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Scenario-based interview questions for security engineers/analysts
What are the consequences if private keys of a Root CA gets compromised?
If you have rogue certificates of a well-known company, as an attacker, how can you use it for you own benefit?
As a security threat analyst, what will be your approach to respond to this incident? Securing Infra, servers and people!
> https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/3/
How would you check the signature of a binary and restrict any unsigned binaries to run on a machine(Win/Linux/Mac)
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/seccrypto/using-signtool-to-verify-a-file-signature
> (Rogue) https://blog.rapid7.com/2019/01/03/santas-elfs-running-linux-executables-without-execve/
How can I restrict the normal user to run only limited set of commands in Linux?
> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/65822
Say your frontend is running on a cloud CDN and the APIs are deployed via cloud Load balancers. The security team saw a 10X spike while monitoring the traffic but nothing went down except the portal faced some latency. As an analyst, give a not-too-brief plan about your approach to triage and respond to this incident which can be presented to the board/management.
> Different approaches depending upon how deep you can think of.
You have given a naked cloud platform(AWS/GCP/Azure). Describe your approach to make it secure for the company.
Interviewer gives you an obfuscated Powershell script and asks details what can you extract from this?
> https://neodymiumphi.sh/BlueTeamLabs-Malicious-PowerShell-Analysis/
> https://malware.news/t/deobfuscating-powershell-putting-the-toothpaste-back-in-the-tube
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