Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and what drew you to security work?
- Which security investigation or project are you most proud of, and what was the outcome?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through how you triage a suspicious alert from the SIEM. What do you check first?
- How do you distinguish a false positive from a real threat when the evidence is ambiguous?
- Describe your process for a vulnerability scan cycle, from running the scan to confirming remediation.
- What indicators would make you suspect a phishing email led to a compromised account, and what would you do next?
- How have you used scripting to automate a repetitive security task? Give a concrete example.
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time you had to deliver bad security news to a team or executive. How did you frame it?
- Describe a situation where a team resisted a security requirement. How did you reach an outcome both sides could live with?
- How do you keep up with new vulnerabilities and attack techniques?
Problem-solving / case
- An employee reports their laptop is behaving strangely and they clicked a link an hour ago. Walk us through your first 30 minutes.
- You find credentials for an internal system posted in a public code repository. What are your immediate and follow-up actions?
- Alert volume in the SOC has tripled and the team is drowning in noise. How would you bring it under control without missing real threats?
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