An Internet community focused on understanding web technologies and exploitations. Their goal is to help anyone with a website improve the security of their site through defensive programming, design and configuration. Their approach includes understanding attacks in order to know how to defend against them. OWASP offers numerous tools and utilities related to website vulnerability evaluation and discovery as well as a significant amount of training and reference material related to all things web security.
A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. (December 2022) |
The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) is an online community that produces freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security. The OWASP provides free and open resources. It is led by a non-profit called The OWASP Foundation. The OWASP Top 10 - 2021 is the published result of recent research based on comprehensive data compiled from over 40 partner organizations.
| Founded | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Mark Curphey |
| Type | 501(c)(3) Nonprofit organization |
| Focus | Web Security, Application Security, Vulnerability Assessment |
| Method | Industry standards, Conferences, Workshops |
| Grant Ongers, Chair; Avi Douglen, Vice-Chair; Bil Corry, Treasurer; Matt Tesauro, Secretary; Glenn ten Cate, Mark Curphey, Vandana Verma | |
Key people | Andrew van der Stock, Executive Director; Kelly Santalucia, Director of Events and Corporate Support; Harold Blankenship, Director Projects and Technology; Dawn Aitken, Operations Manager; Lisa Jones, Chapter and Membership Manager; Lauren Thomas, Event Coordinator |
Revenue (2017) |  $2.3 million |
Employees | 0 (2020) |
Volunteers | approx. 13,000 (2017) |
| Website | owasp |
