Projects/OWASP Periodic Table of Vulnerabilities/Roadmap

The end state of the project is to ensure that the community agrees about how each vulnerability is most efficiently eradicated. The Periodic Table captures that agreement in an easily referenceable form (or forms).

Ideally, the document will then influence the direction of many other OWASP projects and industry activities. For example, the Top 10 Defenses project might eventually choose to focus only on the issues that will require developer attention, or there may be different Top 10s for WAF vendors, framework developers, and browser vendors. A new project, similar to WASC OWASP Web Application Firewall Evaluation Criteria Project, could also be started based on the Table which measures how well frameworks are actually meeting the requirements to address certain vulnerabilities. Once there is agreement, the Table will remain generally static, while accommodating new vulnerability research or lessons learned from trying to apply the table to real world situations.

March 15, 2013
Finalize list of contributors and reviewers. Seeking representatives from each of the following industries and roles:


 * INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES
 * Banking / finance / insurance
 * E-commerce / merchant services
 * Health care
 * Browser vendors
 * Internet standards / governance
 * Application runtime testing / static analysis vendors
 * Web application firewall (WAF) vendors
 * Web application framework vendors/developers
 * ROLE TYPE REPRESENTATIVES
 * Web software developers
 * Web application architects
 * Penetration testers
 * Compliance owners, especially EU and international regulatory compliance

April 15, 2013
Define publication format(s) and start drafts

May 15, 2013
Complete drafts, open for peer review and comment

August 30, 2013
Close comment period, begin final editing process

September 30, 2013
Release v1.0 documents

October 2013
Draft presentation materials for OWASP USA 2013

November 20, 2013
Present 1.0 draft at OWASP USA

December 2013
Begin measuring browser compliance, standards support, WAF support, and framework compliance against table prescriptions.