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The goal of the Top 10 project is to raise awareness about application security by identifying some of the most critical risks facing organizations. The Top 10 project is referenced by many standards, books, tools, and organizations, including MITRE, PCI DSS, DISA, FTC, and many more. The OWASP Top 10 was first released in 2003, with minor updates in 2004 and 2007. The 2010 version was revamped to prioritize by risk, not just prevalence, and this pattern was continued in 2013 and this latest 2017 release.
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We encourage you to use the Top 10 to get your organization started with application security. Developers can learn from the mistakes of other organizations. Executives should start thinking about how to manage the risk that software applications and APIs create in their enterprise.  
digital infrastructure gets increasingly complex and
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In the long term, we encourage you to create an application security program that is compatible with your culture and technology. These programs come in all shapes and sizes, and you should avoid attempting to do everything prescribed in some process model. Instead, leverage your organization’s existing strengths to do and measure what works for you.
interconnected, the difficulty of achieving application
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We hope that the OWASP Top 10 is useful to your application security efforts. Please don’t hesitate to contact OWASP with your questions, comments, and ideas, either publicly to [mailto:[email protected]  [email protected]] or privately to [mailto:[email protected] [email protected]]. {{Top_10_2010:SubsectionAdvancedTemplate|type={{Top_10_2010:StyleTemplate}}|subsection=freetext|position=right|title={{Top_10:LanguageFile|text=aboutOWASP}}|year=2017|language=en}}
security increases exponentially. We can no longer afford to
 
tolerate relatively simple security problems like those
 
presented in this OWASP Top 10.
 
 
 
The goal of the Top 10 project is to raise awareness about
 
application security by identifying some of the most critical
 
risks facing organizations. The Top 10 project is referenced
 
by many standards, books, tools, and organizations, including
 
MITRE, PCI DSS, DISA, FTC, and [[Industry:Citations|many more]]. This release of
 
the OWASP Top 10 marks this project’s tenth anniversary of
 
raising awareness of the importance of application security
 
risks. The OWASP Top 10 was first released in 2003, with
 
minor updates in 2004 and 2007. The 2010 version was
 
revamped to prioritize by risk, not just prevalence. This 2017
 
edition follows the same approach.
 
 
 
We encourage you to use the Top 10 to get your organization
 
started with application security. Developers can learn from
 
the mistakes of other organizations. Executives should start
 
thinking about how to manage the risk that software
 
applications create in their enterprise.
 
 
 
In the long term, we encourage you to create an application
 
security program that is compatible with your culture and
 
technology. These programs come in all shapes and sizes,
 
and you should avoid attempting to do everything prescribed
 
by some process model. Instead, leverage your
 
organization’s existing strengths to do and measure what
 
works for you.
 
 
 
We hope that the OWASP Top 10 is useful to your application
 
security efforts. Please don’t hesitate to contact OWASP with
 
your questions, comments, and ideas, either publicly to
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open community dedicated to enabling organizations to develop, purchase, and maintain applications that can be trusted.  At OWASP you’ll find free and open …
 
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Revision as of 16:02, 16 April 2017

NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE LATEST VERSION. Please visit the OWASP Top 10 project page to find the latest edition.

 
2017 Table of Contents

PDF version

Introduction →
Foreword
Insecure software is undermining our financial, healthcare, defense, energy, and other critical infrastructure. As our software becomes increasingly critical, complex, and connected, the difficulty of achieving application security increases exponentially. The rapid pace of modern software development processes makes risks even more critical to discover quickly and accurately. We can no longer afford to tolerate relatively simple security problems like those presented in this OWASP Top 10.

The goal of the Top 10 project is to raise awareness about application security by identifying some of the most critical risks facing organizations. The Top 10 project is referenced by many standards, books, tools, and organizations, including MITRE, PCI DSS, DISA, FTC, and many more. The OWASP Top 10 was first released in 2003, with minor updates in 2004 and 2007. The 2010 version was revamped to prioritize by risk, not just prevalence, and this pattern was continued in 2013 and this latest 2017 release. We encourage you to use the Top 10 to get your organization started with application security. Developers can learn from the mistakes of other organizations. Executives should start thinking about how to manage the risk that software applications and APIs create in their enterprise. In the long term, we encourage you to create an application security program that is compatible with your culture and technology. These programs come in all shapes and sizes, and you should avoid attempting to do everything prescribed in some process model. Instead, leverage your organization’s existing strengths to do and measure what works for you.

We hope that the OWASP Top 10 is useful to your application security efforts. Please don’t hesitate to contact OWASP with your questions, comments, and ideas, either publicly to [email protected] or privately to [email protected].
About OWASP

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