Future frontiers: Why developers need to go beyond the OWASP Top 10 for secure coding mastery
Future frontiers: Why developers need to go beyond the OWASP Top 10 for secure coding mastery
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In 2021, we usher in a new era for the fabled OWASP Top 10. This latest release reveals some significant shake-ups, with Injection flaws finally being toppled from the top spot in favor of Broken Access Control vulnerabilities. Brand new entries like Insecure Design and Software and Data Integrity Failures show a trend towards vulnerability categories - rather than standalone security bugs - proving that the threat landscape and potential attack surface from the most common bugs are widening.
OWASP has always been the go-to authority on the most common and insidious security issues found in the software we use every day, and if there is any baseline for which organizations should strive, it’s conquering this top 10 with the help of security-trained developers. While many companies recognize this, we must start to cast a wider net with developer upskilling if the cybersecurity skills chasm is ever going to shrink, and have a positive impact on software safety in the face of crazy demand for code.
This white paper will dissect the new OWASP Top 10, including:
- The impact of vulnerability categories vs. individual problems
- Why architectural security is receiving renewed attention
- The value of the OWASP Top 10 as a baseline, and why companies need to plan their own list of developer upskilling priorities
- Why human-centered solutions for reducing vulnerabilities are a more holistic approach than tool-based defense.
Resources to get you started
Trust Agent by Secure Code Warrior
Discover SCW Trust Agent, an innovative solution designed to enhance security by aligning developer secure code knowledge and skills with the work they commit. It provides comprehensive visibility and controls across an organization's entire code repository, analyzing each commit against developers' secure code profiles. With SCW Trust Agent, organizations can strengthen their security posture, optimize development lifecycles, and scale developer-driven security.
Resources to get you started
Women in Security are Winning: How the AWSN is Setting Up a New Generation of Security Superwomen
Secure-by-Design is the latest initiative on everyone’s lips, and the Australian government, collaborating with CISA at the highest levels of global governance, is guiding a higher standard of software quality and security from vendors.
Women in Security are Winning: How the AWSN is Setting Up a New Generation of Security Superwomen
Secure-by-Design is the latest initiative on everyone’s lips, and the Australian government, collaborating with CISA at the highest levels of global governance, is guiding a higher standard of software quality and security from vendors.
SCW Trust Agent - Visibility and Control to Scale Developer Driven Security
SCW Trust Agent, introduced by Secure Code Warrior, offers security leaders the visibility and control needed to scale developer-driven security within organizations. By connecting to code repositories, it assesses code commit metadata, inspects developers, programming languages used, and shipment timestamps to determine developers' security knowledge.
Future frontiers: Why developers need to go beyond the OWASP Top 10 for secure coding mastery
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In 2021, we usher in a new era for the fabled OWASP Top 10. This latest release reveals some significant shake-ups, with Injection flaws finally being toppled from the top spot in favor of Broken Access Control vulnerabilities. Brand new entries like Insecure Design and Software and Data Integrity Failures show a trend towards vulnerability categories - rather than standalone security bugs - proving that the threat landscape and potential attack surface from the most common bugs are widening.
OWASP has always been the go-to authority on the most common and insidious security issues found in the software we use every day, and if there is any baseline for which organizations should strive, it’s conquering this top 10 with the help of security-trained developers. While many companies recognize this, we must start to cast a wider net with developer upskilling if the cybersecurity skills chasm is ever going to shrink, and have a positive impact on software safety in the face of crazy demand for code.
This white paper will dissect the new OWASP Top 10, including:
- The impact of vulnerability categories vs. individual problems
- Why architectural security is receiving renewed attention
- The value of the OWASP Top 10 as a baseline, and why companies need to plan their own list of developer upskilling priorities
- Why human-centered solutions for reducing vulnerabilities are a more holistic approach than tool-based defense.
Resources to get you started
Women in Security are Winning: How the AWSN is Setting Up a New Generation of Security Superwomen
Secure-by-Design is the latest initiative on everyone’s lips, and the Australian government, collaborating with CISA at the highest levels of global governance, is guiding a higher standard of software quality and security from vendors.
SCW Trust Agent - Visibility and Control to Scale Developer Driven Security
SCW Trust Agent, introduced by Secure Code Warrior, offers security leaders the visibility and control needed to scale developer-driven security within organizations. By connecting to code repositories, it assesses code commit metadata, inspects developers, programming languages used, and shipment timestamps to determine developers' security knowledge.
Trust Agent by Secure Code Warrior
Discover SCW Trust Agent, an innovative solution designed to enhance security by aligning developer secure code knowledge and skills with the work they commit. It provides comprehensive visibility and controls across an organization's entire code repository, analyzing each commit against developers' secure code profiles. With SCW Trust Agent, organizations can strengthen their security posture, optimize development lifecycles, and scale developer-driven security.