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'''Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)''' is an independent and [[open source]] [[database]] created by and for the community. The goal of the project is to provide accurate, detailed, current, and unbiased technical information on [[Information security|security]] vulnerabilities. The project promotes greater, open collaboration between companies and individuals, eliminates redundant works, and reduce expenses inherent with the development and maintenance of in-house vulnerability databases.

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The project was started in August 2002 at the [[Black Hat Briefings|Blackhat]] and [[DEF CON]] Conferences by several industry notables (including [[H. D. Moore]], rain.forest.puppy, and others). Under mostly-new management, the database officially launched to the public on March 31, 2004.

The [[Open Security Foundation]] (OSF) was created to ensure the project's continuing support. Brian Martin (AKA Jericho) and [[Jake Kouns]] are project leaders for the OSVDB project ,<ref>http://opensecurityfoundation.org/</ref>, and currently hold leadership roles in the OSF. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries. It has a pluggable data store architecture

==Process==