OWASP Top 10 specialists for your dedicated team.
The OWASP Top 10 is an awareness document from the Open Worldwide Application Security Project listing the most critical security risks to web applications, such as broken access control, injection and cryptographic failures. The list is revised every few years from industry data, and teams use it as a shared vocabulary for secure code review, testing and developer training.
Where OWASP Top 10 fits in a long-term product team.
The list works best as a vocabulary for talking about risk. Broken access control, which leads it, covers a user reaching data or actions that belong to someone else, and it is found by reading how authorisation is enforced on every route, something a scanner can only partly see. Injection, cryptographic failures and insecure design each name a family of flaws, and the CWE entries mapped to each category give the detail a developer can act on.
Trouble starts when the list is treated as a checklist to pass. It is an awareness document, ranked from data on what goes wrong most often, and an application can clear all ten categories and still fail on business logic: a discount applied twice, a refund issued to the wrong account. For testable requirements, OWASP publishes the Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS), and the pairing that works is the Top 10 to prioritise and ASVS to verify.
What your dedicated team does with OWASP Top 10.
Each category maps to habits in a codebase, and habits drift. A new endpoint written in a hurry skips the authorisation check the others share; a new library brings its own way of building queries. Catching that takes someone who reviews pull requests on the product week after week and knows where its access rules live.
That standing review is the work of a security engineer embedded with the developers, held on a committed monthly capacity by a dedicated cybersecurity team.
Common OWASP Top 10 use cases.
- Access control reviewed route by route Authorisation checked on every endpoint, the category automated scanners see least of.
- Developer training in a shared language Findings explained by category, so each fix comes with the reason behind it.
- Priorities for a first assessment An existing application reviewed against the list first, with ASVS requirements added where more depth is needed.
Adding OWASP Top 10 skills to your team.
Secure code review against the Top 10 is part of one committed monthly capacity across the security discipline, set alongside the development work it reviews.
OWASP Top 10 specialists join your team remotely as dedicated, full-time team members, selected, employed and managed by us in Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Companies that hire offshore developers through Azendo add the skill at the next monthly cycle.
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