The OWASP Top 10 is dead, long live the OWASP Top 10 !

The presentation
This presentation will cover the OWASP Top 10 - 2010 Release Candidate that is being released at the OWASP DC Conference. The OWASP Top 10 was originally released in 2003 to raise awareness of the importance of application security. As the field evolves, the Top 10 needs to be periodically updated to keep with up with the times. The Top 10 was updated in 2004 and the last update was in 2007, where it introduced Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) as the big new emerging web application security risk.

This update will be based on more sources of web application vulnerability information than the previous versions were when determining the new Top 10. It will also present this information in a more concise, compelling, and consumable manner, and include strong references to the many new openly available resources that can help address each issue, particularly OWASP's new Enterprise Security API (ESAPI) and Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) projects.

A significant change for this update will be that the OWASP Top 10 will be focused on the Top 10 Risks to Web Applications, not just the most common vulnerabilities. At the conference will be the debut of the release candidate of the new Top 10, which will open up a 60 day comment period. After that time, a final version will be produced and released in early 2010.

The speaker
Sebastien Deleersnyder, Lead Application Security, Telindus - Belgacom ICT Sebastien started the successful Belgian OWASP Chapter and performed several public presentations on web application and web services security. Sebastien specialises in (web) application security, combining his software development and information security experience. He is currently OWASP Foundation board member and responsible for the Telindus application security offering.