Predicting the Next OWASP API Security Top 10

guest · Nov 4, 2021

Predicting the Next OWASP API Security Top 10
November 3, 2021
https://threatpost.com/owasp-api-security-top-10/175961/

As a long-time OWASP member and application security practitioner, I wanted to share my thoughts on how the newly released OWASP Web App Top 10 might impact or influence the updates to the API Security Top 10, last released back in December 2019.

These lists cover the most common causes for security events. Web App Top 10 was recently updated to reflect the ever-changing application and threat landscape. You can read more about the categories that were added, changed or expanded in scope here.
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In its current form, the API Security Top 10 has roughly a 60 percent overlap with the 2017 Web App Top 10.

Since the release of the API Top 10, both API usage and related security concerns have changed. Even so, many parallels can be drawn from the API Top Ten and the new Web App Top 10:
I expect that there will be some overlap with the new Web App list, but with a smattering of API-specific threats—perhaps something like this: [...]
Let’s go through the predictions for that future list.
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