Security Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Security Interview Questions

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What is an easy way to configure a network to allow only a single computer to login on a particular jack?

1 7105

You are remoted in to a headless system in a remote area. You have no physical access to the hardware and you need to perform an OS installation. What do you do?

1 5069

On a Windows network, why is it easier to break into a local account than an AD account?

1 6788

What is the difference between an HIDS and a NIDS?

1 7618

What is the CIA triangle?

1 2645

You find out that there is an active problem on your network. You can fix it, but it is out of your jurisdiction. What do you do?

1 4308

You are an employee for a tech department in a non-management position. A high-level executive demands that you break protocol and allow him to use his home laptop at work. What do you do?

1 3256

What is the difference between a vulnerability and an exploit?

1 2998

How would you compromise an “Office Workstation” at a hotel?

1 5627

What is worse in Firewall Detection, a false negative or a false positive? And why?

1 8668

What’s better, a red team or a blue team?

1 2785

What’s the difference between a White Box test and a Black Box test?

2 3192

What is the difference between Information Protection and Information Assurance?

1 2822

How would you lock down a mobile device?

1 2531

What is the difference between closed-source and open-source? Which is better?

1 2984

Un-Answered Questions { Security }

Do blue boxes still work?

What is password shadowing?

Which payphones will a red box work on?

Who is the best hacker in the world?

911

What is a trojan/worm/virus?

A phonetic password generator picks two segments randomly for each six-letter password. The form of each segment is CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant), where V= < a, e, i, o, u > and C = (V.) ̅ What is the total password population? What is the probability of an adversary guessing a password correctly?

4284

How do I gain root from a suid script or program?

How do I modify the irc client to hide my real username?

Is a console a computer?

960

What is a ringback number?

What is a driver in computer?

907

What are some irc channels of interest to hackers?

What are the most common computer applications?

892

What is footprinting in ethical hacking? What is the techniques used for footprinting?

1371

What tools do real hackers use?

811

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