ZAP Team: Simon Bennetts

Profile

Simon released ZAP in 2010 and has been working on it ever since.

Sponsor

Simon’s work on ZAP is sponsored by The Crash Override Open Source Fellowship.

Expertise

Simon has worked on nearly every part of the ZAP code base.

He is currently focusing on:

• ZAP long term funding
• Handling modern web apps more effectively
• Automation Framework
• Test Scans

Committees and Working Groups

• 2020/09 - 2023/08 OWASP Project Committee Member
• 2020/08 - 2021/01 OpenSSF Security Tooling Working Group Lead

Talks and Videos

Simon has given ZAP talks at conferences all over the world and has recorded numerous videos, including the series:

• ZAP Chat Series
• ZAP Deep Dive Series
• ZAP in Ten

All of Simon’s publicly available videos are linked off the Videos page.

Interviews and Panels

• 2023/01/04 IWCON2023: A decade plus of maintaining ZAP - Simon Bennetts
• 2023/10/25 Evo Cyber Security #51 – Changes in Software Supply Chain Regulations
• 2023/09/12 Application Security Weekly: Building a Scanner and a Community with Zed Attack Proxy - Simon Bennetts - ASW #254
• 2023/06/14 Software Engineering Radio 568: Simon Bennetts on OWASP Dynamic Application Security Testing Tool ZAP
• 2023/05/12 Stack Overflow Podcast: Stung by OWASP? Chatting with the creator of the most popular web app scanner
• 2022/09/14 TFiR: Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) Founder Simon Bennetts Joins Jit.io
• 2021/11/10 The Application Security Podcast: Simon Bennetts – Using OWASP ZAP across an Enterprise
• 2020/06/20 OWASP Project Panel
• 2015/05/18 FLOSS Weekly 329: OWASP ZAP
• 2013/02/02 FOSDEM: Simon Bennetts: Practical Security for developers, using OWASP ZAP