Original Post: OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities: Essential Guide for Web Security in 2024 | by Anurag Srivastava | Sep, 2024
The article by Anurag Srivastava on Medium discusses the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities for 2024, emphasizing their importance in web security for developers and security professionals. It breaks down each vulnerability with real-world examples and mitigation strategies. The vulnerabilities include:
- Broken Access Control: Improper restriction of resource access.
- Cryptographic Failures: Inadequate protection of sensitive data.
- Injection: Untrusted data into an interpreter leading to commands or queries.
- Insecure Design: Flaws in application architecture.
- Security Misconfiguration: Improperly defined or maintained security settings.
- Vulnerable and Outdated Components: Use of components with known vulnerabilities.
- Identification and Authentication Failures: Weaknesses in authentication and session management.
- Software and Data Integrity Failures: Failure to verify the integrity of updates, data, or CI/CD pipelines.
- Security Logging and Monitoring Failures: Lack of sufficient logging and monitoring.
- Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF): Fetching remote resources without proper URL validation.
The article underscores the need for regular updates, robust access control, encryption, validation, threat modeling, and continuous monitoring to enhance web security. It advocates a proactive, informed approach to mitigate these vulnerabilities effectively.
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