The OWASP initiative

The official definition of the OWASP is as follows:

"The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open community dedicated to enabling organizations to develop, purchase, and maintain applications that can be trusted."

Initially, OWASP is thought to be a global set of guides and proposals about security, centralized and published by OWASP.org, a nonprofit organization focused on improving the security of software by making security visible, so organizations and individuals have a starting point that provides practical and impartial information about security issues.

Its official web page can be found at https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page, and it offers guidelines about application security tools and standards as well as books, controls, and libraries, research on several security topics, worldwide conferences, mailing lists, and a long list of resources.

OWASP official site announces itself as an entity:

"free from commercial pressures", which –in their...