Security & Compliance Topics
Governance, compliance frameworks, regulatory requirements, compliance implementation, and compliance-driven risk management. Covers compliance frameworks (SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, FCPA, etc.), regulatory interpretation, compliance control design, audit and control effectiveness evaluation, and compliance process management. For operational security implementation and technical threat mitigation, see Security Engineering & Operations.
Collaboration with Legal Security and Law Enforcement
Working with legal, security, privacy, compliance teams, and external law enforcement or incident response partners. Interviewers seek examples showing how you align technical work with legal and regulatory requirements, translate technical risks into legal language, negotiate trade offs between product goals and compliance, support investigations or incident responses, and protect user privacy and company risk. Discuss strategies for building trust with these stakeholders, communicating technical constraints to nontechnical colleagues, managing conflicting priorities, and leading cross functional initiatives that balance security privacy legal and business needs.
Compliance and Data Protection Regulations
Understanding of regulatory requirements (GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, CCPA, PCI-DSS), implementing controls to meet compliance obligations, data retention policies, audit requirements, and working with compliance and legal teams.
Communicating Security to Stakeholders
Ability to translate security concepts, findings, incidents, and trade offs into business language for non technical audiences. This includes presenting security risks and threat models in terms of business impact, explaining severity and likelihood, recommending mitigations and investments, and persuading executives or other stakeholders to prioritize security actions. Candidates should show how they remove technical jargon, frame trade offs between security functionality and cost, and communicate incident details, remediation steps, and residual risk clearly.