Welcome to "Cracking the Security Engineer Interview." If you're reading this, you are likely preparing to take the next big step in your career. You already know that the security engineer interview is one of the most challenging in the tech industry. Why? Because the field is impossibly broad, the stakes are incredibly high, and the role itself is a moving target.
You are expected to be part network admin, part developer, part cryptographer, part cloud architect, and part detective—all at the same time. You might be asked to design a secure network, then five minutes later, find the flaw in a line of code, and then five minutes after that, explain the business implications of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
It's overwhelming, and a common mistake for candidates is to either go too deep on one topic (like binary exploitation) or stay too shallow on all of them.
This book is designed to fix that. It is not a 1,000-page encyclopedia. It is a curated, high-impact guide built for one purpose: to get you ready for a real interview, fast.
