Injection attacks dominate the MITRE 2025 CWE Top 25—with XSS ranked #1, SQL injection #2, and OS command injection holding the highest count of CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Yet developers still juggle fragmented tools: one library for HTML sanitization, another for SQL, manual validation for paths and shell arguments. This context fragmentation creates gaps attackers exploit.

This session introduces go-safeinput, an open-source Go library providing unified, context-aware sanitization across all major injection categories through a single API. You will learn:

1. Why existing solutions fall short: Context fragmentation, lack of defense-in-depth, and supply-chain risks from excessive dependencies
2. The unified approach: One API that automatically applies the right sanitization for HTML, SQL identifiers, file paths, URL components, shell arguments, and deserialization
3. Real-world implementation: Live demonstration securing a vulnerable application against XSS, SQL injection, path traversal, command injection, and unsafe deserialization
4. Compliance alignment: How unified input validation supports NIST SP 800-53, CMMC, and federal security requirements

Whether you're building enterprise applications, federal systems, or open-source projects, you'll leave with practical techniques to reduce your injection vulnerability surface using defense-in-depth strategies that don't sacrifice developer productivity.