SOC Analyst Tier 1 Interview Questions.pptx

SOC Analyst Tier 1 Interview
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Security Operations Center (SOC) Analysts play a crucial role in identifying, analyzing,
responding, and mitigating cyber attacks in an organization. The Tier 1 SOC Analysts
are triaged, which means the first responders who identify, manage, and configure the
security tools to analyze and define the nature of the attack. This article provides the
interview questions for SOC Analysts L1 and helps to take a quick revision before
cracking an interview.

1. What is a threat?
A Threat is defined as a malicious activity intended to achieve unauthorized access to the
system, disrupt the organization's assets, steal data, and damage the network operation.
The threats are categorized into the following types:
• Adversarial Threat
• Accidental Threat
• Environmental Threat
• Structured Threat
2. What is vulnerability?
Vulnerability is a weakness or security flaw in a system or network that allows attackers to
exploit the system and can lead to unauthorized access, malware injection, DDoS attacks,
or data compromise. It creates a possible way to violate the system's security policy.
3. Explain the difference between event and incident.
An event is an occurrence in time that is analyzed, verified, and documented. An incident
is a series of events that negatively affect organizational assets.
4. How is Incident management different from Problem management?
Incident Management is defined as minimizing the negative impact of incidents by
restoring security operations. In contrast, problem management is defined as the cause
of one or more incidents that further deals with identifying the root cause of an incident.

5. Define a Brute force attack and a Dictionary attack.
In a Brute force attack, several possible key permutations or trial and error methods are
used to get the login info, access to a web page, or encryption keys. Whereas, in a
Dictionary attack, words are used to break the password-protected network, system, or IT
resource.
6. What are the various types of Brute Force Attacks?
The following are the various types of Brute Force Attacks:
• Credential Stuffing
• Dictionary Attack
• Simple Brute Force Attack
• Hybrid Brute Force Attack
• Reverse Brute Force Attack
• Rainbow Table Attack
7. What is the difference between DOS & DDOS?
DOS is a Denial of Service attack in which the attackers send an enormous amount of
traffic to make the server or website services unavailable. In contrast, the DDoS attack is a
Distributed denial-of-service that uses multiple systems to inject massive traffic into the
target system. Both DoS and DDoS attacks aim to interrupt the services provided by the
websites.

9. Define Firewall, and what are the different types of firewalls?
• A Firewall is a security solution used to protect the network from malicious activities. It
is connected with the systems or devices through a network to monitor the network
traffic.
• Different types of firewalls are as follows:
• Packet-filtering firewall
• Cloud firewall
• Application layer firewall
• Stateful Inspection firewall
• Hardware firewall
• Software firewall
10. What is WAF?
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects the web application from cyberattacks such as
cookie poisoning, Cross-site scripting, SQL injection, etc.
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