Teaching OWASP Top 10 Through Visual Frameworks

In an era where cybersecurity threats evolve faster than documentation can track, theOWASP Top 10 remains a vital compass for developers, architects, and securityprofessionals. Yet its adoption often falters — not due to irrelevance, but because itsdelivery is static, textual, and divorced from the visual logic that governs moderncognition. This article proposes a methodology for teaching the OWASP Top 10through visual frameworks: glyphs, editorial motifs, and forensic metaphors thatcompress threat logic into deployable, timestamped assets. The methodology mapsmythological archetypes to modern threat vectors, enabling intuitive recall throughcultural memory while maintaining technical accuracy. See also, Model-First Reasoning × Myth-Tech: One Mechanism, Two Dialects https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18058049