Sample Answer
Last year I led response for a credential-stuffing event that hit our web portal—login failures spiked to 12,000 attempts/hour and about 1,200 accounts were locked. I immediately activated our IR playbook, blocked offending IP ranges at the WAF, and implemented rate limiting and MFA challenge for the portal in under 90 minutes. I coordinated with IT to rotate affected API keys and with customer ops to prepare password reset communications for the 1,200 users; legal and the CISO received hourly situation reports. Within 24 hours, attack volume dropped 98%, customer lockouts were resolved within 48 hours, and we reduced account takeover risk by adding adaptive MFA—an improvement that lowered similar incidents by 85% in the following quarter.
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