Category:Tools Categories

Tool Categories
Such tools are generally used to either help:


 * Protect Applications
 * Find Vulnerabilities in Applications
 * Test Other Application Security Tools

The categories of tools currently addressed by this project are (or will be):


 * Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)
 * Application Vulnerability Scanning Tools
 * Application Penetration Testing Tools
 * Source Code Analysis Tools
 * Test and Educational Applications
 * Application Security Analysis Support Tools

Types of Tools

 * Tools from OWASP
 * All Application Security Tools
 * Category:Non-OWASP Open Tool
 * Category:Commercial Tool

Other tool-related pages to be considered

 * Appendix A: Testing Tools
 * Tools required
 * Definition for Security Assessment Techniques

General Application Security Tool Resources

 * SAMATE
 * The NIST SAMATE - Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation project has an ambitious goal of creating a large set of application security test data and then assessing the capabilities of a wide variety of application security tools.


 * Presentation
 * At the 3rd AppSec OWASP Conference, Arian Evans did a presentation on Software Security Quality: Testing Taxonomy &amp; Testing Tools Classification that lists LOTS of the tools in the application security space from different categories, and some comparitive information on Web Application Security Scanning products.