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The OWASP Top 10 is a community-driven catalogue of the most critical web application security risks. It raises awareness, describes common vulnerabilities, and suggests mitigations for developers, architects, and security teams. It is used to prioritize testing, design controls, and compliance efforts.
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The OWASP Top 10 is a prioritised overview of common and consequential web application risks.
The OWASP Foundation created it to consolidate practical security knowledge into a regularly revised ranking; the first edition appeared in 2003.
It works as a security radar that helps teams prioritise risk classes such as access control and injection.
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It helps teams make owasp top 10 decisions explicit, reviewable, and safer in practice.
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