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Hack the Cybersecurity Interview

By : Kenneth Underhill, Christophe Foulon, Tia Hopkins
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Hack the Cybersecurity Interview

By: Kenneth Underhill, Christophe Foulon, Tia Hopkins

Overview of this book

This book is a comprehensive guide that helps both entry-level and experienced cybersecurity professionals prepare for interviews in a wide variety of career areas. Complete with the authors’ answers to different cybersecurity interview questions, this easy-to-follow and actionable book will help you get ready and be confident. You’ll learn how to prepare and form a winning strategy for job interviews. In addition to this, you’ll also understand the most common technical and behavioral interview questions, learning from real cybersecurity professionals and executives with years of industry experience. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to apply the knowledge you've gained to confidently pass your next job interview and achieve success on your cybersecurity career path.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Hacking Yourself
3
Part 2: Cybersecurity Careers and Interview Questions
11
Part 3: Cybersecurity Management Careers and Interview Questions

Summary

A career as a cybersecurity sales engineer can be incredibly lucrative and rewarding. The key to success is always seeking to understand the reason behind the question or concern, providing conversational answers and telling stories (avoiding binary answers where possible), and making sure your audience remembers you. Have fun in your interview – be yourself. Sure, the company you're interviewing with is assessing whether you're a good fit, but you should be doing that as well.

Finally, I'll leave you with this golden nugget…

Turn your interview into a conversation. There are only so many questions that can be asked in a 30-to-60-minute window. The more time you spend having a conversation, the more the interviewer gets to know you and remember you as a person, not just another candidate. Also (and this is super top-secret stuff!), conversations help limit the number of questions the interviewer can ask. Now, go out there and crush it!

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