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 3403

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

1 6230

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

1 4065

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

1 6038

Why are internal threats oftentimes more successful than external threats?

1 4953

What is residual risk?

1 2378

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

1 3739

What is the Chain of Custody?

1 2687

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

1 4912

What is Exfiltration?

1754

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?

2048

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?

1663

How many security protocols available?

1 3085

What is dora process in DHCP and how it works?

2934

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 2127

Un-Answered Questions { Security }

How do I fake posts to usenet?

what is the use of scul transaction in sap security in ecc server?

832

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?

2091

What is a trojan/worm/virus?

What are the most common computer applications?

840

2048

How do I break out of a restricted shell?

Do blue boxes still work?

What is database in a computer?

910

How do I access the password file under unix?

What laptops do hackers use?

834

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

What is nis/yp?

What is a driver in computer?

853

What is the difference between a virus and a trojan?

924

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