2021-08-02T02:49:00Z

What are the OWASP Top 10 in 2021?

Hi peers,

What are the OWASP Top 10 this year? 

What single web app security tool (or a minimum set of tools) would you recommend for overall web app protection (from the most critical security risks covered by these Top 10)?

EB
Director of Community at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
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Top 20
2021-08-05T17:23:27Z
Aug 5, 2021

We are due to release the OWASP Top 10 2021 on September 24, 2021. We will be transitioning to GitHub from our private work area soon. There will be three new categories, and some surprising coalescing for many of you who have been using the OWASP Top 10 since 2003. This means it is changing, and we've made an impact in our previous releases.

CY
DevSecOps Evangelist & Coach at Shiftleft
Vendor
Top 10
Oct 13, 2021

The history of the OWASP Top 10 through the years:
https://www.hahwul.com/cullina...

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VG
Chief Architect at Peristent Systems
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Top 5Leaderboard
2021-10-11T07:44:29Z
Oct 11, 2021

Believe no single tool will address all OWASP Top 10 issues. One will need a combination of tools and approaches as was also mentioned in the recent OWASP anniversary webinars.


A01-2021: Broken Access Control has moved to number 1 on the list this year compared to number 5 in 2017.


There are 3 new entries - Insecure design being at number 4. This is to me is a great addition and something which is complex to assess and fix easily.

CY
DevSecOps Evangelist & Coach at Shiftleft
Vendor
Top 10
2021-08-05T12:12:12Z
Aug 5, 2021

I’m not sure the top 10 is changing this year but if it is it will be to squeeze more stuff in ;-). 


To effectively detect these in a web app you need a status analyzer with deep data flow analysis. I joined ShiftLeft because I felt they had the best tool to change the way we think about SAST scans and it can do reachability analysis for OSS components to better understand the risk associated with vulnerable libraries and frameworks.

CY
DevSecOps Evangelist & Coach at Shiftleft
Vendor
Top 10
Aug 9, 2021

@Andrew Van Der Stock thanks, I’ll be sure to look for it.

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EB
Director of Community at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Community Manager
2021-08-02T03:00:37Z
Aug 2, 2021

Hi @Nagaraj Sheshachalam, @Kashif-Jamil, @Cuneyt KALPAKOGLU Phd., @Letsogile-Baloi , @VishalDhamke, @Enayat Galsulkar, @Etienne WEHRLE and @Vipin Garg


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