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Understanding The Top 10 OWASP Vulnerabilities

Cryptography and Security 2020-12-21 v1
Authors: Matthew Bach-Nutman
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Abstract

Understanding the common vulnerabilities in web applications help businesses be better prepared in protecting their data against such attacks. With the knowledge gained from research users and developers can be better equipped to deal with the most common attacks and form solutions to prevent future attacks against their web applications. Vulnerabilities exist in many forms within modern web applications which can be easily mitigated with investment of time and research.

Keywords

computer security web browsing cybersecurity

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@article{arxiv.2012.09960,
  title  = {Understanding The Top 10 OWASP Vulnerabilities},
  author = {Matthew Bach-Nutman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09960},
  year   = {2020}
}

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