12 Incredible SOC Analyst Interview Questions and Answers

In this video, I attack 12 (+2 bonus) cybersecurity analyst questions you are likely to see in an entry-level analyst job interview. I provide the answers to the questions, but also provide context on why you are being asked this question and how the answer folds into the bigger picture of that job and this industry.

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1:31 Intro
3:24 Explain risk, vulnerability and threat?
7:09 What is the difference between Asymmetric and Symmetric encryption and which one is better?
10:21 What is an IPS and how does it differs from IDS?
12:40 What is XSS, how will you mitigate it?
14:36 What is the difference between encryption and hashing?
17:30 Are you a coder/developer or know any coding languages?
18:06 What is CSRF?
18:58 What is a Security Misconfiguration?
21:21 What is a Black hat, white hat and Grey hat hacker?
22:18 What is a firewall?
26:17 How do you keep yourself updated with the information security news?
27:20 The world has recently been hit by ……. Attack/virus etc. What have you done to protect your organization as a security professional?
32:35 What is the CIA triangle?
33:10 HIDS vs NIDS and which one is better and why?
35:36 One Cool Thing - AttackIQ Academy

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[johnpiernicky]

I crushed my third and final interview because of this video. I was fully prepared, and as soon as the questions started to come, I was ready for them. I instantly went from nervous to calm and confident. As a result, I'm being given a job offer. Thanks Gerry.

[cjmunger]

Thank you very much.
This helped me land my first T2 cyber network engineer position and changed my life.
Love you bro

[jeebugorn]

i have an entry-level infosec analyst interview at 10:30am (it’s 5:30am now. i’m listening to it whilst getting my workout in). i could have answered 90-ish% of the questions in the video, so i’m now much more confident and this smashed my imposter syndrome. in think i’m ready to go and kick some A in the interview. thank you!

[mrcoolgra]

This video help me get my first job as entry level SOC analyst! Thank you 🙏🏾

[CrazyCat]

Thanks for going over this. It helps to see how other people answer questions like this. Sometimes I feel in interviews I tend to ramble and overshare, but all of the interviewers I have talked with seem to enjoy watching someone really "nerd out" and get excited about answering the questions.

[ctytvmc]

Gerry great breakdown of what some of the questions can be during an interview and how to dissect the questions. Although some of the questions are basic, the ability to demonstrate and articulate a coherent understanding of the topic is challenging, especially when nerves are on 10! I am on the hunt for a SOC analyst position and this video helps tremendously.

[ernestogeorgi]

This was incredibly helpful! Long-time subscriber! Love your content! Resouces were awesome! Thanks, Gerarld Auger!

[Adam-ghre]

This is pretty helpful. Thank you. Would love to see a second video on more experienced questions.

[dzitzels]

Gerry! You were on a roll man! Keep it going! I want to hear answers to the other questions.

[sincereshipley]

I look at this video before every interview I have, just to refresh my incident response brain lol... definitely add with more recent questions please

[loganhawkins]

CSRF is basically making a url that when used by an attacker makes the victim take an unexpected action. For my college class we where given a vulnerability website designed to look like myspace. So we make urls that when loaded would add 'Samy' to your friend list. So if Alice clicked on the link it would added Samy to there friend group. Another step up for this attack is making the url be seen as an image on you profile. So to have your profile picture be the malicious url. So whenever someone views your profile they add you as their friend, becuase the url is automatically clicked from the servers code viewing the image. There are some catches like you needed to know the token and timestamp, but those where insecurely configured to where they where not changing.

[jhc]

Awesome information!
Very handy now that I'm on an interview process.

[tonyreyes]

This was awesome. I took 4 pages of notes and learned from a different perspective many other elements that can contribute to my toolbox. I have an interview today and am going to use this information to NAIL IT!
Thank you so much. I have also subscribed.

[adamjmotl]

This was perfect thank you! Just came across your channel and I’ll definitely be checking out other videos and recommending at work

[OshunBabyKhalimaCrazy]

This is really helpful because I will be doing an interview for my first SOC position and I was feeling like nervous because what if they ask me stuff I have never heard of. this gave me more confidence because I actually do know this stuff. I would like the second video pleaseeee

[SI-efom]

Thank you saw a handful of these in the interview. I also googled soc questions and it helped so much more than flipping through textbooks to learn

[micahbabinski]

CSRF is really tough to explain! I couldn't really figure it out until I did the CSRF challenge in DVWA. Great video, btw! I have my first technical interview on Thursday and this is super helpful.

[bobbyhubbard]

Thank you for this. I nailed my SOC analyst interview because of it.

[drhr]

BOOM SHANKA... great vid man.. shared on linkedin for all my BLUETEAM hopeful peeps...

[guybenbaruch]

Amazing video, it helped a lot!. Thank you.