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OWASP Cyber Security Pre-accelerator Initiative

The focus of this initiative is to create open source material such as documentation manuals, wiki page resources and piloting data that can be used by the application security community for the management of a security pre-accelerator program. The goal of this pre-accelerator program is to catalyse innovation in application security by promoting the use of OWASP resources (e.g. security testing tools, technical documentation, training modules) within the start-up community and in a roadmap of a creation of possible start-up whose business plan includes the use of these OWASP resources. The pre-incubator phase is the preliminary phase that leads to incubation of a possible start-up. This is the phase where ideas brainstorm and are validated with a Proof of Concepts PoCs and working software tools and prototypes. These PoCs might be funded by non-profit (e.g. academics) and for profit entities (e.g. vendors) and validated by the open source community. At a later stage some of these validated PoC might help the pre-incubator teams to seek funding for a security start up can create an opportunity for employment in the application security industry.

Goals

The goal of the pre-incubator is to create opportunities to transform ideas into validated concepts and onto POC (proof of concept) prototypes. To pursuit innovative ideas and development of (PoCs) Proof of Concepts of web and mobile applications that use both OWASP open source tools as well as commercial APIs. The pre-incubator will offer a structured place to work to pre-incubate ideas into working prototypes using OWASP funded projects with backing of corporate sponsorship also provided through OWASP. These PoS will be released to the open source community for validation and use as a free resource.

Benefits to OWASP

The OWASP pre-incubator security start-up project empowers OWASP to leverage academic institutions and corporate sponsors to promote projects for the development of open source tools, improve visibility to application security and foster the creation of team of software developers interested in experimenting with OWASP open source tools for the creation of new software products. By spearheading the incubation of new software prototypes OWASP will create the opportunity for software developers, software and application security testers and consultants to become self-sufficient in supporting the further development of software and services as a security start-up. These security start-ups will have the opportunity to leverage OWASP resources for their security consulting, application security training and secure software development services in full respect of legal agreements for the use of open source licenses when these are used in their commercial services or products.

OWASP won’t be involved in the creation of the start-up but in the funding and mentoring support of the creation of open source projects that are delivered by the teams enrolled in the pre-incubator start-up program. OWASP through his local chapters will provide in-person mentoring to help mature the PoC from pre-incubation phase to incubation based by providing connections to seek funds for incubate start-ups whose business plan include either the use of open source for their consulting services or further development of products that use open source libraries

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