Most developers treat OWASP Top 10 as a security checklist. Regulators don’t. They treat the same issues as legal violations. Imagine this scenario: Attackers divert users from your website to a fraudulent one. Around 500,000 customers have their data exposed — login details, payment information, travel records, even CVV numbers. Soon after, regulators step in. A fine is announced — initially in nine digits, later reduced, but still significant. At first glance, it looks like a large-scale breach caused by “poor security.” But break it down, and it becomes more precise: Users were redirected → a failure in application integrity Sensitive data was exposed → weak data protection controls Data was harvested at scale → lack of monitoring and detection What appears to be a single incident is actually a chain of well-known failures — many of which are outlined in the OWASP Top 10. And it didn’t stop at a security failure. It became a regulatory one.…