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Cybersecurityknowledge~10 mins

Input validation and sanitization in Cybersecurity - Interactive Code Practice

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Practice - 5 Tasks
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easy

Complete the sentence to explain input validation.

Cybersecurity
Input validation is the process of checking if user input [1] the expected format.
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Ahides
Bignores
Cmatches
Ddeletes
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Common Mistakes
Choosing words like 'ignores' or 'deletes' which do not describe validation.
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medium

Complete the sentence to explain input sanitization.

Cybersecurity
Input sanitization means removing or encoding [1] characters from user input to prevent security issues.
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Adangerous
Bsafe
Cempty
Dfriendly
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Common Mistakes
Confusing safe characters with dangerous ones.
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hard

Fix the error in the sentence about input validation.

Cybersecurity
Input validation should be done only [1] the data is stored in the database.
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Awithout
Bafter
Cwhile
Dbefore
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Common Mistakes
Choosing 'after' which allows bad data to be stored.
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hard

Fill both blanks to complete the sentence about sanitization methods.

Cybersecurity
Sanitization can be done by [1] dangerous characters or [2] them to safe forms.
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Aremoving
Bignoring
Cencoding
Dduplicating
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Common Mistakes
Choosing 'ignoring' or 'duplicating' which do not protect against attacks.
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hard

Fill all three blanks to complete the dictionary comprehension about input validation.

Cybersecurity
valid_inputs = {input: input[1] for input in inputs if len(input) [2] 0 and input.isalnum() [3] True}
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A.lower()
B>
C==
D.strip()
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Common Mistakes
Using '.lower()' instead of '.strip()' which does not remove spaces.
Using '==' instead of '>' for length check.