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What if you do not know an answer?
What if you do not know an answer? Say you have not used it yet, then connect it to something you do know. “I have not run OpenVAS in a real SOC, but I understand authenticated vs unauthenticated scanning and how to patch by CVE priority.” “I haven’t used that in production, but here is the related
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Short answer
Say you have not used it yet, then connect it to something you do know.
Example
“I have not run OpenVAS in a real SOC, but I understand authenticated vs unauthenticated scanning and how to patch by CVE priority.”
Say it in the interview
“I haven’t used that in production, but here is the related idea I do understand.”
Common mistake
Inventing fake numbers or stories. That is worse than saying “I don’t know, but…”.
Learn more in the lesson: 46.1 How to Answer Cyber / SOC / Cloud Security Interviews