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      Security Test Engineer Interview

      Mar 11, 2024
      Anonymous employee
      Singapore
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Singapore)

      Interview

      Flow of the meeting: - Give a background about myself and talk about my work experience - He talked about the role and asked why I decided to look for another company - We then moved on to some technical questions 2. How would you go about performing SCR? 3. When running a test what type of vulnerability would you manually test and how would you go about it 4. What is CSRF? Example etc 5. I forgot the other question - I asked a bunch of questions after that

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Given a website, using SAST, DAST and Secure Code Review, how would you implement a security process to find/fix security issues
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      Question 2

      How would you go about performing SCR?
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      Question 3

      What is IDOR? Give an example.
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      Question 4

      When running a PT what type of vulnerability would you manually test and how would you go about it
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      Question 5

      What is CSRF? Give an example.
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