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Infosec — John Wagnon

OWASP Top 10 - Welcome and Risks 1-5

Explore Infosec’s course on OWASP risk assessment, broken access control, cryptographic failures, injection, insecure design and misconfiguration.

PaidIntermediate4–10 hoursEnglishCertificateWeb Security
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Course overview

Infosec explains how the OWASP Top Ten is assembled before examining its first five risk categories in the published syllabus. Access control, cryptography, injection, design and configuration supply distinct cases. It suits learners who want to connect a category with organizational risk, while checking the edition against current OWASP guidance rather than assuming the numbering stays fixed.

What you will learn

  • Explore OWASP risk ranking and its limits.
  • Examine access-control, injection and cryptographic failures.
  • Connect design and configuration with application risk.

Who this suits

Intermediate learners with enough application knowledge to follow security examples. The listed categories follow the earlier OWASP structure; compare them with the current edition.

Before you enroll

Practice in a course lab or an application you are authorized to test, using fictional accounts and sample data. Security tools and framework defaults change, so compare examples with current documentation. A passing exercise or AI-generated suggestion does not establish that an application is secure; explain the threat, the control and how you verified its behavior.

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Put it into practice

Choose a fictional application feature and identify a relevant risk category. Explain the possible impact and a control, then compare how the current OWASP edition describes that concern.

Source and review

This overview is based on the provider's published information, checked on . It is an editorial assessment, not a claim that we completed the resource. Time filters are approximate study ranges; projects and exercises can take longer.

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At a glance

Provider
Coursera
Learning format
Course
Price
Paid
Level
Intermediate
Study time (approx.)
4–10 hours
Language
English
Certificate
Available; check provider terms
Created by
Infosec — John Wagnon
Category
Web Security
Subjects
Web Development, Development, Cybersecurity
Page updated
12 Oct 2026