SOC Analyst Tier 1 Interview Questions

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SOC Analyst Tier 1 Interview Questions
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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.
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• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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• 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.
• 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
• 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.

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• 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
• 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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