Web Application Security & OWASP Top 10
Overview
Web Application Security & OWASP Top 10 teaches the vulnerabilities that continue to affect modern applications, from broken access control and injection to insecure design, authentication failures, misconfiguration, and vulnerable components. The course connects each OWASP category to realistic development and testing scenarios.
The focus is practical and defensive as much as offensive. You will learn how vulnerabilities are introduced, how to test for them safely, how exploitation changes impact, and how to recommend fixes that fit real engineering teams. The course is useful for security analysts, developers, QA engineers, and anyone responsible for reducing application risk.
What you'll learn
- The current OWASP Top 10 categories and how they appear in real applications
- Authentication, authorization, session management, and access control testing
- Injection, cross-site scripting, server-side request forgery, and deserialization concepts
- Security misconfiguration, vulnerable dependencies, and software supply chain risks
- Secure design principles that prevent common classes of bugs
- How to use intercepting proxies and testing workflows responsibly
- How to write developer-friendly remediation guidance
Prerequisites
Participants should understand basic web concepts such as HTTP, browsers, APIs, cookies, and client-server communication. Programming experience is helpful but not required. Learners who have completed networking fundamentals or beginner ethical hacking training will be well prepared.
Outcomes
By the end of the course, you will be able to identify and explain the most important web application security risks, validate common findings safely, and communicate remediation steps in terms developers can use. You will also understand how OWASP guidance supports secure development, testing, and prioritization.