Explain the OWASP Top 10 and which items are most relevant to DevOps engineers.

Hard Topic: System Design May 24, 2026

The OWASP Top 10 are the most critical web application security risks. Most relevant to DevOps:

  • A01: Broken Access Control — Enforce least privilege in IAM, K8s RBAC. Verify RBAC policies in code review.
  • A05: Security Misconfiguration — Public S3 buckets, default credentials, exposed management ports. Caught by infrastructure scanning tools like Checkov, tfsec.
  • A06: Vulnerable Components — Use Dependabot and Trivy to catch outdated dependencies with known CVEs.
  • A09: Security Logging Failures — Ensure CloudTrail, K8s audit logs, and application audit logs are enabled and shipped to a SIEM.
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