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?

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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 4668

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

1 6345

What is the difference between an HIDS and a NIDS?

1 7219

What is the CIA triangle?

1 2365

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 3995

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 2932

What is the difference between a vulnerability and an exploit?

1 2596

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

1 5306

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

1 8322

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

1 2468

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

2 2811

What is the difference between Information Protection and Information Assurance?

1 2460

How would you lock down a mobile device?

1 2225

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

1 2578

Un-Answered Questions { Security }

Is a console a computer?

749

What are the 3 types of hackers?

636

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?

4102

What are the most common computer applications?

726

What is a spooler on a computer?

795

How do I crack vms passwords?

What are some irc channels of interest to hackers?

How do I fake posts to usenet?

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?

1943

How do I access the password file under vms?

What software do hackers use?

630

What is database in a computer?

788

What is nis/yp?

What is a blue box?

What is a ringback number?

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