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Interview question · Application & API Security

What changed in the OWASP Top 10:2025 for web applications, and how would you use it in an AppSec programme?

Interviewers ask for the list to see whether you are current. They ask how you would use it to see whether you understand it is an awareness document, not a standard.

easyEssentialNewPreparation tags: Microsoft, Google, AmazonUpdated Nov 2026

Interviewers ask for the list to see whether you are current. They ask how you would use it to see whether you understand it is an awareness document, not a standard.

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  3. 03 Name a condition that would change your decision.

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Your manager asks you to use the OWASP Top 10:2025 to plan next quarter's application security work for a web platform.

  1. What does the 2025 list contain?
  2. What changed from 2021?
  3. How would you prioritise the quarter?
  4. How would you turn categories into work?
  5. What does the list not cover?
  6. How would you plan the quarter?

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