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General questions: * "Talk about yourself." * Main good and bad qualities. * What you like to do in your free time. * How your current/last team sees you. * What you want for the future. Technical questions: * Difference between stateful/ stateless firewalls. * Difference between TCP/UDP. * Some questions about ACL and routers on AWS. * What is XSS? And how to mitigate and avoid them. * What is SQL injection and how to avoid them. * Questions about email phishing. * Questions about DDoS. * Things to consider to develop secure applications.
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Information Security Engineer

Interviewed at Loadsmart

3.8
Oct 18, 2020

General questions: * "Talk about yourself." * Main good and bad qualities. * What you like to do in your free time. * How your current/last team sees you. * What you want for the future. Technical questions: * Difference between stateful/ stateless firewalls. * Difference between TCP/UDP. * Some questions about ACL and routers on AWS. * What is XSS? And how to mitigate and avoid them. * What is SQL injection and how to avoid them. * Questions about email phishing. * Questions about DDoS. * Things to consider to develop secure applications.

The head of security kept asking about computer parts and processes. He never asked about attack types probably because he is not from the cyber field specifically. That raises the issue when the title makes you head of security but not an expert of security.
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Security Engineer

Interviewed at 10x Genomics

3.1
Apr 15, 2022

The head of security kept asking about computer parts and processes. He never asked about attack types probably because he is not from the cyber field specifically. That raises the issue when the title makes you head of security but not an expert of security.

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