Learn more about how security-aware developers represent a vast and largely untapped resource that can support cyber defenses by consistently standing against modern threats.

Courses are the bedrock of the Secure Code Warrior learning platform, as it provides framework-specific learning pathways that empowers you to build coding awareness and competency within your overall cybersecurity program.
Now with new Walkthroughs and Missions activities, developers can experience the impact of poor coding practices, gain context, and practice their offensive skills with hands-on coding simulations of real-world apps.
Increase educational outcomes and developer engagement by progressively building secure coding skills, a proven scaffolded approach to adult learning. Plus, these latest enhancements combat player fatigue with a wide range of offensive and interactive coding missions that will test developers’ secure coding knowledge and skills.

Key topics include: 

• Live demo of Walkthroughs and Missions in Courses
• New templates covering OWASP Top 10 2021, NIST/US Government Executive Order, Certification Level 4/5
• Scaffolded learning and how it progressively builds secure coding skills for your teams

In 2021, we usher in a new era for the fabled OWASP Top 10. This latest release reveals some significant shake-ups, with Injection flaws finally being toppled from the top spot in favor of Broken Access Control vulnerabilities. Brand new entries like Insecure Design and Software and Data Integrity Failures show a trend towards vulnerability categories - rather than standalone security bugs - proving that the threat landscape and potential attack surface from the most common bugs are widening.

OWASP has always been the go-to authority on the most common and insidious security issues found in the software we use every day, and if there is any baseline for which organizations should strive, it’s conquering this top 10 with the help of security-trained developers. While many companies recognize this, we must start to cast a wider net with developer upskilling if the cybersecurity skills chasm is ever going to shrink, and have a positive impact on software safety in the face of crazy demand for code.

This white paper will dissect the new OWASP Top 10, including:

• The impact of vulnerability categories vs. individual problems
• Why architectural security is receiving renewed attention
• The value of the OWASP Top 10 as a baseline, and why companies need to plan their own list of developer upskilling priorities
• Why human-centered solutions for reducing vulnerabilities are a more holistic approach than tool-based defense.

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Secure Code Warrior makes secure coding a positive and engaging experience for developers as they increase their software security skills. We're helping your teams ship quality code faster by improving security at the most efficient stage of the software development process. We offer a holistic human-led approach to making software more secure through developer training and upskilling with our developer-centric learning platform and intelligent developer tools. 

In this video, we'll show you the different modules available inside the learning platform. 

Starting with tournaments, engage your team in competitive coding events to practise their defensive and offensive techniques whilst you set a baseline for developer skills. Players are presented with a series of coding challenges and missions based on real code and compete against each other to identify, locate and fix vulnerabilities. Throughout the tournament, developers earn points and climb to the top of the leaderboard, helping you to spot potential security champions within your development team. 

Training, make it fast and fun for developers to identify and fix security issues as they code, follow best practises and write secure software at speed. The hands-on interactive framework-specific coding challenges help developers build transferable skills, to identify vulnerabilities and understand how they work, locate vulnerabilities in code during the code reviews and mitigate and fix those vulnerabilities in code. 

Reduce reworks and recurring vulnerabilities with courses, curated learning pathways that target key flaws and build competency within your overall cybersecurity programme. Configure and assign courses to assist in achieving compliance requirements like NIST and PCI DSS. And target specific vulnerabilities in your code base to prevent them from reoccurring.

Assessments enable you to easily measure and improve the secure coding skills of your developers, contractors and new hires. Be confident that your developers have a base level of competency when it comes to securing your code and make demonstrating compliance requirements quick and simple.

Extensive learning resources. Walk through security fundamentals and application security concepts with videos and presentation resources, covering security fundamentals, mobile and web application security weaknesses. 

Data and insights provide reporting to track and monitor training progress across your organisation. Role-specific dashboards, pre-built reports and reporting API make it easy to measure and analyse team and company performance, plus personal skills development. 

So I think one of the challenges we're facing in software development and security, is that we've been seeing the same or current software vulnerabilities for the past 20 years. Whether you're using static code analysis, whether you're using vulnerability assessments, or penetration testing, the same problems are re-occurring in different technologies and different parts of the code. 

And I think the second challenge we have, whether you're using static code analysis or using vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, is that these technologies often only point out a problem, and not really giving you practical hands-on solutions and how to fix things. And I think that's one of the reasons why we need to move from reaction to prevention is because we know not only wanna prevent the recurrence software security problem, but we also wanna solve them really quickly in the software development cycle. 

So one of the things we're really trying to do at Secure Code Warrior, is integrating into the development processes and tools of the developer, because we wanna be hyper relevant, and contextual to that software developer. We want to be there to help them coach and guide the actual problem. One example is the integration into ticketing systems. We wanna be in that ticketing system, when a security bug is being lodged, whether it's by a static code analysis tool, or about pen testing, we wanna be there, with the developer with some relevant coding patterns and information on how can you now quickly fix this issue in your specific coding language. And in that way, we wanna make us really contextual, and be there for the developer, when he or she actually needs it. With technology like sensei, we actually wanna be contextual inside the IDE of the developer. And when we notice that a new hire or a junior developer is making or using coding practises that would be leading to security vulnerability, we actually wanna be there, to not only detect the problem and train them on the spot, but we wanna be able to offer them guidance on how to quickly fix it, and even automatically rewrite the code for them inside their IDE. So in that way, we wanna be hyper relevant contextual and also offer solutions for the developer in their own coding language on how to fix and produce secure code in their teams. 

So our ultimate goal is to build security into the DNA of a developer. We don't wanna shift left, we are starting left. We wanna help the developer and empower them, to write secure code from the start. And that's why we build an environment where we provide hands-on gamify, and fun learning experiences, that are specific to the coding and language, that a developer kinda uses. Because we wanna make security something which is building, positive and a fun experience for the developer, so they can write secure code at speed.

So why do developers love Secure Code Warrior? Well first of all, because we basically help them improve their skills in their own coding language and framework, whether you are a front end developer that is coding in react or a mobile developer that is doing Java or swift, or even old school developers that are focusing on COBOL, RPG, or Java and C#, we basically have built a library of content in your specific coding language and framework, so that we can help you in a practical way, understand and make security something which is not scary and something that is actually fun to learn about.