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    What’s new in the OWASP Proactive Controls for 2024
    OWASP Top 10
    I have taught a number of application security classes to developers. When it comes to vulnerabilities, there's a sort of knowledge triad: How does the vulnerability occur? Mechanically, how does it work? Why is it dangerous? And how much damage does it have the potential to cause? What should be ...
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    Many Hands Approach To AppSec
    Many Hands Approach To AppSec
    "If you want to frustrate a good developer, interfere with their ability to complete work." - ...
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    Tartar Sauce for your Phishing Program
    Tartar Sauce for your Phishing Program
    Phishing awareness exercises have become a common part of the larger security strategy for many ...
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    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App: 5. Establishing a Dependency Patching Plan
    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App: 5. Establishing a Dependency Patching Plan
    Welcome to our comprehensive series on the Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App. This ...
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    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App: 4. Logging & Monitoring
    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App: 4. Logging & Monitoring
    Welcome to our comprehensive series on the Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App. This ...
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    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App: 3. Data Encryption & Protection
    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App: 3. Data Encryption & Protection
    Welcome to my comprehensive series on the Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App. This ...
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    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App: 2. Authentication & Authorization
    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App: 2. Authentication & Authorization
    Welcome to my comprehensive series on the Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App. This ...
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    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App: 1. Secure Coding
    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App: 1. Secure Coding
    Welcome to my comprehensive series on the Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App. For this ...
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    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App
    Top 5 Security Considerations for a New Web App
    There was a time when many folks responsible for building and deploying web applications were naive ...
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    Being Safe and Secure with Cross-Origin Messaging
    Being Safe and Secure with Cross-Origin Messaging
    security  |  JavaScript  |  application  |  web  |  cross-origin
    Complex web and mobile apps often depend on cross-domain interactions between different online ...
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    The reason I stopped using Postman for API Pentests
    The reason I stopped using Postman for API Pentests
    I’ve been a proponent of Postman for a number of years. I’ve written and spoken about using it in ...
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    Mission Imfuzzable: How to Fuzz Web Apps you can't Intercept
    Mission Imfuzzable: How to Fuzz Web Apps you can't Intercept
    Introduction Fuzzing is a critical technique for finding vulnerabilities in web applications by ...
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