Latest / The Application Security Podcast
Mark Curphey and Simon Bennetts -- Riding the Coat Tails of ZAP, without Open Source Funding
ZAP supports an enormous share of the application security ecosystem, but who pays for the people keeping it reliable? Project founder Simon Bennetts and OWASP co-founder Mark Curphey join Chris to examine the uncomfortable economics of widely used open-source security tools. Simon describes the nontechnical work behind maintaining ZAP, from community support to managing companies that build commercial offerings on top of it. Mark explores funding structures, foundations, and the incentives that leave critical infrastructure dependent on too few people. They connect those pressures to the XZ…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.