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Atlassian interviews

Proving a finding

“We have an internal penetration testing team that takes a risk-based approach to perform white-box (code & engineer assisted) security assessments on areas of the business (whether this be in our cloud environments, new products or features, or internal systems and tooling).”

AtlassianVulnerability management

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A risk-based internal pentest team

Does this result prove an access-control flaw? Practise the check.

Example

Prioritising by exposure

“Vulnerabilities in third party code that are unreachable from Atlassian code may be downgraded to low severity.”

AtlassianSecurity severity levels

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Unreachable code can be downgraded

Which devices get patched first? Practise the order.

Example

“For example, a mitigating factor could be if your installation is not accessible from the Internet.”

AtlassianSecurity severity levels

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Not internet-facing mitigates

Which devices get patched first? Practise the order.

Example

“In some cases, Atlassian may use additional factors unrelated to CVSS score to determine the severity level of a vulnerability.”

AtlassianSecurity severity levels

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Beyond the CVSS score

Which devices get patched first? Practise the order.

Example

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