Project Leaders


Flagship Projects

Projects that have demonstrated strategic value to OWASP and application security as a whole


Standards Projects

OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS)

The OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) Project is a framework of security requirements that focus on defining the security controls required when designing, developing and testing modern web applications and web services.

OWASP CycloneDX

OWASP CycloneDX is a full-stack Bill of Materials (BOM) standard that provides advanced supply chain capabilities for cyber risk reduction.

Tool Projects

Documentation Projects

OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

The OWASP Cheat Sheet Series project provides a set of concise good practice guides for application developers and defenders to follow.

OWASP Mobile Application Security

The OWASP Mobile Application Security (MAS) project consists of a series of documents that establish a security standard for mobile apps and a comprehensive testing guide that covers the processes, techniques, and tools used during a mobile application security assessment, as well as an exhaustive set of test cases that enables testers to deliver consistent and complete results.

OWASP SAMM

A Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) that provides an effective and measurable way for all types of organizations to analyse and improve their software security posture.

OWASP Top Ten

The OWASP Top 10 is the reference standard for the most critical web application security risks. Adopting the OWASP Top 10 is perhaps the most effective first step towards changing your software development culture focused on producing secure code.

OWASP Web Security Testing Guide

The Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG) Project produces the premier cybersecurity testing resource for web application developers and security professionals.

Code Projects

OWASP Amass

An open source framework that helps information security professionals perform network mapping of attack surfaces and external asset discovery using open source intelligence gathering and reconnaissance techniques!

OWASP Defectdojo

The leading open source application vulnerability management tool built for DevOps and continuous security integration.

OWASP Dependency-Check

Dependency-Check is a Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool suite that identifies project dependencies and checks if there are any known, publicly disclosed, vulnerabilities.

OWASP Dependency-Track

Intelligent Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain.

OWASP Juice Shop

Probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application for security trainings, awareness demos and CTFs. Also great voluntary guinea pig for your security tools and DevSecOps pipelines!

OWASP CRS

The OWASP CRS is a set of generic attack detection rules for use with ModSecurity or compatible web application firewalls. The CRS aims to protect web applications from a wide range of attacks, including the OWASP Top Ten, with a minimum of false alerts.

OWASP OWTF

Offensive Web Testing Framework (OWTF), is an OWASP+PTES focused try to unite great tools and make pen testing more efficient, written mostly in Python.

OWASP Security Shepherd

OWASP Security Shepherd is a web and mobile application security training platform. Security Shepherd has been designed to foster and improve security awareness among a varied skill-set demographic. The aim of this project is to take AppSec novices or experienced engineers and sharpen their penetration testing skillset to security expert status.