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. Future posts on this blog will describe the features that ZAP provides and how you can use them, but this post will concentrate on the philosophy behind ZAP. Some of the ideals that have driven ZAP are listed b...