Security Engineer Interview Questions
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You're the sole security engineer at a 30-person startup. Currently, you have full admin access to production, can approve your own code changes, and manage the security tools. The CEO asks if this is a problem. How do you explain the risks and propose practical solutions given the resource constraints?
A security scan discovered an AWS access key hardcoded in a public GitHub repository. The key was committed 6 months ago. After handling the immediate incident, leadership asks you to prevent this from happening again across the 200-developer organization. What's your approach to designing a secrets management strategy that developers will actually follow?
Your company is acquiring a startup. You need to assess their security posture. What's your approach?
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