Is owasp.org legit or a scam?
The official OWASP Foundation website is a highly trusted, long-standing non-profit resource for cybersecurity professionals with a perfect safety record.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a professionally designed, fully-rendered website for a well-known non-profit organization with no visual indicators of scamming or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional branding and logo for the OWASP Foundation
Standard navigation menu for projects, chapters, and events
Functional search bar integrated with the site's domain
Legitimate call-to-action buttons for donations and membership
Standard cookie consent banner at the bottom of the page
Promotional banner for a specific industry conference (Global AppSec Vienna)
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered since 2001 and is operated by a verified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our antivirus network shows zero detections across more than 90 security engines, and the site is not present on any major browser blocklists. The hosting infrastructure has a clean reputation with no history of abuse reports. Visual analysis confirms professional branding consistent with the organization's mission to improve software security. Extensive web research confirms this is the legitimate home of the OWASP Top 10 and other industry-standard security guides.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for owasp.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain owasp.org registered September 21, 2001; expires 2031-09-21 (whois.com)
- OWASP Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN 20-0963503) with public Form 990 filings
- Official address listed: The OWASP Foundation Inc., 300 Delaware Ave, Ste 210 #384, Wilmington, DE 19801
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found on Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, ScamDoc, Reddit, or general web searches
- Site hosts official OWASP Top 10, testing guides, cheat sheets, and community projects; widely referenced in cybersecurity resources
- LinkedIn company page and Wikipedia confirm nonprofit status and history since 2001
- No evidence of typosquatting, fake sites impersonating OWASP, or brand misuse in search results
501(c)(3) nonprofit; EIN 20-0963503; incorporated April 21, 2004; also registered in Belgium as OWASP Europe VZW
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Technical checksdomain · encryption · redirects · server reputation
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://owasp.org/
- 2200https://owasp.org/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on owasp.org and not a lookalike like o-wasp.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on owasp.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- owasp.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. owasp.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 33 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- owasp.org is 24.8 years old, registered on 9/21/2001 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report owasp.org as clean.
- No. owasp.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- owasp.org resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. owasp.org sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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