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CheatSheetSeries

by OWASP

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About

The OWASP Cheat Sheet Series provides concise, high-value security best practices to help developers build secure applications.

The OWASP Cheat Sheet Series was created to provide a concise collection of high value information on specific application security topics.

Primary Use Case

This tool is primarily used by application developers, security professionals, and auditors to quickly reference best practices and guidelines for securing software applications. It serves as a practical resource for security training, risk assessment, and compliance auditing by offering clear, focused cheat sheets on specific application security topics.

Key Features
  • Comprehensive collection of application security best practices
  • Concise and focused cheat sheets on specific security topics
  • Open source and community-driven with active contributions
  • Available both online and as an offline downloadable bundle
  • Supports local and containerized builds for offline use
  • Facilitates security training, risk assessment, and compliance auditing
  • Maintained by OWASP, a trusted authority in application security
Security Frameworks
Reconnaissance
Initial Access
Defense Evasion
Credential Access
Collection
Usage Insights
  • Integrate the cheat sheets into developer CI/CD pipelines to enforce security best practices early in the SDLC.
  • Use the cheat sheets as a baseline for purple team exercises to align red and blue team tactics on application security.
  • Leverage the documentation to train new developers and security auditors, reducing human error in application security.
  • Combine with automated static and dynamic analysis tools to enhance risk assessment and compliance auditing.
  • Host internal workshops using cheat sheets to improve cross-team communication between developers, security, and compliance teams.

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Security Profile
Red Team30%
Blue Team90%
Purple Team70%
Details
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International
LanguagePython
Open Issues599
Topics
owasp
code
security
cheatsheets
best-practices
appsec
application-security