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OWASP Top 10 Compliance

The Challenge

The OWASP Top 10 represents the most critical security risks facing web applications, including injection flaws, broken authentication, sensitive data exposure, and cross-site scripting (XSS). Security auditors, penetration testers, and compliance frameworks consistently reference the OWASP Top 10 as the baseline security standard that all web applications must meet.

Remediating OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities in application code requires significant engineering effort and deep security expertise. Each vulnerability class—SQL injection, XSS, insecure deserialization, and others—demands different mitigation strategies involving input validation, output encoding, authentication improvements, and architectural changes. For complex applications with large codebases, achieving comprehensive OWASP Top 10 compliance can take months of dedicated security engineering work.

The business consequences of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities are severe. Security assessments flag these issues as critical findings that block enterprise deals and regulatory certifications. Active exploitation leads to data breaches, account compromises, and regulatory fines. Meanwhile, development teams face pressure to both remediate security vulnerabilities and ship new features, creating ongoing tension between security requirements and product roadmaps.

How Expedited Security Helps

Expedited Security provides automated protection against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities at the application edge, implementing security controls before requests reach your code. Our Web Application Firewall (WAF) analyzes incoming traffic for attack patterns associated with injection, XSS, broken authentication, and other OWASP Top 10 threats, blocking exploits while allowing legitimate requests to proceed.

Key Features

  • Injection Attack Prevention: Detect and block SQL injection, NoSQL injection, LDAP injection, and OS command injection attempts through pattern analysis and input validation at the edge.

  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Protection: Identify and neutralize reflected, stored, and DOM-based XSS attacks by analyzing request parameters, headers, and payloads for malicious scripts.

  • Broken Authentication Defense: Prevent credential stuffing, brute force attacks, and session hijacking with rate limiting, bot detection, and session security controls.

  • Security Misconfiguration Guards: Enforce security best practices including security headers, HTTPS redirection, and proper error handling that prevent information disclosure and attack surface exposure.

Benefits

  • Pass security audits and penetration tests by demonstrating protection against all OWASP Top 10 vulnerability classes
  • Achieve compliance requirements faster by implementing security controls without extensive code modifications
  • Reduce security remediation costs by addressing multiple OWASP Top 10 categories through edge protection
  • Maintain protection as OWASP updates its Top 10 list with automatic rule updates based on emerging threats

Implementation

For Heroku Applications

Expedited Security integrates with Heroku applications as a protective layer in front of your dynos, analyzing all incoming traffic for OWASP Top 10 attack patterns before requests reach your application code. This approach provides immediate protection while your team works on code-level remediation for long-term security improvements.

Configuration is flexible and comprehensive: enable pre-built OWASP Top 10 protection rules for immediate coverage, customize rules for your application’s specific attack surface, and use monitoring mode to test rule effectiveness before full enforcement. Detailed logs and analytics help you understand attack patterns and refine your protection strategy.

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For Other Platforms

Expedited Security’s OWASP Top 10 protection works with applications on any infrastructure. Our WAF supports AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, and self-hosted environments, providing the same comprehensive protection regardless of your platform. Contact our team to discuss protecting your specific technology stack.

Build defense-in-depth against web application vulnerabilities:

  • Virtual Patching - Apply temporary security fixes while you develop permanent remediation for OWASP vulnerabilities
  • Compliance (GDPR/PCI/SOC2) - Meet regulatory requirements that mandate OWASP Top 10 protection

Get Started

Achieve OWASP Top 10 compliance faster with automated edge protection. Schedule a demo to see how our WAF blocks OWASP Top 10 attacks, or start protecting your application immediately with our self-service option.

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