Secure Code Warrior turns 8: All aboard the rocket ship
Secure Code Warrior turns 8: All aboard the rocket ship
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This week, we officially celebrate eight years of Secure Code Warrior. On the one hand, that’s 350 times the length of the Apollo 11 mission, as well as the equivalent of 45,000 games of football, or playing Super Mario Odyssey 5696 times to the end. On the other, it’s just one-thirtieth the lifespan of a Giant Tortoise (250 years, if you’re wondering). In the world of a high-growth startup, it represents a journey of many twists, turns, lessons, and accomplishments, many of which were unimaginable when we were first inking our business plan.
Between the ever-present threat of recession, military conflict, and some of the most disruptive data breaches we have experienced to date, 2022 wasn’t the most positive year for many, myself included. It would be disingenuous for me to say it was anything but a grind to the finish line, but I remain proud of our resilience in the face of ongoing global challenges. We have an exceptional team, and each one of us is truly dedicated to driving success in enterprise security programs, by placing developers at the heart of a transformational, defensive approach to problems that have existed for a very long time.We have forged our own path and prevailed. While we might not be the only “gamified” cybersecurity education option on the planet, one thing is sure: nobody else has our vision, persistence, or our founding team, and we have been through a lot together.
![The founding team laughing and posing for a silly photo.](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5fec9210c1841a6c20c6ce81/63d2f315a53b739843e735ba_founders1.png)
Our birthday milestones are often utilized to reflect on key events from the past year, but this time, I want to highlight just how special it is that we have achieved such growth while retaining the same six people we crammed into a tiny office on day one.
We found our niche, and work together every day to execute a vision that we believe will change the way developers view their role in security. It’s a big job, but we haven’t forgotten our roots and the importance of our bond.
![Balloons in the shape of "SCW 8" during the office birthday party.](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5fec9210c1841a6c20c6ce81/63d2f38a79ea263fadcb9e71_IMG-20230125-WA0001.jpg)
We have a long road ahead, but with this core and a growing team of enthusiastic, empathetic, and dedicated individuals, I truly believe we can have a hand in changing the status quo of security in software development.
And you know what makes me so confident? From the beginning, we placed emphasis on diversity and considered it a pillar of strength in the team. The best organizations are built with the contributions of people from varied backgrounds, cultures, and walks of life. We added over one hundred new people to the team in the past year, and I am proud to say we are a melting pot of approaches that culminate into a formidable, talented group of human beings that can launch us into the proverbial stratosphere.
If the past three years have taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected, but the constant that I can rely upon is that we’ve got each other’s backs, and slowly, but surely, we’re helping make software safer. And we’re doing it without losing our sense of adventure.
Resources to get you started
Trust Agent by Secure Code Warrior
Discover SCW Trust Agent, an innovative solution designed to enhance security by aligning developer secure code knowledge and skills with the work they commit. It provides comprehensive visibility and controls across an organization's entire code repository, analyzing each commit against developers' secure code profiles. With SCW Trust Agent, organizations can strengthen their security posture, optimize development lifecycles, and scale developer-driven security.
Resources to get you started
Women in Security are Winning: How the AWSN is Setting Up a New Generation of Security Superwomen
Secure-by-Design is the latest initiative on everyone’s lips, and the Australian government, collaborating with CISA at the highest levels of global governance, is guiding a higher standard of software quality and security from vendors.
Women in Security are Winning: How the AWSN is Setting Up a New Generation of Security Superwomen
Secure-by-Design is the latest initiative on everyone’s lips, and the Australian government, collaborating with CISA at the highest levels of global governance, is guiding a higher standard of software quality and security from vendors.
SCW Trust Agent - Visibility and Control to Scale Developer Driven Security
SCW Trust Agent, introduced by Secure Code Warrior, offers security leaders the visibility and control needed to scale developer-driven security within organizations. By connecting to code repositories, it assesses code commit metadata, inspects developers, programming languages used, and shipment timestamps to determine developers' security knowledge.
Secure Code Warrior turns 8: All aboard the rocket ship
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This week, we officially celebrate eight years of Secure Code Warrior. On the one hand, that’s 350 times the length of the Apollo 11 mission, as well as the equivalent of 45,000 games of football, or playing Super Mario Odyssey 5696 times to the end. On the other, it’s just one-thirtieth the lifespan of a Giant Tortoise (250 years, if you’re wondering). In the world of a high-growth startup, it represents a journey of many twists, turns, lessons, and accomplishments, many of which were unimaginable when we were first inking our business plan.
Between the ever-present threat of recession, military conflict, and some of the most disruptive data breaches we have experienced to date, 2022 wasn’t the most positive year for many, myself included. It would be disingenuous for me to say it was anything but a grind to the finish line, but I remain proud of our resilience in the face of ongoing global challenges. We have an exceptional team, and each one of us is truly dedicated to driving success in enterprise security programs, by placing developers at the heart of a transformational, defensive approach to problems that have existed for a very long time.We have forged our own path and prevailed. While we might not be the only “gamified” cybersecurity education option on the planet, one thing is sure: nobody else has our vision, persistence, or our founding team, and we have been through a lot together.
![The founding team laughing and posing for a silly photo.](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5fec9210c1841a6c20c6ce81/63d2f315a53b739843e735ba_founders1.png)
Our birthday milestones are often utilized to reflect on key events from the past year, but this time, I want to highlight just how special it is that we have achieved such growth while retaining the same six people we crammed into a tiny office on day one.
We found our niche, and work together every day to execute a vision that we believe will change the way developers view their role in security. It’s a big job, but we haven’t forgotten our roots and the importance of our bond.
![Balloons in the shape of "SCW 8" during the office birthday party.](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5fec9210c1841a6c20c6ce81/63d2f38a79ea263fadcb9e71_IMG-20230125-WA0001.jpg)
We have a long road ahead, but with this core and a growing team of enthusiastic, empathetic, and dedicated individuals, I truly believe we can have a hand in changing the status quo of security in software development.
And you know what makes me so confident? From the beginning, we placed emphasis on diversity and considered it a pillar of strength in the team. The best organizations are built with the contributions of people from varied backgrounds, cultures, and walks of life. We added over one hundred new people to the team in the past year, and I am proud to say we are a melting pot of approaches that culminate into a formidable, talented group of human beings that can launch us into the proverbial stratosphere.
If the past three years have taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected, but the constant that I can rely upon is that we’ve got each other’s backs, and slowly, but surely, we’re helping make software safer. And we’re doing it without losing our sense of adventure.
Resources to get you started
Women in Security are Winning: How the AWSN is Setting Up a New Generation of Security Superwomen
Secure-by-Design is the latest initiative on everyone’s lips, and the Australian government, collaborating with CISA at the highest levels of global governance, is guiding a higher standard of software quality and security from vendors.
SCW Trust Agent - Visibility and Control to Scale Developer Driven Security
SCW Trust Agent, introduced by Secure Code Warrior, offers security leaders the visibility and control needed to scale developer-driven security within organizations. By connecting to code repositories, it assesses code commit metadata, inspects developers, programming languages used, and shipment timestamps to determine developers' security knowledge.
Trust Agent by Secure Code Warrior
Discover SCW Trust Agent, an innovative solution designed to enhance security by aligning developer secure code knowledge and skills with the work they commit. It provides comprehensive visibility and controls across an organization's entire code repository, analyzing each commit against developers' secure code profiles. With SCW Trust Agent, organizations can strengthen their security posture, optimize development lifecycles, and scale developer-driven security.