A security Guard is a liable person who is a privately and formally employed to protect property, assets or people. He is also known as Watchman or Night Watchman. In other word, a person who is employed to protect buildings, people, etc. and to collect and deliver large sums of money in respect of this is known as a Security Guard.

Here, in this Article, I am focusing to create the sample of questions and answers for one of the important branches of security i.e. Security Guard. If you want to excel in the interview have a look before facing it.

1. What do you understand by Sheriff ?
Sir, a Sheriff is basically a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country.
They are:
” Sheriff is an administrative legal official similar to bailiff in Ireland, Australia and Canada.
” Sheriffs are judges in Scotland.
” Sheriff is a ceremonial position in England, Wales, and India.
” In British English, the political or legal office of a sheriff is called Shrievalty.

2. What do you mean by Confidentiality?
It has been defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as “ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to have access” and is one of the cornerstones of Information security. People who have information should only be allowed to access it, most private letters come with the heading in bold and red saying private and confidential showing that letter is only accessible to those whose name is on it.

3. What is the meaning of a Threat?
A Threat is a possible cause of an unwanted incident or event.  The capacity of a threat to damage organizational resources is sometimes referenced as its capability.  It comprises of computer assisted fraud, espionage, sabotage, vandalism and fire or flood.

4. What is the meaning of Vulnerability?
Sir, Vulnerability is a type of weakness in an asset or group of assets that can be exploited by one or more threats.

5. What is the meaning of Information Security Incident?
Well sir, Information Security Incident is an incident with actual or potential information security consequences.  In other word, it is an identified occurrence of a system, service or network state indicating an actual or possible breach of information security policy or failure of safeguards.

Therefore, through these terms I think you are updated with the terminology related to the interview of Information Security. Good Luck!