OWASP Israel

Welcome

Welcome to OWASP Israel, one of the largest individual chapters in the world!

Local News

• Hope everyone is ok and staying safe in the current situation. The Global OWASP team are aware of the challenges we are facing and are there for us.
• Due to the current situation, OWASP membership is available without charge for people based in Israel (as well as Ukraine and the West Bank and Gaza). To register visit this page.
• Stay tuned for details on our next meetup!
• We have had some great meetups so far in 2024, check out our Chapter Meetings page.
• Thank you for attending AppSec IL 2023! It was a pleasure to see you after a long period of virtual conferences. Your presence made the event even more special and we are now planning for 2025!

Our activities

• We run frequent chapter meetings, see more details on the Meetings tab. Everyone is welcome to join us!
• We run the AppSec Israel conference. The next one is planned for May 2025!
• Certain OWASP resources have been translated to Hebrew.
• We have a variety of venues including a Facebook group, a LinkedIn group and a Slack channel where you can network with your community (see the sidebar for more details).

How you can be involved

We would love for you to be involved in the chapter:

• If you have space for ~100 AppSec aficionados and would like to host one of our meetups, please complete the form here:
  • Call for Hosts - OWASP IL Chapter Meetups
• If you have something cool to share with us and would like to speak at a meetup, please complete the form here:
  • Call for Papers - OWASP IL Chapter Meetups
• If you would like to help out with the chapter, speak to Ori Troyna.
• Spreading the Word - Please help us to reach out to more people, especially outside of the AppSec community by sending them our way.
• To keep up to date about the chapter, you can subscribe to our mailing list, or check out the other social media accounts on the sidebar!

Hebrew Translations

• The OWASP Top 10, 2013 version was translated to Hebrew! is now available for download.
• The OWASP Risk Rating Methodology has been translated to Hebrew, and is available for download in PDF format. Much thanks to Tal Argoni from TriadSec.

What is OWASP?

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the security of software. All of our projects ,tools, documents, forums, and chapters are free and open to anyone interested in improving application security.

Chapters are led by local leaders in accordance with the Chapter Leader Handbook. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP Project, independent research, or related software security topic you would like to present.

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate in our Projects, Local Chapters, Events, Online Groups, and Community Slack Channel. We especially encourage diversity in all our initiatives. OWASP is a fantastic place to learn about application security, to network, and even to build your reputation as an expert. We also encourage you to be become a member or consider a donation to support our ongoing work.