Difference between revisions of "OWASP Zed Attack Proxy Project"

Latest News:

• 2012/06/13 Using ZAP for Security Regression tests video published
• 2012/06/04 Version 1.4.0.1 downloaded over 10,000 times
• 2012/05/28 Simon's Introduction to ZAP talk at App Sec USA becomes the most watched OWASP video on vimeo
• 2012/04/23 3 ZAP related Google Summer of Code 2012 projects accepted. To find out how these are progressing please see their wiki pages.
• 2012/04/23 OWASP ZAP SmartCard Project officially launched.
• 2012/04/08 Version 1.4.0.1 released
• 2012/02/10 Version 1.3.4 downloaded over 10,000 times
• 2012/02/01 OWASP ZAP is named the Toolsmith Tool of the Year for 2011!

ZAP is developed by a worldwide team of volunteers.

But we have also been helped by many organizations, either either financially or by encouraging their employees to work on ZAP:

• OWASP
• Mozilla
• Sage
• Google
• Microsoft
• Hacktics, Ernst & Young
• Taddong
• Denim Group
• SecureIdeas
• UtiliSec

Some of ZAP's features:

• Intercepting Proxy
• Automated scanner
• Passive scanner
• Brute Force scanner
• Spider
• Fuzzer
• Smartcard and Client Digital Certificates support
• Port scanner
• Dynamic SSL certificates
• API
• Beanshell integration

Some of ZAP's characteristics:

• Easy to install (just requires java 1.6)
• Ease of use a priority
• Comprehensive help pages
• Fully internationalized
• Under active development
• Open source
• Free (no paid for 'Pro' version)
• Cross platform
• Involvement actively encouraged

ZAP is a fork of the well regarded Paros Proxy.

ZAP supports the following languages:

• English
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Chinese
• Danish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Indonesian
• Japanese
• Persian
• Polish
• Spanish

Can you help improve these translations or add new ones? Please zaproxy-develop get in touch!

Details of previous releases can be found here

Release 1.4.0.1

Version 1_4_0.1 has just been released.

Compared to previous releases, the 1.4.0.1 release adds the following main features:

• Support for ZAP-Extensions (Plugable extensions)
• Syntax highlighting in the Response Panel
• fuzzdb integration
• Parameter analysis
• Enhanced XSS scanner
• Tons of bug-fixes and minor improvements

Future Releases

Future releases are likely to include:

• Fuzzing analysis
• API extensions
• Enhancements and fixes logged on the issues page

Involvement in the development of ZAP is actively encouraged!

You do not have to be a security expert in order to contribute.

Some of the ways you can help:

Feature Requests

Please raise new feature requests as enhancement requests here: http://code.google.com/p/zaproxy/issues/list

If there are existing requests you are also interested in then please 'star' them - that way we can see which features people are most interested in and can prioritize them accordingly.

Feedback

Please use the zaproxy-develop Google Group for feedback:

• What do like?
• What don't you like?
• What features could be made easier to use?
• How could the help pages be improved?

Log issues

Have you had a problem using ZAP?

If so and its not already been logged then please report it

Localization

Are you fluent in another language? Can you help translate ZAP into that language?

If so then please get in touch.

Development

If you fancy having a go at adding functionality to ZAP then please get in touch via the zaproxy-develop Google Group.

Again, you do not have to be a security expert to contribute code - working on ZAP could be great way to learn more about web application security!

If you actively contribute to ZAP then you will be invited to join the project.