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Technical questions : Handshake Umask Meltdown spectra Logical Volume manager NFS Yum Patching process Shadow Pbprm file Group Inittab Selinux Repo to system Inode Su sudo Netcat Kernal perameters SSL AAA LDAP AWS : what is AWS Cloud Formation? Can u Elaborate on that? y we use it? which services shoudl i use to get relaibility, robustness and admirability for my application? what is the min max instances in autoscaling configuration? what is ELB? what is the benifit of elb? what is health check? Route53 what is userdata in ec2
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Associate Systems Security Engineer

Interviewed at Salesforce

4★
Feb 10, 2020

Technical questions : Handshake Umask Meltdown spectra Logical Volume manager NFS Yum Patching process Shadow Pbprm file Group Inittab Selinux Repo to system Inode Su sudo Netcat Kernal perameters SSL AAA LDAP AWS : what is AWS Cloud Formation? Can u Elaborate on that? y we use it? which services shoudl i use to get relaibility, robustness and admirability for my application? what is the min max instances in autoscaling configuration? what is ELB? what is the benifit of elb? what is health check? Route53 what is userdata in ec2

Projects you did. Topics cover almost all areas. cryptography, secure coding, owasp top 10, network security (tcp, certificates etc), 1 thread modeling scenario. Behavior question, like if developers refuse to fix the issue etc.
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Security Engineer

Interviewed at Zoom Communications

3.6★
Jun 8, 2021

Projects you did. Topics cover almost all areas. cryptography, secure coding, owasp top 10, network security (tcp, certificates etc), 1 thread modeling scenario. Behavior question, like if developers refuse to fix the issue etc.

1. Manual code review in either Java, C# or Python. 2. Properties of TLS. What it supports. (Basically everything about it except for explaining the TLS handshake. Which was strange that the interviewer did not want that explaination) 3. Manual threat model. 4. API implementation and design. 5. Authentication for APIs 6. Implementing TLS 7. Securing a SQL DB 8. CSRF 9. SQL Injection 10. Cipher Suites 11. Hashing vs Encryption
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Security Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Jan 20, 2021

1. Manual code review in either Java, C# or Python. 2. Properties of TLS. What it supports. (Basically everything about it except for explaining the TLS handshake. Which was strange that the interviewer did not want that explaination) 3. Manual threat model. 4. API implementation and design. 5. Authentication for APIs 6. Implementing TLS 7. Securing a SQL DB 8. CSRF 9. SQL Injection 10. Cipher Suites 11. Hashing vs Encryption

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