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2025 OWASP Top 10

Explore the 2025 OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and build skills to identify, prevent, and mitigate critical application security risks.

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  • Skill level

    Intermediate

  • Time to complete

    Approx. 16 hours

  • Certificate of completion

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About this skill path

Stay ahead of today’s most critical application security risks with this comprehensive journey through the 2025 OWASP Top 10. This curated learning path explores the most significant vulnerabilities affecting modern software, equipping you with the knowledge to identify, prevent, and mitigate security threats across the development lifecycle. Each course focuses on a key risk area-from Broken Access Control and Security Misconfiguration to emerging concerns like Software Supply Chain Failures and Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions. You’ll build a strong foundation in secure design principles, authentication practices, cryptography, and monitoring-while gaining practical insight into how these issues manifest in real-world systems. Whether you’re a developer, architect, or security practitioner, this journey will help you strengthen your security mindset, reduce risk, and build more resilient applications aligned with industry best practices.

Syllabus

2 units • 10 courses
  • course 2025 OWASP Top 10: Broken Access Control (A01)
    course 2025 OWASP Top 10: Security Misconfiguration (A02)
    course 2025 OWASP Top 10: Software Supply Chain Failures (A03)
    course 2025 OWASP Top 10: Cryptographic Failures (A04)
    course 2025 OWASP Top 10: Injection (A05)
    course 2025 OWASP Top 10: Insecure Design (A06)
    course 2025 OWASP Top 10: Authentication Failures (A07)
    course 2025 OWASP Top 10: Software or Data Integrity Failures (A08)
    course 2025 OWASP Top 10: Logging and Alerting Failures (A09)
    course 2025 OWASP Top 10: Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions (A10)
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