Achievements and Awards
OWASP recognizes the significant work that our volunteer community contributes regularly to help OWASP achieve its mission and remain a world leader in application security. OWASP grants financial and non-financial awards based on merit and community involvement. The following are current OWASP award initiatives:
WASPY
Each year there are many individuals who do amazing work, dedicating countless hours to share, improve, and strengthen the OWASP mission. Some of these individuals are well known to the community while others are not. The purpose of these awards is to bring recognition to those who “FLY UNDER THE RADAR”. These are the individuals who are passionate about OWASP, who contribute hours of their own free time to the organization to help improve the cyber-security world, yet seem to go unrecognized.
Distinguished Lifetime Memberships
Awarded by the Board for outstanding involvement in the organization over the course of many years.
Distinguished Lifetime Membership Awards
2023
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OWASP Distinguished Lifetime Award
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Simon Bennetts
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Ricardo Pereira
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Rick Mitchell
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Jim Manico
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2021
WASPY Awards
2022
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Chapter Person of the Year
Thomas Ljungberg Kristensen
Thomas has been developing secure software since graduating with a master’s degree in computer science from Aarhus University in 2006. He has created and tested software, tools and processes in and for large corporations in the finance, energy, and military sectors. Thomas currently runs his independent security consulting firm, WelcomeSecurity based in Silkeborg, Denmark, where he helps people and businesses view security as a business enabler and a value improvement instead of a cost and a pain – To welcome security in software development!
Since 2019, Thomas has been an active volunteer with the OWASP Aarhus, Denmark, chapter as co-chapter lead trying to make people aware of the excellent free resources from OWASP and providing a meeting place for people to talk about it-security and to network.
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Event Person of the Year
Izar Tarandach
Izar Tarandach is the Principal Security Engineer at Squarespace, a published author and presenter on Threat Modeling. With past tenures in leadership security positions at Autodesk, in a major hedge fund, DellEMC, RSA, IBM and others, he was a core contributor to SAFECode and a founding contributor to the IEEE Center for Security Design. He holds a masters degree in Computer Science/Security from Boston University and has served as an instructor in Digital Forensics and in Secure Development in grad-level courses. He co-leads the development of pytm, a threat-modeling-with-code OWASP Incubator project.
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Project Person of the Year
Nancy Gariche
Nancy is a Senior Developer Advocate for the GitHub Security Lab, where she helps security researchers and developers collaborate and communicate better. In her spare time co-leads the OWASP DevSlop Project and is a member of the AWS Community Builder group. Nancy was named one of the Top 20 Women Leaders in Cyber in Canada, 2021.
2021
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Outstanding Project - OWASP ZAP
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ZAP
See Simon (psiinon) and Rick’s interview here -
Rick Mitchell (kingthorin)
Rick’s focus on Web Application Security represents more than half of his 20+ year IT career. You may know him for his work as a co-lead of the ZAP project, however Rick can also be credited for his contributions to the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM), Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG), Vulnerable Web Applications Directory (VWAD), and OWASP community content. Rick is a security assessment and testing trainer for part of his work, a lightning talk presenter at the Ottawa OWASP chapter meetings and AppSec USA, OWASP Ottawa volunteer, and has helped with project promotion assessments during previous AppSec USA conferences. Rick enjoys helping others learn and challenge themselves, and strongly believes that together we can and do make the industry better. -
Ricardo Pereira
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Outstanding Educator
Tanya Janca
See interview here
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Outstanding Community Supporter
Tanya Janca
See interview here
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Oustanding Innovator
Bjoern Kimminich
See his interview here
2017
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Best Innovator
Seba Deleersnyder
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Best Mission Outreach
Mark Miller
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Best Community Supporter
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Nicole Becher
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Dinis Cruz
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Jeremy Long
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2016
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Global/Growing Category
Kathy Thaxton
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Innovation/Sharing Category
Owen Pendlebury
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Integrity/Learning Category
Eoin Keary
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Open/Leading Category
Dinis Cruz
2015
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Global/Growing for the United States Region
Jerry Hoff
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Global/Growing for the Latin American Region
John Vargas
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Global/Growing for the European Region
Jason Alexander
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Global/Growing for the Asia/Pacific/Middle East Region
John Patrick Lita
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Global/Growing for the African Region
Munir Njiru
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Innovation/Sharing Category for the United States Region
Jeremy Long
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Innovation/Sharing Category for the Latin American Region
Diego Ademir
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Innovation/Sharing Category for the European Region
Fiona Collins
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Innovation/Sharing Category for the Africa Region
Munir Njiru
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Integrity/Learning Category for the Caribbean Region
Johanna Curiel
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Integrity/Learning Category for the Asia/Pacific/Middle East Region
John Patrick Lita
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Integrity/Learning Category for the United States Region
Pedro Peralta
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Integrity/Learning Category for the European Region
OWASP Student Chapters Program Leaders (Antonis Manaras & Mateo Martinez)
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Open/Leading Category for the Caribbean Region
Johanna Curiel
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Open/Leading Category for the Latin American Region
Mateo Martinez
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Open/Leading Category for the United States Region
Jeremiah Grossman
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Open/Leading Category for the European Region
Eoin Keary
2014
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Best Platform Supporter
Johanna Curiel
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Best New Community Supporter
AppSecAPAC 2014 Team
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Best Mission Outreach
AppSecUSA 2013 Team
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Best Project Leader
Simon Bennetts
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Best Chapter Leader
Japan Chapter Leaders
2013
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Best Innovator
Abbas Naderi
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Best Mission Outreach
Martin Knobloch
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Best Community Supporter
Fabio Cerullo
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Best Project Leader
Simon Bennetts
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Best Chapter Leader
Tin Zaw, Richard Greenberg, Kelly Fitzgerald, Stuart Schwarz, & Edward Bonver (LA Chapter Leaders)
2012
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WASPY Award
Helen Gao
Helen received a certificate, a $1000 gift card, an iPad and a trophy.