Security tools were built for vendors. DefectDojo is built for you.
We are the open-source unified vulnerability management platform, born in the OWASP community and built by practitioners who got tired of drowning in noise. This page is not a company history. It is a statement of what we stand for.
You've been lied to about security.
More scanners means more safety.
The industry sold you a stack of disconnected tools, each with its own dashboard, its own format, and its own definition of critical. The result is not security. It is tool sprawl, duplicate findings, and burned-out teams chasing noise while real risk sits untouched.
Scanners are commodities. Intelligence is not.
Findings only matter when they are aggregated, deduplicated, enriched with threat intelligence, and prioritized against real risk. The intelligence layer above your scanners is what actually protects you. That layer is DefectDojo.
Born in the underground. Raised by practitioners.
DefectDojo did not come out of a boardroom. It came out of the OWASP community: security engineers building the tool they needed because no vendor would build it for them. It was shaped in production, hardened by real programs, and shared under an OSI license because that is what you do when you build for your peers.
That origin is not trivia. It is the reason the platform works the way it does. Every design decision starts from the same question practitioners have always asked: does this help the person actually doing the work?
Our commitments do not expire.
Five articles, written down so you can hold us to them. They do not change with a funding round or a product cycle.
Community Edition is free. Forever.
No time bombs. No feature ransom. No bait and switch at renewal. The Community Edition ships under an OSI license, 500+ parsers, and the same core engine that powers enterprise deployments. Free forever means forever.
Your data belongs to you.
Self-host it. Air-gap it. Export it through a fully documented REST API. We earn your renewal with the product, not by holding your vulnerability history hostage. Lock-in is a vendor strategy. It will never be ours.
Scanner independence, guaranteed.
DefectDojo parses findings from 500+ security tools and treats every one of them as an input, not an allegiance. Swap scanners whenever a better one appears. Your program keeps its history, its metrics, and its momentum. You choose your tools. We make them work together.
Built with the community, not just for it.
Our roadmap is shaped in public: GitHub issues, community Slack, and OWASP roots that go back to the beginning. When practitioners tell us what is broken, we listen, because practitioners are who we are, not just who we sell to.
We talk to you like a peer.
No buzzwords. No fear-selling. No AI hype that pretends humans are the problem. When we make a claim, we back it with specifics, and when we are wrong, we say so. Candor is a feature.
Four values. Zero vendor-speak.
Every product decision and every sentence of copy runs through the same four filters.
Candid
We name the problem plainly before we pitch the solution. Straight answers, concrete claims, no unverifiable superlatives.
Empowering
Automation should give agency back to the practitioner, not take it away. Humans make the calls. Dojo clears the noise.
Technical
We treat you as a technical peer. Real architecture, real APIs, real documentation, and depth wherever you want to look.
Underground
We are community-first and always will be: OWASP roots, open source code, and loyalty to the people doing the work.