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What is OWASP Top 10?

A regularly updated list of the ten most critical web application security risks, published by the Open Web Application Security Project.

The OWASP Top 10 is the industry standard for web security awareness. The current list includes Broken Access Control, Cryptographic Failures, Injection, Insecure Design, Security Misconfiguration, Vulnerable Components, Authentication Failures, Data Integrity Failures, Logging Failures, and SSRF.

Organizations use it as a baseline for security testing and compliance. OWASP also provides testing guides, tools (ZAP), and cheat sheets for secure development practices.

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SOC (Security Operations Center)
A centralized team and facility responsible for monitoring, detecting, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity threats 24/7.
SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
Automated analysis of source code to find security vulnerabilities without executing the application.
DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing)
Testing a running application from the outside by sending malicious requests to discover security vulnerabilities.
API Security
Practices and mechanisms for protecting APIs from unauthorized access, data breaches, and abuse.
Encryption
The process of converting readable data into an unreadable format using algorithms, reversible only with the correct key.
CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
An attack that tricks authenticated users into submitting unwanted requests to a web application they are logged into.
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