What is OWASP?

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)

OWASP

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving web-based application software security. Best known for its top ten list of software vulnerabilities associated with website applications, OWASP also has a multitude of useful guidelines on its website, www.owasp.org.

OWASP is a resource that should be actively used by web application programmers to prevent vulnerabilities that are common in web applications. This site has tons of resources to assist developers in producing better and more secure apps.

OWASP TOP 10

• A01:2021-Broken Access Control moves up from the fifth position to the category with the most serious web application security risk; the contributed data indicates that on average, 3.81% of applications tested had one or more Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs) with more than 318k occurrences of CWEs in this risk category. The 34 CWEs mapped to Broken Access Control had more occurrences in applications than any other category.
• A02:2021-Cryptographic Failures shifts up one position to #2, previously known as…