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How do you explain open source risk to a comms or PR team?
Comms teams get asked about flaws in the open source parts of a product. What to brief them on, which words to avoid, and a holding statement outline.
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How do you explain a risk acceptance to an executive in five sentences?
A risk acceptance is a signed decision to live with a known vulnerability for a set time. Five sentences that tell an executive what they are approving.
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How do you evaluate a vendor's claim that AI finds zero days?
A claim that AI finds zero days needs proof: reproducible findings, disclosure handling, false report rates, and scope. Questions a buyer can ask to test it.
Oct 19, 20263 min read
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How do you estimate the time a security AI feature really saves?
Estimate time saved by a security AI feature with a before and after timing of real tasks, counting review and rework, not the vendor's headline figure.
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How do you enable TLS for Redis clients, replicas and cluster?
Enable Redis TLS with a tls-port, a certificate and a CA, set port to 0 to close plaintext, then turn on TLS for replication and the cluster bus.
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How do you map the data flowing to third-party APIs and SDKs?
Build a one-page map of what data each service sends to which vendor, so a vendor incident becomes a lookup instead of a scramble.
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How do you disable SMBv1 when an old device still needs it?
Turn on SMBv1 auditing first, find who still uses it, then remove it from everything else and fence off the one old device that cannot move.
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How do you dedupe one CVE showing up in many environments?
Dedupe by component, version and artifact digest, not by host. A grouping method that turns thousands of rows into a short fix list per owner.
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How do you decommission a subdomain safely, and in what order?
Retire a subdomain without leaving a takeover path: remove the DNS record first, then the resource. A numbered runbook with owners and checks.
Oct 19, 20264 min read
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