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Enterprise Cloud Security and Compliance Questions

Designing enterprise grade cloud security and compliance architectures: network segmentation and reference topologies such as hub and spoke, virtual private cloud design, security groups and network access control lists, private connectivity options and virtual private networks, identity governance and scalable policy management, secrets and key management, encryption at rest and in transit, centralized logging and audit trails, threat detection and security monitoring, incident response and forensics, and embedding compliance controls for standards such as SOC two, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. Also includes applying common enterprise security patterns and evaluating trade offs between patterns in large organizations.

MediumTechnical
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Write an AWS IAM policy (in JSON) that grants read-only access to S3 objects for buckets with names starting with 'prod-' and explicitly denies DeleteObject and PutBucketAcl actions. The policy will be attached to a role used by automated analytics jobs. Explain any assumptions you make about ARN patterns and resource scoping.
EasyTechnical
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Define network segmentation for enterprise cloud. Describe the purpose, common constructs (subnets, security groups, NACLs, route tables), and produce a concise hub-and-spoke reference topology that isolates dev/test from prod while enabling central monitoring, shared services, and controlled cross-segment access.
MediumTechnical
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Design a detection strategy for anomalous API activity such as console logins from unfamiliar geographies, unusual CreateUser/CreateRole events, or privilege escalation API calls. Specify data sources, detection techniques (rule-based, statistical, ML), enrichment data, alerting thresholds, and methods to reduce alert fatigue.
MediumBehavioral
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Behavioral: Describe a time you had to present technical security trade-offs (for example, stronger encryption versus performance, or stricter segmentation versus developer usability) to a sales team and a customer. How did you translate technical risk into tangible business impact, reach consensus, and document the decision?
HardTechnical
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Design a safe penetration testing plan for cloud workloads that minimizes operational impact and maintains compliance. Include scope definition, white-listing IPs, scheduling windows, artifact handling, communication with cloud provider and customer, and how to validate and prioritize findings afterwards.

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