The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications.

It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing as well as being a useful addition to an experienced pen testers toolbox.


Some of ZAP's functionality:

• Intercepting Proxy
• Traditional and AJAX spiders
• Automated scanner
• Passive scanner
• Forced browsing
• Fuzzer
• Dynamic SSL certificates
• Smartcard and Client Digital Certificates support
• Web sockets support
• Authentication and session support
• Powerful REST based API
• Support for a wide range of scripting languages
• Automatic updating option
• Integrated and growing marketplace of add-ons

Some of ZAP's features:

• Open source
• Cross platform
• Easy to install (just requires java 1.7)
• Completely free (no paid for 'Pro' version)
• Ease of use a priority
• Comprehensive help pages
• Fully internationalized
• Translated into a dozen languages
• Community based, with involvement actively encouraged
• Under active development by an international team of volunteers

It supports the following languages:

• English
• Arabic
• Albanian
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Chinese
• Danish
• Filipino
• French
• German
• Greek
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Persian
• Polish
• Russian
• Spanish