OWASP is the Open Web Application Security Project. It is an open community dedicated to enabling organizations to develop, purchase, and maintain applications that can be trusted. All of the OWASP tools, documents, forums, and chapters are free and open to anyone interested in improving application security. We advocate approaching application security as a “people, process, and technology” problem, because the most effective approaches to application security include improvements in all of these areas. 

The OWASP Foundation is a US 503(c)(3) organization that supports its community of developers in creating tools and libraries that help improve application security for organizations and developers across the world. These “OWASP projects”, like all content at OWASP, are open and free and as such, we mandate that any project created at OWASP is distributed under an approved OSS license.