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Top 50 Cybersecurity
Interview Questions
1.	 What is Cybersecurity?
2.	 What is cryptography?
3.	 Define risk, threat, and vulnerability?
4.	 What is Cross-Site Scripting?
5.	 What are IDS and IPS?
6.	 What is a Botnet?
7.	 What is a CIA triad?
8.	 What is the difference between hashing and
encryption?
9.	 What is two-factor authentication?
10.	What is the use of a firewall?
11.	What is a vulnerability assessment?
12.	What is penetration testing?
13.	What are stored XSS attacks?
14.	What are reflected XSS Attacks?
15.	What is a three-way handshake process?
16.	What is a Brute Force Attack?
17.	What is a data leak?
18.	What is Traceroute?
19.	What is a CSRF attack?
20.	What is DNS monitoring?
21.	What is salting?
22.	What is ‘Man-in-the-Middle Attack’?
23.	What is SSL, and why is it used?
24.	What is HTTPS?
25.	What are the different types of hackers?
26.	Define cognitive security?
27.	What is phishing?
28.	What is SQL injection?
29.	What is a DDOS attack?
30.	What is compliance in cybersecurity?
31.	What is Patch Management?
32.	What is System hardening?
33.	What is a cybersecurity risk assessment?
34.	What is the use of Address Resolution
Protocol (ARP)?
35.	What is Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)?
36.	What is Diffie Hellman?
37.	What is RSA?
38.	What is Forward Secrecy?
39.	What is Active Reconnaissance?
40.	What is security misconfiguration?
41.	What is a Chain of Custody?
42.	What is Port Scanning?
43.	What is a VPN?
44.	Explain WAF
45.	What is network sniffing?
46.	What is SSH?
47.	What is a black box and white box testing?
48.	What is Exfiltration?
49.	What is IGMP?
50.	What are the types of symmetric encryption
algorithms?
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Top 50 Cybersecurity Interview Questions

  • 1. Top 50 Cybersecurity Interview Questions 1. What is Cybersecurity? 2. What is cryptography? 3. Define risk, threat, and vulnerability? 4. What is Cross-Site Scripting? 5. What are IDS and IPS? 6. What is a Botnet? 7. What is a CIA triad? 8. What is the difference between hashing and encryption? 9. What is two-factor authentication? 10. What is the use of a firewall? 11. What is a vulnerability assessment? 12. What is penetration testing? 13. What are stored XSS attacks? 14. What are reflected XSS Attacks? 15. What is a three-way handshake process? 16. What is a Brute Force Attack? 17. What is a data leak? 18. What is Traceroute? 19. What is a CSRF attack? 20. What is DNS monitoring? 21. What is salting? 22. What is ‘Man-in-the-Middle Attack’? 23. What is SSL, and why is it used? 24. What is HTTPS? 25. What are the different types of hackers? 26. Define cognitive security? 27. What is phishing? 28. What is SQL injection? 29. What is a DDOS attack? 30. What is compliance in cybersecurity? 31. What is Patch Management? 32. What is System hardening? 33. What is a cybersecurity risk assessment? 34. What is the use of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)? 35. What is Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)? 36. What is Diffie Hellman? 37. What is RSA? 38. What is Forward Secrecy? 39. What is Active Reconnaissance? 40. What is security misconfiguration? 41. What is a Chain of Custody? 42. What is Port Scanning? 43. What is a VPN? 44. Explain WAF 45. What is network sniffing? 46. What is SSH? 47. What is a black box and white box testing? 48. What is Exfiltration? 49. What is IGMP? 50. What are the types of symmetric encryption algorithms? Learn more at: www.thecyberexpress.com PRESS THE An Information Security Journal