Management
05 Jul 2025
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Problem and incident management are essential components of operational resilience. This episode explains how organizations detect, document, and reso...
Episode 58: IT Operations: Change and Asset Management
05 Jul 2025
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Change and asset management processes are central to minimizing IT risk. In this episode, we examine how structured change control reduces service dis...
Episode 57: Enterprise Architecture Principles
05 Jul 2025
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A strong enterprise architecture provides structure and clarity for risk-informed IT decisions. This episode explores the foundational components of e...
Episode 56: CRISC Domain 4 Overview: Information Technology and Security Alignment
05 Jul 2025
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Domain 4 focuses on the integration of IT and security into enterprise risk management. This episode introduces you to the key topics within this doma...
Episode 55: Domain 3 Review: Key Takeaways and Exam Tips
05 Jul 2025
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Domain 3 brings together risk response, control management, and stakeholder reporting—and this review episode reinforces the most tested concepts ac...
Episode 54: Defining and Utilizing Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and Key Control Indicators (KCIs)
05 Jul 2025
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KRIs and KCIs are essential tools for proactive risk and control management. In this episode, we examine how to define, track, and apply these indicat...
Episode 53: Understanding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
05 Jul 2025
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Key Performance Indicators help organizations measure the success of their processes, including risk and control functions. This episode dives into KP...
Episode 52: Risk and Control Reporting Techniques: Heatmaps, Scorecards, and Dashboards
05 Jul 2025
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Visual reporting tools turn data into decisions. This episode explains how heatmaps, scorecards, and dashboards are used to present risk and control i...
Episode 51: Techniques for Control Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
05 Jul 2025
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Effective risk professionals don’t just implement controls—they monitor and refine them continuously. This episode explores how organizations use ...
Episode 50: Techniques for Risk Monitoring and Validation
05 Jul 2025
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Monitoring keeps risk management alive and responsive. This episode walks you through key techniques for tracking risk levels, validating changes in t...
Episode 49: Data Collection, Aggregation, Analysis, and Validation
05 Jul 2025
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Effective risk reporting begins with the right data. In this episode, we explain how to collect, organize, and validate risk and control data from acr...
Episode 48: Developing and Executing Risk Treatment Plans
05 Jul 2025
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Once risk response decisions are made, treatment plans bring them to life. This episode shows you how to create actionable plans that assign ownership...
Episode 47: Control Testing and Effectiveness Evaluation
05 Jul 2025
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Testing is how we know a control works. In this episode, you’ll learn the methodologies used to validate control effectiveness—from walkthroughs a...
Episode 46: Control Implementation Best Practices
05 Jul 2025
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A well-designed control must be implemented carefully to succeed. This episode outlines how to roll out controls across people, processes, and technol...
Episode 45: Control Design, Selection, and Analysis
05 Jul 2025
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A poorly chosen or badly designed control can create more risk than it mitigates. This episode focuses on selecting controls that align with business ...
Episode 44: Control Types, Standards, and Frameworks
05 Jul 2025
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Understanding the full landscape of control types is critical for treatment planning. This episode introduces preventive, detective, corrective, and c...
Episode 43: Managing Emerging Risks
05 Jul 2025
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CRISC candidates must be able to anticipate and respond to new threats as technologies and environments evolve. In this episode, we explore how to def...
Episode 42: Issue, Finding, and Exception Management
05 Jul 2025
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Every organization faces control gaps and compliance issues—what matters is how they’re addressed. This episode explains the difference between is...
Episode 41: Managing and Monitoring Third-Party Risks
05 Jul 2025
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Identifying third-party risks is only the first step—effective risk professionals must also manage and monitor them throughout the vendor lifecycle....
Episode 40: Third-Party Risk Identification and Evaluation
05 Jul 2025
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Many IT risks arise from third-party relationships, and this episode explores how to evaluate them properly. You’ll learn how to assess vendors, clo...
Episode 39: Assigning Risk and Control Ownership
05 Jul 2025
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Risk management is a team effort, and assigning ownership ensures accountability. This episode dives into the process of identifying the right owners ...
Episode 38: Implementing and Documenting Risk Response Decisions
05 Jul 2025
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Once a risk response has been selected, execution is key. This episode explains how to turn response strategies into action plans, how to document dec...
Episode 37: Understanding Risk Treatment Options (Accept, Mitigate, Transfer, Avoid)
05 Jul 2025
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Risk treatment is a core function of CRISC professionals. This episode covers the four primary risk response strategies and explains how to apply them...
Episode 36: CRISC Domain 3 Overview: Risk Response and Reporting Essentials
05 Jul 2025
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Domain 3 shifts the focus from identifying risk to acting on it. In this overview, we explain how CRISC candidates are expected to understand treatmen...
Episode 35: Domain 2 Review: Key Takeaways and Exam Tips
05 Jul 2025
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Wrap up Domain 2 with a focused review of the essential concepts, models, and vocabulary covered throughout your risk assessment study. This episode r...
Episode 34: Inherent Risk vs. Residual Risk
05 Jul 2025
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A clear understanding of inherent and residual risk is critical for exam success. This episode explains how to define and compare these two key risk s...
Episode 33: Conducting Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
05 Jul 2025
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Business impact analysis helps prioritize what matters most during risk assessments. In this episode, you’ll learn how to conduct a BIA, identify cr...
Episode 32: Risk Analysis Methodologies and Tools
05 Jul 2025
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Choosing the right methodology is crucial for valid risk assessments. This episode explores the different approaches to risk analysis—qualitative, q...
Episode 31: The IT Risk Register: Creation and Management
05 Jul 2025
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The risk register is the heart of risk tracking and reporting, and CRISC candidates must understand how to build and maintain one effectively. This ep...
Episode 30: Risk Assessment Concepts, Standards, and Frameworks
05 Jul 2025
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ISACA expects CRISC candidates to understand key risk assessment standards and apply them in context. In this episode, we explore qualitative vs. quan...
Episode 29: Risk Scenario Development
05 Jul 2025
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Risk scenarios bring all elements of risk together—threats, assets, vulnerabilities, and business impact. This episode walks you through the process...
Episode 28: Vulnerability and Control Deficiency Analysis (Root Cause Analysis)
05 Jul 2025
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Risk is driven not just by threats, but also by internal weaknesses. In this episode, we cover how to analyze vulnerabilities and control deficiencies...
Episode 27: Threat Modelling and the Threat Landscape
05 Jul 2025
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Effective risk assessment starts with a clear picture of your threat environment. This episode teaches you how to conduct threat modeling, understand ...
Episode 26: Analyzing Loss Results and Business Impacts of Risk Events
05 Jul 2025
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Once a risk event is identified, you must understand its potential consequences. In this episode, we explore how to estimate loss results—including ...
Episode 25: Risk Events: Identification and Contributing Conditions
05 Jul 2025
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To assess risk, you must first identify what risk events could occur. This episode focuses on how to recognize risk events, contributing conditions, a...
Episode 24: CRISC Domain 2 Overview: Understanding IT Risk Assessment
05 Jul 2025
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Domain 2 focuses on one of the most critical skills in CRISC: assessing IT risk accurately and effectively. This episode introduces the domain’s str...
Episode 23: Domain 1 Review: Key Takeaways and Exam Tips
05 Jul 2025
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This episode recaps the core lessons from Domain 1—Governance—and helps you consolidate key terms, relationships, and frameworks for the exam. Fro...
Episode 22: Professional Ethics of Risk Management
05 Jul 2025
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Ethical decision-making is a foundational principle for CRISC-certified professionals. This episode reviews ISACA’s Code of Professional Ethics and ...
Episode 21: Legal, Regulatory, and Contractual Requirements
05 Jul 2025
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CRISC professionals must understand how external obligations impact IT risk decisions. In this episode, we explore legal mandates, industry regulation...
Episode 20: Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance: Definitions and Applications
05 Jul 2025
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Understanding risk appetite and tolerance is vital for ensuring alignment between risk responses and business strategy. This episode clarifies these c...
Episode 19: Risk Profile: Development and Maintenance
05 Jul 2025
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Every organization must maintain a clear picture of its risk exposure—and that picture is the risk profile. In this episode, we explain how risk pro...
Episode 18: Three Lines of Defense Model
05 Jul 2025
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One of the most tested models in CRISC, the Three Lines of Defense framework is essential to understand clearly. This episode walks through each line—...
Episode 17: Enterprise Risk Management and Risk Management Framework
05 Jul 2025
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To pass CRISC, you must be fluent in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) concepts and how formal risk frameworks guide decision-making. This episode cove...
Episode 16: Organizational Assets
05 Jul 2025
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Assets are the objects of risk, and this episode gives you the tools to identify, classify, and prioritize them. From information and infrastructure t...
Episode 15: Business Processes
05 Jul 2025
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Risk doesn’t exist in a vacuum—it exists within processes. In this episode, you'll learn how to identify and evaluate business processes in relati...
Episode 14: Policies and Standards
05 Jul 2025
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Policies and standards form the foundation of governance and are key enablers of risk control. This episode breaks down the difference between policie...
Episode 13: Organizational Culture
05 Jul 2025
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Culture drives behavior, and behavior drives risk. In this episode, we explore how organizational culture affects risk acceptance, communication, and ...
Episode 12: Organizational Structure, Roles, and Responsibilities
05 Jul 2025
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CRISC candidates must know how governance structures define authority and accountability in managing IT risk. This episode explores how organizations ...
Episode 11: Organizational Strategy, Goals, and Objectives
05 Jul 2025
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A strong understanding of organizational strategy is essential for aligning IT risk practices with business goals. In this episode, we break down how ...
Episode 10: CRISC Domain 1 Overview: Governance Fundamentals and Framework
05 Jul 2025
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This episode introduces Domain 1, focusing on governance as the cornerstone of enterprise risk management. You’ll explore how business strategy, org...
Episode 9: Final CRISC Exam Readiness and Last-Minute Preparation Tips
05 Jul 2025
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As you approach exam day, this episode helps you shift from studying mode into execution mode. Learn how to organize your final review, where to focus...
Episode 8: Final CRISC Comprehensive Review – Domains 3 & 4
05 Jul 2025
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In this review session, we summarize key takeaways from Domain 3 (Risk Response and Reporting) and Domain 4 (Information Technology and Security). We’...
Episode 7: Final CRISC Comprehensive Review – Domains 1 & 2
05 Jul 2025
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This high-impact review episode brings together the most important concepts, frameworks, and risk principles from Domains 1 (Governance) and 2 (IT Ris...
Episode 6: Exam-Day Preparation: What to Expect and How to Prepare Mentally
05 Jul 2025
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You’ve studied the material—now it’s time to get ready for test day itself. In this episode, we’ll guide you through the CRISC exam experience...
Episode 5: Final Review: Summary of Key Concepts Across All CRISC Domains
05 Jul 2025
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Before you dive deep into the domains, this episode offers a high-level walkthrough of all four CRISC domains and their major subtopics. It helps you ...
Episode 4: Critical Exam Tips, Test-taking Strategies, and Common Pitfalls
05 Jul 2025
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Knowing the material is only half the battle. This episode prepares you for the test-taking experience itself with practical advice on time management...
Episode 3: Proven Strategies for Passing the CRISC Exam on Your First Attempt
05 Jul 2025
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Success on the CRISC exam doesn't just depend on what you know—it also depends on how you study. This episode breaks down proven strategies from suc...
Episode 2: Understanding ISACA and Key Resources for CRISC Exam Preparation
05 Jul 2025
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In this episode, you'll get to know ISACA—the organization behind CRISC—and the most valuable resources they provide to help you prepare. We cover...
Episode 1: Welcome to the CRISC Certification: Exam Overview, Benefits, and Career Opportunities
05 Jul 2025
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Kick off your CRISC Prepcast journey with a comprehensive introduction to the certification, its purpose, and why it holds such value in the world of ...