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# Overview

If you look at job postings for Application Security Engineers you will find a number of common skills which regularly come up.  

* Threat Modeling
* Conducting Application Security Reviews
* Dev Team Outreach
* Familiarity with OWASP Top Ten
* SAST
* DAST
* Experience with Common Exploit Tools
* Cloud Security Experience (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
* Written and Verbal Communication
* Linux
* Knowledge of common authentication technologies