Secure Coding Practices for OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

Security is a core element of software products. If you are a software developer or the head of product engineering teams, you cannot ignore the importance of security measures in application development. In this blog, we bring you the new observations in the field of security and software products and the best security measures and practices for the Top 10 Vulnerabilities as stated by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). The following are OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities: Injection Broken Authentication Exposure to Sensitive Data XML External Entities Broken Access Control Security Misconfiguration Insecure Deserialization Insufficient Logging and Monitoring Cross Site Scripting Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities Injection: The most common type of vulnerability is any kind of injection flaw. These flaws are often found in SQL, XPath, NoSQL, LDAP, and other programming languages. During code review, the code can be looked at to find these holes. Static ...