Stakeholder Management and Consensus Building Questions

Describe techniques for resolving disagreements and building consensus when security requirements conflict with product, engineering, legal, or business needs. Topics include stakeholder mapping and alignment, framing security risk in business and product terms, using data and metrics to support trade off decisions, proposing phased mitigations or compensating controls, running cross functional working sessions, negotiating minimal viable security, handling exceptions and risk acceptance, and clear documentation and escalation paths. Interviewers evaluate communication approach, ability to influence without authority, pragmatic trade off thinking, and track record of delivering secure outcomes that enable the organization.