Top 3 Secure coding Interview Questions

Browse 3 real-world technical and behavioral interview questions about Secure coding. Review scenarios, edge cases, and architectural best practices.

What is the difference between SAST, DAST and SCA, and what kind of vulnerability does each one miss?

SAST vs DAST vs SCA compares three partial security views: SAST reviews source code, DAST tests a running app and SCA checks dependencies. Each misses business-logic flaws and each needs triage, ownership and release policy to matter.

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Would you rather build a framework that is secure by default, or train developers to write secure code? Why?

Secure-by-default framework design wins because it removes the vulnerability class from the option space entirely, while training relies on every developer remembering every rule on every request; the two are not actually substitutes, since training is still needed for what the framework cannot enforce.

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Your vulnerability scanner just reported four thousand findings across the codebase. How do you actually triage that?

Vulnerability scanner backlog triage should rank findings by exploitability, reachability, asset criticality and fix leverage instead of CVSS alone. Group duplicates by root cause, separate release blockers from tracked debt and assign owners.

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