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

Security Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is your opinion on hacktivist groups such as Anonymous?

1 3427

What is the Three-way handshake? How can it be used to create a DOS attack?

1 6249

Why would you bring in an outside contractor to perform a penetration test?

1 4091

If you were going to break into a database-based website, how would you do it?

1 6057

Why are internal threats oftentimes more successful than external threats?

1 4971

What is residual risk?

1 2384

Why is deleted data not truly gone when you delete it?

1 3761

What is the Chain of Custody?

1 2703

How would you permanently remove the threat of data falling into the wrong hands?

1 4937

What is Exfiltration?

1764

I run an SMB. I have 4 people in my entire company and a web-based store. I don’t have the time, patience or manpower to have a computer guy. Why should I care about exploits and computer jibberish?

2056

I’m the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I make more in an afternoon than you make in a year. I don’t care about this stupid security stuff, it just costs time and money and slows everything down. Why should I care about this junk?

1670

How many security protocols available?

1 3103

What is dora process in DHCP and how it works?

2949

Configuring ACLs is an important part of working with the IOS Firewall. What wildcard masks are replaced in ACLs by the words host and any?

1 2146

Un-Answered Questions { Security }

1. Assume that passwords are selected from four-character combination of 26 alphabetic characters. Assume that an adversary is able to attempt passwords at a rate of one per second. a. Assuming no feedback to the adversary until each attempt has been completed, what is the expected time to recover the correct password? b. Assuming feedback to the adversary flagging an error as each incorrect character is entered, what is the expected time to discover the correct password?

2100

How do I hack chanop on irc?

How do I access the password file under vms?

What is a spooler on a computer?

1018

What's Security Tests

What os do hackers use?

825

Do blue boxes still work?

Does indexing slow down computer?

956

Who is the most dangerous hacker?

831

What is dora process in DHCP and how it works?

2949

What is a blue box?

Is a console a computer?

901

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

Who is the best hacker in the world?

870

What is a trojan/worm/virus?

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