OWASP Top 10 Still Catches Indian Dev Teams Off Guard. Here's Why

Published by Anvexa Security Solutions.

Broken access control, injection and security misconfiguration are established application security risks. OWASP guidance helps teams organise their testing, but each application also needs checks based on its own roles, data and business workflows.

The cause is rarely a lack of skill. It is how the work is planned. Sprints are judged on features shipped, and a security review is one more thing that can push the release date. So it gets skipped, and the same classes of bug go live again.

Broken access control is the classic example. A user changes an ID in the URL and sees someone else's invoice. It is easy to fix but easy to miss, because each developer tests that their own feature works, not that it fails for the wrong person.

You can catch a lot with cheap guardrails in the pipeline. Run dependency scanning so you know when a library has a known vulnerability. Add secret scanning so API keys don't end up in Git. Put a short security checklist in your pull-request template, with three or four questions the author must answer.

Automated checks won't find everything, though. Once or twice a year, have someone test your most sensitive flows by hand: login and password reset, payments, and anything that exports data. That is where an attacker would go first.