OWASP's Critical Threats: How to Protect Your API from the Web's Most Dangerous Vulnerabilities

OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities remain the most exploited weaknesses in modern web applications, with broken access control and cryptographic failures driving the majority of real-world breaches. Understanding how these flaws manifest in code and implementing fixes from day one is critical to preventing account takeovers and data leaks at scale. Developers who adopt secure patterns early avoid costly security retrofits and build systems that users can actually trust.