Welcome to OWASP Top 10 Insights

Your Gateway to Safer Web Applications

The OWASP Top 10 is the gold standard for identifying and understanding critical web application security risks. Curated by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), this globally recognized list empowers organizations to prioritize and address the most pressing security challenges in today's digital landscape.

Why the OWASP Top 10?

• Awareness-Focused: The OWASP Top 10 is a guide to the most critical application security risks—designed to educate and prepare you for evolving threats.
• Data-Driven Precision: The 2021 list leverages insights from over 500,000 applications, making it the most comprehensive dataset in OWASP history.
• Expert Collaboration: Contributions include both data-driven insights from leading security organizations and survey feedback from industry experts worldwide.

How It's Built

The 2021 OWASP Top 10 combines data from:

• Eight categories driven by real-world application security data.
• Two categories based on industry-wide surveys, ensuring a broad and balanced perspective.

What's New in 2021?

Since the last update in 2017, the OWASP Top 10 has undergone significant changes to better address emerging threats:

• Three New Categories:
  • Insecure Design (NEW): emphasizes risks stemming from design flaws.
  • Software and Data Integrity Failures (NEW): focuses on trusted source vulnerabilities.
  • Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (NEW): highlights a rising attack vector.
• Four Updated Categories: Naming and scope adjustments in four categories reflect modernized security practices and terminology.
• Consolidation Efforts: Some categories were merged to better represent overlapping risk areas.

Note: The OWASP Top 10 may change every year.