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You are the security engineer for a large organization. During a penetration test, the tester successfully exploited a vulnerability, gained access to sensitive data, and exfiltrated it. Describe how you would: - Identify the vulnerability exploited. - Contain the breach. - Analyze and mitigate the root cause. - Prevent future attacks of this nature.
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Cyber Security Consultant

Interviewed at Deloitte

3.8
Dec 19, 2024

You are the security engineer for a large organization. During a penetration test, the tester successfully exploited a vulnerability, gained access to sensitive data, and exfiltrated it. Describe how you would: - Identify the vulnerability exploited. - Contain the breach. - Analyze and mitigate the root cause. - Prevent future attacks of this nature.

In the assessment day you sit a 1 hour interview. The questions are competency based interview questions. Such as, Tell me a time where you have worked in a team and run into a problem and how did you solve this problem? What has been the biggest challenge you have faced to data and why?
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Cyber Security Consultant

Interviewed at Capgemini Invent

3.6
Nov 5, 2019

In the assessment day you sit a 1 hour interview. The questions are competency based interview questions. Such as, Tell me a time where you have worked in a team and run into a problem and how did you solve this problem? What has been the biggest challenge you have faced to data and why?

1. Option Profile 2. Difference between Asset group and Asset Tag 3. What is Honey Pot. 4. Difference between Hasing and encryption. 5. What is cross site scripting. 6. Windows 7. Standard Port- TCP-1900 UDP-180 8. OWASP top-10 Vulnerability. 9. How CVSS is calculated. What all criteria is considered in CVSS. 10. Which is latest version of CVSS. 11. What is Zero day Vulnerability. 12. What is tracert 13. How you priorities vulnerability. 1. Authenticated vs unauthenticated scan. 2. Appliance 3. False positive
Jul 19, 2021

1. Option Profile 2. Difference between Asset group and Asset Tag 3. What is Honey Pot. 4. Difference between Hasing and encryption. 5. What is cross site scripting. 6. Windows 7. Standard Port- TCP-1900 UDP-180 8. OWASP top-10 Vulnerability. 9. How CVSS is calculated. What all criteria is considered in CVSS. 10. Which is latest version of CVSS. 11. What is Zero day Vulnerability. 12. What is tracert 13. How you priorities vulnerability. 1. Authenticated vs unauthenticated scan. 2. Appliance 3. False positive

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