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Interview question · Security Foundations & Threat Modeling

An external researcher reports a flaw in your AI feature. What is your process?

How you treat the first reporter decides whether there is a second. The scored answer acknowledges quickly, validates safely, fixes by severity, communicates honestly and handles AI-specific scope questions.

mediumNewPreparation tags: Microsoft, Google, OpenAIUpdated Nov 2026

How you treat the first reporter decides whether there is a second. The scored answer acknowledges quickly, validates safely, fixes by severity, communicates honestly and handles AI-specific scope questions.

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  1. 01 State the assumptions your answer depends on.
  2. 02 Explain the mechanism and choose a control.
  3. 03 Name a condition that would change your decision.

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A company with a growing AI product has no way for outside researchers to report vulnerabilities, and a researcher just posted a finding publicly.

  1. What should a disclosure process include?
  2. What happens when a report arrives?
  3. How should AI-specific reports be scoped?
  4. What about the public post?
  5. When is a bug bounty worth adding?
  6. What process would you set up?

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