A tailored course, built for your situation
Reference of choice on cross-functional OWASP risk calls
How senior practitioners are using OWASP to align security, product, and engineering teams ahead of audit cycles
The situation this course is for
Teams build without OWASP guardrails, then escalate to you when risks surface. You're seen as a blocker, not a strategist. Context gets lost in handoffs. Your insight lands late, so fixes are costly.
Who this is for
Senior technical leader who bridges compliance, engineering, and product, credible but not always consulted early
Who this is not for
Individual contributors building standalone tools, junior developers, or auditors focused only on checklists
What you walk away with
- Lead OWASP-based threat modeling sessions with product and engineering leads
- Build reusable risk narratives that travel across project kickoffs
- Anticipate and resolve common implementation gaps in OWASP Top 10 integration
- Shape vendor and open-source library selection using OWASP ASVS
- Produce internal reference documents that persist beyond team changes
The 12 modules (with all 144 chapters)
- Understanding OWASP’s business value layers
- Linking API risks to customer trust
- Classifying data exposure by user role
- Matching threats to compliance obligations
- Prioritising by blast radius potential
- Integrating with incident response triggers
- Using DREAD models in practice
- Translating findings for non-technical leaders
- Common misapplications of OWASP severity
- Case study: payment workflow hardening
- Documenting organisational risk appetite
- Output: custom OWASP risk matrix template
- Integrating OWASP into RFC processes
- Preempting XSS in template decisions
- Securing API contracts before coding
- Avoiding injection flaws in ORM choices
- Building secure defaults into frameworks
- Embedding ASVS in user stories
- Working with tech leads on trade-offs
- Influencing library selection committees
- Detecting risky patterns in pull requests
- Creating guardrails in CI/CD pipelines
- Documenting design decisions for auditors
- Output: design-phase OWASP checklist
- Setting the stage for joint ownership
- Using OWASP to depersonalise risk debates
- Running threat modeling workshops
- Visualising attack surfaces collaboratively
- Handling pushback from velocity-focused teams
- Aligning on acceptable risk levels
- Incorporating red team feedback
- Building consensus on mitigation scope
- Escalating strategic trade-offs
- Tracking decisions in shared systems
- Maintaining momentum post-session
- Output: workshop facilitation playbook
- Assessing vendor documentation quality
- Evaluating ASVS alignment claims
- Running lightweight architecture interviews
- Scoping penetration testing requirements
- Interpreting SCA tool outputs
- Validating patch management promises
- Reviewing open-source dependency policies
- Benchmarking against industry peers
- Negotiating security clauses
- Tracking compliance over contract life
- Managing exceptions transparently
- Output: vendor review scorecard
- SOC 2 control mapping to OWASP items
- Aligning with ISO 27001 A.14 domains
- Linking GDPR Article 32 to Top 10
- Using NIST CSF to prioritise fixes
- Documenting compensating controls
- Evidence collection for penetration tests
- Preparing for external audit interviews
- Maintaining up-to-date risk registers
- Demonstrating continuous improvement
- Avoiding over-audit fatigue
- Communicating maturity to leadership
- Output: cross-framework alignment chart
- Identifying early adopter champions
- Sharing quick wins publicly
- Reducing friction for busy teams
- Creating ‘aha’ moments in reviews
- Offering templates instead of mandates
- Tracking adoption through proxies
- Celebrating team-level progress
- Using peer comparison responsibly
- Navigating political resistance
- Scaling through enablement
- Measuring cultural shift
- Output: adoption influence plan
- Rethinking trust boundaries in mesh networks
- Securing service-to-service auth
- Hardening container base images
- Managing secrets in Kubernetes
- Detecting misconfigurations in IaC
- Applying Zero Trust to API gateways
- Monitoring for suspicious behaviour
- Using policy as code frameworks
- Protecting observability pipelines
- Responding to supply chain alerts
- Adapting OWASP ASVS for ephemeral workloads
- Output: cloud-native OWASP guide
- Introducing risk debt concepts
- Prioritising fixes in backlog planning
- Estimating effort vs impact
- Using data breach simulations
- Balancing UX and security trade-offs
- Communicating risks to customers
- Building trust into feature launches
- Handling disclosure policies
- Creating user-facing transparency
- Aligning with legal requirements
- Maintaining velocity under scrutiny
- Output: product-risk briefing deck
- Classifying incidents by OWASP type
- Leveraging ASVS for containment
- Assessing blast radius by component
- Prioritising patch deployment
- Coordinating comms across teams
- Engaging legal and PR early
- Avoiding collateral damage
- Learning from near misses
- Updating playbooks post-event
- Automating repeatable responses
- Measuring response effectiveness
- Output: incident triage flowchart
- Setting team-level expectations
- Integrating into code reviews
- Mentoring junior developers
- Running secure coding workshops
- Tracking OWASP adherence metrics
- Reducing false positives in scans
- Building internal champions
- Creating feedback loops
- Rewarding secure practices
- Managing tooling fatigue
- Sustaining momentum after launch
- Output: engineering leader toolkit
- Positioning OWASP in SOC 2 reports
- Demonstrating proactive posture
- Avoiding overstatement risks
- Using OWASP in certification audits
- Preparing for regulator questions
- Aligning messaging across regions
- Responding to third-party inquiries
- Building public trust through transparency
- Managing disclosure timelines
- Documenting maturity progression
- Balancing openness and risk
- Output: compliance narrative template
- Updating policies with new threats
- Rotating review responsibilities
- Refreshing training content
- Measuring effectiveness over time
- Adapting to architectural shifts
- Engaging new team members
- Leveraging external benchmarks
- Sharing progress with executives
- Avoiding compliance theatre
- Recognising team contributions
- Planning for succession
- Output: sustainability roadmap
How this maps to your situation
- Before a major product launch
- During vendor security assessment
- After a penetration test finding
- Ahead of compliance audit season
Before vs. after
What's included with your purchase
- 12 modules with 12 chapters each (144 chapters)
- Downloadable templates and worked examples for every module
- Hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Delivery and format
- Course and learning environment access provisioned within 24 hours of purchase
- Hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access
Format: Text-based modules and chapters in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every chapter, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.
Time investment: Approximately 90 minutes per module, or 18 hours total, designed to fit around real project timelines.
How this compares to the alternatives
Unlike generic OWASP checklists or academic courses, this program focuses on how senior practitioners actually use the framework to gain influence, align teams, and reduce rework in high-velocity environments.
Frequently asked
Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.