Posted Thursday March 9, 2023
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We would love to be able to make ZAP even better for you - your feedback on how that could be funded would be appreciated!
Posted Thursday February 2, 2023
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The January 2023 updates including authentication improvements and future plans.
Posted Wednesday February 1, 2023
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How to configure ZAP to handle complex authentication using Selenium.
Posted Thursday January 19, 2023
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Handling authentication in automation is hard, but help is on its way.
Posted Tuesday January 3, 2023
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A summary of everything ZAP related that happened in 2022.
Posted Saturday December 24, 2022
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A reply to an excellent blog series from Secure Ideas: Twelve Days of ZAPmas - ZAP impressions from a Burp user.
Posted Thursday December 1, 2022
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The November 2022 updates, following the 2.12.0 release.
Posted Thursday November 3, 2022
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See the data behind the most popular active scan rules every month
Posted Thursday October 27, 2022
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ZAP 2.12.0 has just been released, and as the main zaproxy/zaproxy repo has just reached 10k stars we’re calling this the Ten Thousand Star Release
Posted Saturday October 1, 2022
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ZAP is participating in Hacktoberfest 2022.
Posted Friday September 30, 2022
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The September 2022 updates, including our new Platinum Supporter - Jit, GSoC 2022 success, more news on the forthcoming 2.12.0 release, and no less than 31 add-on updates!
Posted Wednesday September 14, 2022
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Simon’s work on ZAP is now sponsored by Jit.
Posted Tuesday September 13, 2022
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An overview of ZAP Extender scripts with examples. Use ZAP as a web server, subscribe to internal ZAP events, and more!
Posted Wednesday August 31, 2022
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All of the things that have been happening related to ZAP in August 2022.
Posted Tuesday August 30, 2022
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News about changes to the Traditional Spider for the up-coming release.
Posted Thursday August 25, 2022
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Setting up ZAP on the raspberry pi.
Posted Monday August 22, 2022
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The parameter discovery add-on for ZAP.
Posted Friday June 17, 2022
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Has ZAP helped you? Now it is your turn to help ZAP.
Posted Tuesday May 10, 2022
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An add-on aimed squarely at the pentesters.
Posted Thursday April 14, 2022
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How to solve the PortSwigger Lab: Username enumeration via account lock using ZAP scripts.
Posted Wednesday April 6, 2022
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How to solve the PortSwigger Lab: 2FA Broken Logic using ZAP.
Posted Monday April 4, 2022
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How to detect Spring4Shell with the new Spring4Shell Alpha Active Scan Rule.
Posted Tuesday March 29, 2022
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How to solve the PortSwigger Lab: Password Brute-force via Password Change using ZAP.
Posted Tuesday March 22, 2022
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StackHawk has launched a $100,000 ZAP Fund dedicated to improving ZAP and the ZAP Community.
Posted Wednesday February 16, 2022
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I am excited to share that we’ve just released the speaker lineup and schedule for the ZAPCon 2022! ZAPCon takes place on March 8-9, with one day of talks and one day of incredible workshops.
Posted Thursday February 10, 2022
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The ZAP Weekly and Live releases have an all new networking layer.
Posted Friday December 17, 2021
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ZAPCon is returning for its second year! The second annual ZAP user conference will take place on March 8, 2022 and the Call for Papers is open!.
Posted Tuesday December 14, 2021
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A walkthrough of using the new Log4Shell Alpha Active Scan rule with the ZAP Automation Framework.
Posted Friday December 10, 2021
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ZAP appears to be impacted by the Log4Shell vulnerability - CVE-2021-44228. We have released ZAP 2.11.1 which fixes the problem, this blog post gives more information and the impact on older versions of ZAP.
Posted Wednesday December 1, 2021
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Eval Villain was recently added to the ZAP Marketplace. This add-on installs the Eval Villain web extension in Firefox and allows the inspection of arguments to arbitrary native JavaScript functions.
Posted Friday November 26, 2021
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You can now launch your favourite browsers from ZAP with your favourite extensions.
Posted Wednesday November 24, 2021
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ZAP has been awarded the 2021 Waspy Award for Outstanding Project, as selected by OWASP Members.
Posted Monday October 25, 2021
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We are planning to add telemetry to ZAP - data that will tell us more about how ZAP is being used. This blog post explains why we are planning on doing this, what data we plan to collect, what data we will definitely not collect, the benefits you can expect, and how you will be able to opt out of it.
Posted Thursday October 7, 2021
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ZAP 2.11.0 (also known as the OWASP 20th anniversary release) is available now.
Major changes include:
Alert Tags Alerts can now be tagged with arbitrary keys or key=value pairs - this can be done via the desktop GUI and the API.
All of the active and passive scan rules have been updated to include tags for the OWASP Top 10 2021 and 2017.
Posted Monday August 23, 2021
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An overview of the features of the OAST add-on for OWASP ZAP. This add-on allows you to discover out-of-band vulnerabilities like SSRF.
Posted Monday August 23, 2021
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An overview of the features of the Retest add-on for OWASP ZAP. This add-on allows you to retest for previously generated alerts.
Posted Friday August 20, 2021
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Overview File upload is becoming a more and more essential part of any application, where the user is able to upload their photo, their CV, or a video showcasing a project they are working on. The application should be able to fend off bogus and malicious files in a way to keep the application and the users safe.
Posted Tuesday June 29, 2021
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The results of the Community Questionnaire which we ran during the first half of 2021.
Posted Tuesday June 15, 2021
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Important information for anyone who uses the baseline scan in the Live or Weekly Docker images.
Posted Monday April 19, 2021
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This blog post will show you how you can collect and publish statistics on your open source projects using free resources and open source scripts, based on the setup we have for ZAP.
Posted Monday March 29, 2021
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Do you know what interesting bits were added to ZAP 2.10.0? Don’t read release notes? This blog post is for you! Dark mode, Expand/Collapse top panes, Custom pages, Scriptable encode/decode/hash, Authentication polling, Auth header via ENV vars, Site tree control, and more.
Posted Friday March 12, 2021
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Help us add modern, useful and stylish reports to ZAP - the competition is now open until October 1st 2021.
Posted Thursday March 4, 2021
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Posted Wednesday February 10, 2021
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Write scripts in ZAP which will check a target application’s compliance against ASVS controls.
Posted Wednesday February 3, 2021
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You can access the ZAP Desktop even when it is running in Docker, and that means you do not have to install Java if you do not want to.
Posted Thursday January 28, 2021
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Today we are calling for topics and speakers in the first-ever OWASP ZAP User Conference!
Posted Monday December 21, 2020
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ZAP 2.10.0 has just been released so we’re treating this as a belated 10 year anniversary release!
Posted Tuesday September 22, 2020
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The Sites Tree is a key component of ZAP, and one whose purpose is often misunderstood. This blog post will explain why the Sites Tree is so important, how you can change it now and how you will be able to change it in the next ZAP release.
Posted Monday September 14, 2020
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How to give some colours to ZAP’s History tab. An introduction to passive scanning tags, its use cases, and the Neonmarker add-on.
Posted Sunday September 6, 2020
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On September 6th 2010 I posted this message to Bugtraq: Title - The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) version 1.0.0. From those very humble beginnings ZAP has now become what we believe is the world’s most frequently used web application scanner.
Posted Thursday September 3, 2020
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With the popularity of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) there comes the need to secure their use so that they are not misused because of bad configuration, older libraries, or buggy implementations. So the JWT Support add-on is used to find such vulnerabilities and this blog explains on how to use it.
Posted Friday August 28, 2020
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GraphQL Schemas can be very large and testing them can be a very time-consuming process. Currently, there is a lack of tools that allow developers to launch and automate attacks on these endpoints. The GraphQL add-on for ZAP intends to fill this gap.
The add-on is still in an early stage, so the range of its functionality is limited.
Posted Thursday June 4, 2020
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Do you know what interesting bits were added to ZAP 2.9.0? Don’t read release notes? This blog post is for you! Session Management Scripts, Proxy Info Display, Proxy Port Reservation Failure Handling, Options Panel(s) Filter, Active Scan Filter, and more.
Posted Friday May 15, 2020
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ZAP full scan GitHub action provides free dynamic application security testing (DAST) of your web applications. DAST is also known as black-box testing, which allows ZAP to identify potential vulnerabilities in your web applications. We previously introduced the ZAP baseline scan GitHub action to passively identify potential alerts in a web application.
Posted Monday May 11, 2020
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Did you know that you or your company/organization could customize the generic details of the alerts that ZAP raises?
Alerts raised by ZAP contain a variety of information, some generic, some specific to the issue at hand. Specific details may include things such as URL, parameter, values, etc. While generic details include things like a description, solution, and links to related background material and resources.
Posted Thursday April 9, 2020
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With the increasing number of web application security breaches, it is essential to keep your web application secure at all times. Furthermore having security integrated into your CI/CD pipeline (DevSecOps) will become a lifesaver if you are actively developing the application. To cater to this need ZAP provides a baseline scan feature to find common security faults in a web application without doing any active attacks.
Posted Thursday April 2, 2020
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I’ve stated that ZAP is the world’s most popular free and open source web application scanner on stage at security conferences around the world for many years. No one has ever contradicted me so it must be true :)
However I’ve started to wonder if ZAP is actually more popular than most if not all of the commercial scanners as well?
Posted Monday March 9, 2020
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Some vulnerabilities can only be found by sending payloads that cause a callback to the tester. One example is XXE vulnerabilities when the XML rendering result is not available to the user. ZAP can find these vulnerabilities that depend on SSRF detection but the target system needs to be able to reach the ZAP callback endpoint.
Posted Wednesday March 4, 2020
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We release ZAP every week: https://www.zaproxy.org/download/#weekly
We’re happy to announce that this week’s release includes the first steps towards an all new dark mode for the ZAP Desktop UI:
It’s early days - not all screens use suitable colours, but it should be mostly usable. To enable it in the weekly release:
Posted Monday March 2, 2020
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OK, OK, it’s been a long time since the last ZAP blog post. But we certainly have not been idle - since that last blog post we’ve published 3 full ZAP releases, well over 100 weekly releases and a shiny new web site: https://zaproxy.org/
Because we now have a new website we’ve decided to move our blog from https://zaproxy.
Posted Tuesday August 22, 2017
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We have just released a new feature for ZAP that allows you to launch browsers from within ZAP. The browsers are automatically configured to proxy via ZAP and ignore certificate warnings, making it much easier for people to get started with ZAP as well as for more experienced users who want to use ZAP with a variety of browsers.
Posted Monday June 19, 2017
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The previous ZAP blog post explained how you could Explore APIs with ZAP.
This blog post goes one step further, and explains how you can both explore and perform security scanning of APIs using ZAP from the command line.
This allows you to easily automate the scanning of your APIs.
Posted Monday April 3, 2017
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APIs can be challenging for security testing for a variety of reasons.
The first problem you will encounter is how to effectively explore an API - most APIs cannot be explored using browsing or standard spidering techniques.
However many APIs are described using technologies such as:
SOAP OpenAPI / Swagger These standards define the API endpoints and can be imported into ZAP using 2 optional add-ons.
Posted Monday February 6, 2017
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As modern web applications are increasing their reliance on JavaScript, security tools that do not understand JavaScript will not be able to work effectively with them. ZAP already has components like the Ajax Spider and DOM XSS scanner that work by launching browsers and controlling them via Selenium, and we are planning to make much more use of browsers in the future.
Posted Tuesday November 22, 2016
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Using ZAP during the development process is now easier than ever. We are proud to present the Jenkins plugin, it extends the functionality of the ZAP security tool into a CI Environment.
The process explained A Jenkins CI Build step initializes ZAP Traffic flows (Regression Pack) through ZAP (Web Proxy) ZAP modifies requests to include Vulnerability Tests Target Application/Server sends Response back through ZAP ZAP sends reporting data back to Jenkins Jenkins publishes and archives the report(s) Jenkins creates JIRA tickets for the alerts The ZAP Jenkins plugin makes use of the readily available and diverse ZAP API, allowing you to use the same session files and scan policy profiles between ZAP and the Jenkins plugin, so they can be interchangeably loaded.
Posted Monday August 22, 2016
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Unit tests are wonderful things, but they are painful to add to a mature project that doesn’t have enough of them. We would love to have more ZAP unit tests, and we are therefore launching a Unit Test Bounty program, where we pay for unit tests for specific areas of the ZAP codebase.
Posted Friday June 3, 2016
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ZAP 2.5.0 is now available.
This release contains a large number of enhancements and fixes which are detailed in the release notes.
API changes There have been some API changes which are not backwards compatible, and the reason for the version change to 2.5. These are detailed in the release notes.
Posted Tuesday March 29, 2016
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Introduction Welcome to the March newsletter, read on for some really good news, details of the new site level stats ZAP now supports and an introduction to scripting.
News The big new this month is that ZAP was voted the TOP free/open source security tool for 2015 by Toolswatch readers: https://www.
Posted Friday February 19, 2016
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Introduction Welcome to a slightly delayed February newsletter - we were holding on for some expected news that will now have to wait until next time ;)
News We have started another user questionnaire. We ran one 2 years ago - the answers were very helpful and definitely shaped the direction ZAP is now taking.
Posted Monday January 4, 2016
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Introduction Happy New Year!
For the first newsletter of 2016 we have a special feature on a new vulnerability “XCOLD Information Leak” that caught the eye of one of our key contributors, how he found it and how you can use a new ZAP rule to detect it.
Posted Tuesday December 15, 2015
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Introduction Welcome to the second ZAP Newsletter.
And apologies for the delay - 2.4.3 took longer than expected, and last week I was away at a Mozilla work week.
News The big news is that ZAP 2.4.3 is now available to download.
This is a development and bugfix release, for more details of all of the changes see the release notes.
Posted Monday November 2, 2015
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Introduction Welcome to the first monthly ZAP newsletter.
We plan to cover pretty much anything ZAP related in these newsletters, including newly created or updated add-ons, new features just implemented and 3rd party tools.
We also encourage contributions from people like yourself - see the last section for details.
Posted Tuesday October 6, 2015
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The first online ZAP Q&A Session was held on Tuesday 13th October.
You can listen to a recording of the session here.
Please leave feedback via this Google Form.
Some links to resources mentioned in the session or related to the questions:
The DOM XSS add-on The Context Alert Filters add-on The Revisit Add-on The Access Control add-on The vulnerabilities detected by ZAP How to set up form based authentication The community-scripts repo Note that you can download add-ons from within ZAP via the Marketplace.
Posted Wednesday May 27, 2015
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At OWASP AppSec EU in Amsterdam this year I announced ZAP as a Service (ZaaS).
The slides are here and the video will hopefully be available soon.
The idea behind this development is to enhance ZAP so that it can be run in a ‘server’ mode.
This is different to the current ‘daemon’ mode in that it will be designed to be a long running, highly scalable, distributed service accessed by multiple users with different roles.
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2014
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Hello everybody, my name is Alberto Verza, a 23 year student from Spain, and this summer I have participated in Google Summer of Code 2014. My project was the SOAP Scanner add-on for ZAP, in which I worked during all the Program. Let me explain you the features it includes.
Posted Wednesday April 30, 2014
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Welcome to a series of blog posts aimed at helping you “hack the ZAP source code”.
The previous post in this series is: Hacking ZAP #3 - Passive scan rules
Active scan rules are another relatively simple way to enhance ZAP. Active scan rules attack the server, and therefore are only run when explicitly invoked by the user.
Posted Thursday April 3, 2014
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Welcome to a series of blog posts aimed at helping you “hack the ZAP source code”.
The previous post in this series is: Hacking ZAP #2 - Getting Started
One of the easiest ways to enhance ZAP is to write new passive scan rules.
Passive scan rules are used to warn the user of potential vulnerabilities that can be detected passively - they are not allowed to make any new requests or manipulate the requests or responses in any way.
Posted Thursday March 20, 2014
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Welcome to a series of blog posts aimed at helping you “hack the ZAP source code”.
The previous post in this series is: Hacking ZAP #1 - Why should you?
In order to change the ZAP source code you will need to set up a development environment.
Requirements The following software is used/required to obtain and build ZAP (core) and the add-ons:
Posted Monday March 10, 2014
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Welcome to a series of blog posts aimed at helping you “hack the ZAP source code”.
ZAP is an open source tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is the most active OWASP project and is very community focused - it probably has more contributors than any other web application security tool.
Posted Monday December 10, 2012
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We are getting close to releasing the next major version of ZAP.
As there are so many changes we’ve decided to go to version 2.0.0 rather than 1.5, and some of the biggest changes have come about thanks to the Google Summer of Code (GSoC).
This is the first year in which ZAP has taken part in the GSoC, and it has been a resounding success.
Posted Monday October 22, 2012
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I’ve been struggling with the question of ZAP releases.
We’ve made loads of enhancements to ZAP recently, and I want them to be available to as wide an audience as possible.
But I also want to make sure our ‘full’ releases remain as robust and stable as possible.
Posted Thursday September 13, 2012
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The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (otherwise known as ZAP) is a free security tool which you can use to find security vulnerabilities in web applications. My name is Simon Bennetts, and I am the ZAP Project Leader; there is also an international group of volunteers who develop and support it.
