Data sanitisation

Question 1

masking

Answer 1

hiding visible data

replaces data with something else
e.g. when a person enters a password and it is seen as dots
this protects the actual password

Question 2

input sanitisation

Answer 2

the process of checking entered data and removing dangerous inputs which could otherwise be used to cause damage to a program

Question 3

example of input sanitisation

Answer 3

someone might try to gain access to a site’s data through a website form using an SQL injection hack - where an SQL command is entered into a website form

input sanitisation could be used to remove any SQL commands from the inputted data