Sensitive Data Is the Common Thread Across Most OWASP Top 10 Issues. Here's Why
The OWASP Top 10 is usually presented as a list of technical failures. Broken access control. Injection. Insecure design. Misconfiguration. Each category points to something that went wrong in the application. What it doesn’t say explicitly is what was actually at risk when it went wrong. In most real incidents, the answer is not “the application.” It’s the data inside it. Sensitive data is the reason attackers care about OWASP failures in the first place. Credentials.