1) What do you see as the most critical and current threats effecting Internet accessible websites?
2) What online resources do you use to keep abreast of web security issues?
3) Give an example of recent security vulnerability or threat?
4) Difference between a threat, vulnerability and risk?
5) What do you see as challenges to successfully deploying/monitoring web intrusion detection?
6) Definition of XSS and its impact on servers and clients?
7) What are the important steps you would recommend to secure a new web application and web server?
8) What is DOM based XSS?
9) What is Blind SQL injection?
10) Where do you get security news from?
11) If you had to both encrypt and compress data during transmission, which would you do first, and why?
12) Difference between HTTP and HTML?
13) Difference between stored and reflected XSS?
14) Common defenses against XSS?
15) Difference between Stateful and Stateless firewall?
16) What kind of network do you have at home?
17) What port does ping work?
18) Explain CSRF?
19) How to defend against CSRF?
20) Difference between XSS and CSRF?
21) As a corporate Information Security professional, what’s more important to focus on: threats or vulnerabilities?
22) What are Linux’s strengths and weaknesses vs. Windows?
23) What’s the difference between Diffie-Hellman and RSA?
24) What kind of attack is a standard Diffie-Hellman exchange vulnerable to?
25) What’s the goal of information security within an organization?
26) Are open-source projects more or less secure than proprietary ones?
27) What’s the difference between encoding, encryption, and hashing?
28) What is salting?
29) Who do you look up to within the field of Information Security? Why?
30) What is NMAP? Show some nmap commands.(avoid firewall/ids, noping etc.,)
31) What is Key Escrow?
32) What is nonce?
33) What does RSA stand for?
34) What is DES?
35) What is triple DES?
36) What is the difference between Symmetric and Asymmetric?
37) How does HTTP handle state?
38) In public-key cryptography you have a public and a private
key, and you often perform both encryption and signing functions. Which
key is used for which?
39) How exactly does traceroute/tracert work at the protocol level?
40) What is a Buffer Overflow?
41) What is a NOP Sled?
42) Design a secure network
43) How do you securely link two offices together?
44) What is the security threat level today at the Internet Storm Center (ISC)?
45) What is SSL?
46) How do you create SSL certificates, generically speaking?
47) What is DNS Hijacking?
48) What is the latest security breach you’re aware of?
49) Have you hacked any system?
50) Can a Virtual Operating System be compromised?
51) What is UPX?
52) What is meterpreter?
53) What is LDAP?
54) Why is LDAP called Light weight?
55) What are the standard port numbers for SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, RPC, LDAP and Global Catalog?
56) What are rainbow tables?
57) What is dsniff?
58) Other than Wireshark, what sniffers have you used?
59) What was the last course you attend? Where? When? Why?
60) What was the last technical book you read?
61) Describe the last security implementation you were involved with.
62) What is a honeypot?
63) Are there limitations of Intrusion Detection Signatures?
64) Describe TCP 3-way Handshake?
65) Difference between pen testing and vulnerability assessment?
66) Difference between vulnerability and mitigation?
67) Give me an example of a vulnerability at each layer of the OSI reference model.
68) Give me a type of mitigation for each of the vulnerabilities you have just provided.
69) OSI(Open System Interconnection) model
70) What is MITM?
71) What is a Syn Flood attack, and how to prevent it?
72) What’s the difference between a router, a bridge, a hub and a switch?
73) Your network has been infected by malware. Please walk me through the process of cleaning up the environment.
74) What’s the difference between a Proxy and a Firewall?
75) Why should I use server certificates on my e-commerce website?
76) What’s port scanning and how does it work?
77) Process of pen testing a system
78) What is NAT and how does it work?
79) What is false positive and false negative?
80) Please detail 802.1x security vs. 802.11 security
81) How would you harden a Windows Server? What about a Linux Server?
82) What are the latest threats you foresee for the near future?
83) What is ISO 27001 and why should a company adopt it?
84) What is the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer?
85) Define Security
86) MAC OS vs. WINDOWS
87) Ping uses TCP or UDP?
88) Explain Authentication and authorization?
89) What is a Brute force attack?
90) What is meant by client-side scripting?
91) What is a cookie?
92) Explain DOS, DDOS
93) What is directory traversal attack?
94) What is meant by reconnaissance?
95) What is forced browsing?
96) What is meant by session ID?
97) Define Web application?
98) What is meant by WAF?
99) Explain different types of hackers?
100) what are the different types of penetration testing?
101) Explain CIA triad
102) what are Google hacks/dorks?
103) List out OWASP top 10
104) Define Hacking? What is ethical hacking?
105) what are the various penetration testing methodologies?
106) what is social engineering?
107) In the context of Metasploit, explain what is meant by exploit, payload, auxiliary, encoders, NOP, post
108) what are root kits?
109) Explain Steganography
110) Difference between autopwn and armitage
111) what is meant by backdooring?
112) what is INCIDENT RESPONSE?
113) what is chain of custody?
114) what are the different port’s used commonly and list out their port no’s?
115) what is imaging?
116) what is padding?
117) what is pivoting?
118) what is SSH, FTP, TSL?
119) what is HTTP response splitting?
120) what is RFI, LFI?
121) what do you know about encryption?
122) Can CSRF be done for POST and GET methods?
123) what is the encryption of ssl certificate in a website?
124) Difference between public and private key?
125) what is chain of custody?
126) what is meant by incident response?
127) what is hacktivism?
128) what is a firewall? types of firewall?
129) what is ssl, how do you create ssl certificates?
130) what is a spoofed packet
131) what is IDS or IDP? Give example?
132) what would you do if your system is compromised?
133) what is web-caching?
134) what is use of proxy servers?
135) what would you do if your network device is compromised?
136) what is GPG/PGP?
137) what is log host?
138) how do you manage a firewall?
139) if you were not using Apache as the reverse proxy, what Microsoft application/tool could you use to mitigate this attack?
140) Why we use firewall for security when we have facilities like access-list on routers ?
141) what is the difference between an SSL connection and an SSL session?
142) List and briefly define four techniques used to avoid guessable passwords.
143) what is a salt in the context of UNIX password management?
144) what is the difference between rule-based anomaly detection and rule-based penetration identification?
145) what is the difference between statistical anomaly detection and rule-based intrusion detection?
146) Describe SOAP and WSDL
147) what protocols comprise SSL?
148) what are hidden fields in HTTP?
149) what steps are involved in the SSL Record Protocol transmission?
150) what is file enumeration?
151) what tools can you use to validate the strength of SID (session ID)?
152) what is phishing attack?
153) what is cookie gathering?
154) what is a dual signature and what is its purpose?
155) how can you ensure that all input fields are properly validated to prevent code injection attacks?
156) why do we need port scanning?
157) what are format string vulnerabilities?
158) Example of broken authentication and command injection
159) what is sql injection?
160) what are fuzzers?
161) what is runtime inspection?
162) what is ISO 17799
163) what is integer overflow?
164) what type of security testing have you performed?
165) what is ARP spoofing?
166) During an audit, an interviewee is not disclosing the information being requested. How would you overcome this situation?
167) Why should I use server certificates on my e-commerce website?
168) Can a server certificate prevent SQL injection attacks against your system? Please explain.
169) What are the most common application security flaws?
170) What do you understand by layered security approach?
171) Difference between virus, Trojan, spyware, malware and a worm
172) Can Linux be compromised? How secure is Linux? How would you compromise a LINUX system?
173) What do you do if you are a victim of a DoS attack?
174) What is a log host?
175) what are the security functions of SSL?
176) what is a 0 by 90 bytes error.
177) what is the problem of having a predictable sequence of bits in TCP/IP?
178) what is heap memory?
179) what is a system call?
180) what is 2 factor authentication?
181) what is IIS lockdown tool?
182) what is disaster recovery?
183) what is a null session?
184) what is incident management?
185) what is SAM (Security Account Manager)?
186) what is a SID (Security ID)?
187) what is the difference between TCP and IP?
188) what is the difference between TCP and UDP?
189) Explain IP Address?
190) what is Public IP and Private IP?
191) Define subnet mask, default gateway, loopback address and IPID?
192) what is Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)? What are request methods?
193) Difference between IPv4 and IPv6
194) what is the difference between stateful and stateless protocol? Explain with example?
195) how would you prevent man-in-the-middle attacks?
196) Example, recommendation and affect of DOM based XSS?
197) what is XSP(Cross site printing)?
198) Describe OSPF routing?
199) what are the consequences of HTTP trace request?
200) what is session hijacking?
201) how would you convince a client to use your security product?
202) how do you secure a Wi-Fi network?
203) what is a protocol, socket and port?
204) what is your area of expertise and why?
205) what is the difference between routing protocols and routed protocols?
206) Difference between session and cookie?
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