ZAP (zaproxy)
Tool and Usage
The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) helps to find security vulnerabilities in web applications during development and testing.
Introduction
ZAP is an intercepting proxy of web traffic. You will need to configure your browser to connect to the web application you wish to test through ZAP.
Note: Zed Attack Proxy, or ZAP, is also known as zaproxy.
Usage and audience
ZAP is commonly used for penetration test, security assessment, or software testing. Target users for this tool are pentesters and security professionals.
Tool review
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 50 contributors
- + More than 2000 GitHub stars
- + Many maintainers
- + The source code of this software is available
Weaknesses
- - Many reported issues are still open
History and highlights
- Demoed at Black Hat Europe 2016
Author and Maintainers
ZAP is under development by Simon Bennetts. This project is currently maintained by Goran Sarenkapa, Ricardo Pereira, Rick Mitchell, Sherif Mansour, Simon Bennetts.
Installation
Support operating systems
ZAP is known to work on Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.
ZAP alternatives
| Project details | |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 2.6.0 [2017-03-29] |
| License(s) | Apache License 2.0 |
| Last updated | Sept. 19, 2017 |
Project health
100
This score is calculated by different factors, like project age, last release date, etc.Links
 | zaproxy GitHub project |
 | @zaproxy |
| zaproxy project website |
