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Critical CVE on 3,000 Servers: 45-Day Patch vs 10-Day Deadline

Question:Your vulnerability scanner finds a critical CVE on 3,000 servers in the acquired company. Patching will take 45 days minimum. But the business says those servers must be network-integrated in 10 days for the acquisition deal terms to close legally.How do you architect compensating controls, and how do you communicate…

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We just acquired a company with 50,000 employees. Their security posture is unknown. We need full detection coverage, integrated into our SIEM, with meaningful alerting — in 90 days. What do you build and how?

Interviewer Question 1 :Your company processes 500 million events per day across a hybrid environment: AWS (primary), on-prem data centers (legacy), Azure (M365/identity). You have 200,000 endpoints (60% Windows, 30% Linux, 10% Mac), a globally distributed engineering org of 15,000 employees, and a SOC running 24/7 across 3 regions.Your CISO…

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Summary of Microsoft SharePoint Zero-Day Vulnerability

A critical zero-day RCE chain dubbed ToolShell, tracked as CVE-2025-53770 (and accompanying spoof bypass CVE-2025-53771), has been actively exploited against on-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers since mid-July 2025. Organizations running SharePoint Server 2016, 2019, or Subscription Edition must apply Microsoft’s emergency security updates immediately and perform key rotation and forensic assessments to prevent persistent compromise.
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