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Where to spend prep time

Name the key items in "Where to spend prep time", then explain why each one matters.

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Where to spend prep timemap your gap to the track

  • Weak on AppSec depth: drill OWASP-class vulns, authn/authz and supply-chain security until you can find-and-fix on sight.
  • Weak on cloud/infra: drill IAM/least-privilege, JIT access design and container/K8s hardening until you can design an access flow cold.
  • Weak on building: write one small security tool end-to-end (a scanner or a safe wrapper) so you have a real artifact and adoption story.
  • Weak on agent security: study prompt injection, sandboxing and MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. abuse - this is the differentiator and the surface most candidates haven't lived.
Watch out

Truth-seeking is an explicit Cursor value, so bluffing a gap is doubly costly: you risk being caught and you fail the values screen even if you aren't. "I've lived AppSec; my cloud depth is real but narrower on K8s hardening and here's how I'd reason about it" beats a confident wrong answer every time.

Say it like this

My depth is strongest in application security - I've shipped find-and-fix work on authz and injection classes and built the tooling that retired them. My cloud/infra side is real but I'd be honest that my Kubernetes hardening is more recent, so I'd reason from least-privilege and isolation first principles there rather than overclaim. The agent-security surface is where I'm genuinely excited to go deep, because almost no one has lived it yet.