Case Study: OWASP achieves open-source security assurance for defender libraries with Bugcrowd

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OWASP, represented here by volunteer Johanna Curiel who helps define bounty scopes, faced a common open-source challenge: many of its projects—widely used by developers and companies to improve application security—weren’t getting consistent security reviews. As a nonprofit with limited resources, OWASP needed a way to validate the robustness of its defender libraries and reassure users who often assume an implicit level of security assurance.

OWASP worked with its volunteer community and project leaders to define bug bounty guidelines and scopes, then selected Bugcrowd to run bounties for stable, mature projects (including ZAP). The program has strengthened quality assurance by crowdsourcing real-world testing of security controls, clarified project scopes, and increased confidence in OWASP libraries among developers and organizations.

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