OWASP Open SAMMY

Open SAMMY is an open-sourceApplication Security Management tool designed to help organizations systematically assess, plan, and improve their security posture. Open SAMMY provides a structured way to manageOWASP SAMM (Software Assurance Maturity Model) assessments and improvement roadmaps.

How Open SAMMY Helps Organizations

With Open SAMMY, security teams can:

  • Assess: Perform structured evaluations using the OWASP SAMM framework to understand the maturity of their software security practices.
  • Plan: Generate actionable improvement plans based on identified gaps, tailored to organizational goals.
  • Improve: Track progress over time, ensuring continuous enhancement of security capabilities.
  • Demonstrate Improvements: Demonstrate tangible and measurable improvements to the organization and the team.

Key Features

  • OWASP SAMM-Based Assessments – Conduct and manage assessments based on OWASP SAMM to gain insights into current security maturity.
  • Roadmap Planning – Develop data-driven improvement plans to enhance application security processes.
  • Open-Source & Community-Driven – As an OWASP project, Open SAMMY benefits from community contributions and transparency.
  • Percent to Target – Support for the new OWASP SAMMPercent to target metric that provides a pragmatic answer to the “Not applicable” issue.
  • Upcoming DSOMM Support – Future integration withOWASP DSOMM (DevSecOps Maturity Model) to expand security maturity assessments into DevSecOps.

Why Use Open SAMMY?

  • Tailored for Application Security: Built specifically to align withOWASP SAMM, ensuring comprehensive security maturity management.
  • Extensible & Future-Proof: Designed to support additional frameworks like OWASP DSOMM and other security models.

Get Started with Open SAMMY


Empower your application security journey withOpen SAMMY – the open-source tool for managing security maturity withOWASP SAMM and beyond!

Roadmap

  • Support for OWASP DSOMM
  • Translations

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