OWASP’s Guide to Strengthen Application Security | Qualys

Summary: OWASP, founded in 2001 as an online community for software security, now publishes free, openly available documentation, tools, and standards, including the OWASP Top 10 list of the ten most critical web application security risks, updated every few years. The article cites the 2023 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report finding that PII is the most frequently breached and costliest record type, averaging $183 per customer record and $181 per employee record.
What you should know: The source ties over 60% of data breaches to software vulnerabilities and puts a per-record price on the most common breach target, so the cost of an unfixed flaw in your own code is measurable in dollars per customer record.

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Topics: Data Breaches
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