CISSP Cyber Training Podcast - CISSP Training Program
CISSP Cyber Training Podcast - CISSP Training Program
Shon Gerber, vCISO, CISSP, Cybersecurity Consultant and Entrepreneur
CCT 375: The Malicious Workflow Was Already There (CISSP Domain 8.2)
49 minutes Posted Oct 19, 2026 at 11:00 am.
Welcome And Domain 8.2 Setup
Ghost Action Workflow Secret Theft
How The Attack Chain Works
Scale Numbers And The Real Lesson
Rotation Is Not Enough
Ownership And Pipeline Governance
CISSP Study Options And Cohorts
CISSP Exam Changes And AI
Securing The Development Ecosystem
Inventory, Extensions, And Auto Updates
SAST, DAST, IAST, And SCA
Pipeline Controls And Least Privilege
Exam Takeaways And CISSP Questions
Wrap Up And Next Steps
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Send us Fan Mail A “boring” GitHub Actions workflow file should never be able to empty your secrets vault, yet that is exactly what the Ghost Action campaign shows. We walk through GitGuardian’s research and the real mechanics of how attackers use stolen but valid developer tokens to add or modify workflow YAML, scrape secret names from your own repo, and exfiltrate CI/CD secrets to an external endpoint. The scary part is not exotic malware, it is normal automation doing what it was designed ...