Jit and Bennetts share a common DevSecOps vision of empowering developers to build secure apps from Day Zero; Jit leverages ZAP, one of a growing list of open source tools Jit supports, and makes it easy for developers to build security into their products at the speed required for modern code development.
TEL AVIV, Israel , Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Jit, the company codifying product security for developers, today announced that Simon Bennetts, founder of the world's most popular web app security scanner, OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), has joined the Jit team.
At Jit, Bennetts will continue to focus on the development of OWASP Foundation-incorporated ZAP, the most frequently used open source web application security scanner. A dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool, ZAP helps users find security vulnerabilities in their code. ZAP is also one of the underlying scanning technologies for the Jit platform, which enables developers to implement MVS—"Minimum Viable Security"—from Day Zero of product development.
"ZAP is one of the critical tools everyone should use when starting to build a new project," said David Melamed, CTO of Jit. "In fact, it's so important to the industry and to our vision that simply sponsoring the project didn't seem sufficient; we wanted to do more by fully supporting Simon's work on ZAP day in and day out. We're honored to support the open source ZAP community as it works to improve and enhance ZAP so that it remains the go-to tool it is today.
"Jit's vision," Melamed continued, "is to provide developers with contextually relevant and just-in-time access to the knowledge and tools they need to secure the apps they build across the entire application stack, all while accelerating the development process. We're leveraging and orchestrating many best-in-class open source tools like ZAP to do that."
"I created ZAP 12 years ago because I felt strongly that an open source web vulnerability scanner serves a critical purpose in the world," said Bennetts. "As I was recently exploring my next career step, I had the opportunity to consider working with many companies with proprietary products, but my heart belongs to open source. Fortunately, I found in Jit a brilliant team who are deeply committed to open source and to empowering developers to build secure applications. The Jit platform complements ZAP in many ways, allowing developers to programatically leverage ZAP across applications in a streamlined manner as part of their broader security plans. I'm grateful for this opportunity to continue to work on the project I love with the ZAP community and to have the support of like-minded developers and engineers at Jit who know how to have fun by building exceptional security products that the world so desperately needs."
In June 2022, Jit announced a $38.5M seed funding round led by boldstart ventures, with Insight Partners, Tiger Global Management, TechAviv, FXP and a number of strategic angel investors also participating. Also in June, Jit launched a free beta version of the Jit platform, which provides an easy on-ramp for bringing security into the developer and DevOps workflow by delivering a first of its kind security-as-code platform that orchestrates the best and most popular open source and cloud-native security tools with little to no configuration.
About Jit
Jit was founded in 2021 by David Melamed and Aviram Shmueli as well as FXP's Gil Zimmermann, Ron Zalkind and Tsahy Shapsa. It helps modern engineering teams developing cloud-native software and using continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) easily own product security without the common overhead. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and backed by boldstart ventures along with TechAviv, FXP, Insight Partners, Tiger Global Management and several strategic angel investors. https://jit.io/
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