The OWASP Top 10 has long been a go-to reference for the most critical security risks to web applications. Despite being well-known, we've previously written about it being underused in the software development process and cautioned against ignoring OWASP Top 10.
What is less well-known is that OWASP also publishes similar top 10 lists for other categories. The OWASP Top 10 list for LLMs, whose first major version was released early August, highlights risks such as prompt injection, insecure output handling, training data poisoning and others that individuals and teams building LLM applications would do well to be aware of. OWASP has also recently released the second version of its OWASP Top 10 list for APIs. Given the OWASP Top 10 lists' breadth of coverage (web applications, APIs, LLMs and more), quality and relevance to the continuously changing security landscape, we extend our previous recommendation to caution teams against ignoring OWASP Top 10 lists.
