OWASP top 10 Web Application Security for Absolute Beginners

Learn OWASP top 10 risks! Jumpstart your cyber security career; increase earnings! Cyber Security | CISO | Ransomware

Created by: Soerin Bipat
Teacher, PhD candidate, Security consultant and Entrepreneur

What Will I Learn?

• Be confident in explaining the OWASP top 10 during an interview
• Explain all OWASP top 10 threats short and impactful to get attention of managers
• Explain the impact per threat for your business
• Understand how the OWASP top 10 threats can be executed by attackers
• Understand how the OWASP top 10 threats may be mitigated
• Explain 'Injection' to your mom/dad
• Explain 'Insecure Deserialisation' to your non technical friends
• Understand best practices such as Defense in Depth and STRIDE
• CISO level understanding of OWASP

Requirements

• Interest in understanding of the concepts
• No coding or programming experience needed
• Open mind and a willingness to learn

Target audience

• (Project) managers that lead software projects
• Software architects that want to explain the OWASP top 10 to product owners
• Software engineers that want to advance their career
• Anyone interested in the basics of web application security, explained in layman’s terms
• Pentesters / Red team that need foundational understanding
• Recruiters that want to challenge software engineers
• Product Owners that care about their product