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OWASP Top 10

OWASP Top 10

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OWASP Top 10

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- [Narrator] We will now talk about mitigating common attacks, and whenever you think about the topic web application security, there is one source that comes to mind. It's the OWASP Top 10 list. OWASP stands for Open Web Application Security Project. The website is owasp.org. It is run by the OWASP Foundation and the idea is that OWASP is a non-for profit organization that's active all around the world providing conferences, meetings, other types of events, all around the topic of web application security, and their efforts also include software, how-tos, checklists, et cetera, but the most important, or let's say most well-known thing they do is they have something called the OWASP Top Ten list. It's a list, originally it was an annual list, but then it was released every three years and they didn't stick to that cadence every time, but basically it is a list of the most critical web application security risks. The way this works is that security researchers and then the OWASP Top…

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