Input Validation in Code Analysis

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What is the primary benefit of implementing the principle of least privilege?

To monitor employee activity
To reduce the risk of unauthorized changes (correct)
To apply security patches to a system
To disable unnecessary software

What is the purpose of hardening a system?

To enforce configuration settings
To apply security patches to a system
To monitor employee activity
To reduce the surface of vulnerability (correct)

What type of attack enables the use of an input field to run commands that can view or manipulate data in a database?

Cross-site scripting
Buffer overflow
Side loading
SQL injection (correct)

What is the purpose of configuration enforcement?

To ensure a system adheres to a predefined set of security settings (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of implementing the principle of least privilege in a help desk environment?

To prevent unauthorized changes to software configuration (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability?

Hardening (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the surveillance of workers' activity?

Employee monitoring (C) Signup and view all the answers

What language is used to communicate with databases?

SQL (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of input validation in application security?

To prevent various types of attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in the application code (D) Signup and view all the answers

What can be used to filter out unwanted or harmful input in input validation?

Regular expressions (C) Signup and view all the answers

What type of attacks can input validation prevent?

Various types of attacks, including injection, cross-site scripting, buffer overflow, and command execution (D) Signup and view all the answers

Where can input validation be performed?

On both the client-side and the server-side (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of removing special characters from the input?

To reduce the risk of attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in the application code (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is not a security technique adopted by the organization in the given scenario?

Static code analysis (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of using regular expressions in input validation?

To remove special characters from the input (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary purpose of data masking?

To protect the privacy and confidentiality of data (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the limitation of using encryption to protect data?

It can be bypassed by attackers who have the decryption key or method (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of data sovereignty regulation?

Governing the storage, processing, and transfer of data within a specific jurisdiction or country (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of using regular expressions in source code to remove special characters?

To validate user input (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the security technique adopted by the organization in the updated security policy?

Input validation (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary benefit of using input validation in a web application?

To prevent malicious input from being processed (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the limitation of using data sovereignty regulation to protect data?

It varies depending on the country or region (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of client-side validation in a web application?

To validate user input before submitting it to the server (B) Signup and view all the answers