Which term describes protection that prevents attackers from injecting and executing code within software?

• A. Code Injection
• B. Block Mode
• C. Code Injection Protection
• D. DCShadow

Answer: (C)

Protecting software from attackers who try to insert and run their own code hinges on stopping untrusted input from being treated as code. This is what Code Injection Protection is all about. When you validate and sanitize inputs, use parameterized queries and safe APIs, enforce least privilege, and apply runtime defenses like code signing and sandboxing, you create barriers that prevent injected code from executing. The term directly conveys guarding against that specific threat. The other options describe either the attack itself (Code Injection) or unrelated concepts (Block Mode, which isn’t a standard defense term, and DCShadow, which is about compromising a domain controller rather than preventing code execution).