148:) provides free and open resources. It is led by a non-profit called The OWASP Foundation. The OWASP Top 10 - 2017 results from recent research based on comprehensive data compiled from over 40 partner organizations. This data revealed approximately 2.3 million vulnerabilities across over 50,000 applications. According to the OWASP Top 10 - 2021, the ten most critical web application security risks include:
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258:(SAST) analyzes source code for security vulnerabilities during an application's development. Compared to DAST, SAST can be utilized even before the application is in an executable state. As SAST has access to the full source code it is a white-box approach. This can yield more detailed results but can result in many false positives that need to be manually verified.
268:) automatically detects vulnerabilities by crawling and analyzing websites. This method is highly scalable, easily integrated and quick. DAST tools are well suited for dealing with low-level attacks such as injection flaws but are not well suited to detect high-level flaws, e.g., logic or business logic flaws.
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195:OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls 2024
178:Software and Data Integrity Failures
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398:"Web Application Security Overview"
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225:Leverage Browser Security Features
172:Vulnerable and Outdated Components
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231:Stop Server Side Request Forgery
216:Secure by Default Configurations
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320:NIST Special Publication 800-53
246:Software Development Life Cycle
213:Address Security from the Start
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222:Implement Digital Identity
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169:Security Misconfiguration
81:Web application firewalls
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790:Arbitrary code execution
277:software instrumentation
204:Implement Access Control
46:Web application security
18:Web Application Security
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972:Privilege escalation
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1227:Categories
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1037:Web shells
977:Ransomware
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609:. Secodis.
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87:Approaches
992:Shellcode
987:Scareware
835:Crimeware
795:Backdoors
519:"Fuzzing"
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384:snikt.net
162:Injection
1166:Firewall
1071:Defenses
997:Spamming
982:Rootkits
955:Phishing
915:Exploits
540:10 April
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329:See also
120:Blackbox
110:Whitebox
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1007:Spyware
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