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Solution: What is secured deserialization?

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Solution: What is secured deserialization?

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] The answer for the question was in the video where we go over, well, secure deserialization. Without going over everything we did in that video, these are the main points we were looking for. Deserialization is the transformation of data coming from a file or the network, typically from a JSON or XML format, into an object that your application can read. So insecure deserialization is when hackers exploit untrusted data to render the applications resources useless, like a denial of service attack, or even execute code inside your application. So securing this process is crucial to protect your users.

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