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OWASP 2025
Global AppSec USA
Join 800+ security professionals from November 3–7, 2025, at the Marriott Marquis for a dynamic week of learning, networking, and inspiration. Explore six expert-led tracks—from OWASP Projects to builder, breaker, defender, and more.
OWASP X Google Summer of Code 2025 - Enabling 15 Opportunities for Impact
We're proud to share that OWASP is once again an official mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025—and this year, we've secured 15 contributor slots across some of the most impactful open-source security projects in the world.
This milestone reinforces OWASP's ongoing commitment to open-source innovation and highlights the strength of our global community of mentors and contributors, as well as our commitment to education-by-doing with the GSoC program.
What's on Deck?
Contributors will get hands-on experience improving and expanding some of OWASP's most vital tools:
Juice Shop
A globally-used, intentionally insecure web app for security training.
Nettacker
A fast, automated network scanner built for vulnerability detection.
Offensive Web Testing Framework
A smart framework for streamlined penetration testing.
Bug Logging Tool (BLT)
A next-gen bug tracker focused on gamification to incentivize bug and security reporting.
Nest
Core infrastructure to power and enable the OWASP projects and contributors ecosystem.
PyGoat
A Python-based sandbox for learning and exposing security flaws in modern stacks.
OpenCRE
A collaborative cybersecurity knowledge base & reference system.
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