Tournaments
Fortify your code. Our platform allows you to foster a community centric cybersecurity network with engaging coding competitions & tournaments, highlighting real-world vulnerabilities and secure coding practices.
Build an expert community through coding competitions
Fortify your code. Our platform allows you to foster a community centric cybersecurity network with engaging coding competitions & tournaments, highlighting real-world vulnerabilities and secure coding practices.
Build security skills and awareness the easy way
Kicking off your security program just got a whole lot easier and way more fun with our Tournaments. Here's the deal: devs dive into a mix of coding challenges, racing to spot and fix real-life code bugs. It’s a game-like setup, with everything from easy peasy to super tough challenges. This isn't just about learning - it's about turning your AppSec program into something everyone wants to be part of, spreading security smarts across your company.
- Applying secure architectures and design principles
- Equipping AI-assisted developers with adequate security knowledge
- Efficiently and effectively addressing code vulnerabilities
Security-First Development Culture, Made Easy
Secure Code Warrior empowers you to fundamentally change how your software is created by enabling you to set new standards for secure code. Our Developer Risk Management Platform helps you cultivate and maintain a security-first development culture, enabling you to measure, manage, and mitigate developer security risk through comprehensive benchmarking, robust governance, and engaging, hands-on education.
Measure
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It is difficult to manage what you can’t measure. Secure Code Warrior enables you to understand your developer risk landscape and measure the impact of your programs over time. Tracking progress both internally and against global and industry benchmarks.
Manage
While everyone would like to believe that developers operate with a security-first mindset, that isn’t always the case. We enable you to implement proactive security-focused governance by setting policies and programmatically enforcing them.
Mitigate
Once your program policy and goals are set, it's time to focus on upskilling and empowering developers with content relevant to the languages and frameworks they use, along with industry-leading best practices always available on-demand through our secure code training platform.
How We Do It
The Secure Code Warrior Difference
Data Driven Security Programs with SCW Trust Score
This industry-first benchmark helps quantify the impact of your secure coding initiatives. The SCW Trust Score® provides a comprehensive assessment of your organization’s secure coding skills, enabling AppSec teams and CISOs to gain a holistic understanding of their team's competencies and pinpoint areas for optimization and benchmark performance against peers.
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Observability and Governance for Risk Management
SCW Trust Agent gives you visibility into the developers working with your code base, and insights into their security skills. You can then configure policies for code repositories to help improve your security posture through proactive governance at scale, ensuring that developers are appropriately trained in the language of their commits.
Explore SCW Trust AgentHands-On Training Activities & Industry-Leading Content
Get a dynamic, scalable and interactive education experience that empowers your developers with the secure coding skills they need, exactly when they need them. Our on-demand Agile Learning Platform goes far beyond basic compliance training. It contains over 500 hours and growing of the latest and greatest secure code content spanning 225+ vulnerability topics (including AI/LLM security) across 65+ languages and frameworks.
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Broad Integration Ecosystem
We work where developers are. Secure Code Warrior fits seamlessly into your existing SDLC with integrations into a variety of different tools and services, from developer and appsec tools that offer just-in-time contextual training information and code management tools to educational tools where you can implement Secure Code Warrior within your own LMS and automation tools for easy onboarding.
Explore SCW IntegrationsExpert Guidance to Support Your Secure Code Journey
You don’t need to go at it alone. We’re here to help. Expert guidance and support are available at every level of program maturity. Whether you are just starting out, or looking to build a best-in-class program, Secure Code Warrior’s industry experts are there to guide you with Customer Support, Customer Success or optional Program Strategy Services to maximize the impact of your security initiatives.
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Assessment Do’s & Don’ts
Assessment Dos
- Use real-world problems
- Include a variety of challenges
- Test for problem-solving abilities
- Evaluate soft skills
- Ensure fairness and objectivity
Assessment Don’ts
- Use unrealistic time constraints
- Solely rely on Whiteboard Coding
- Forget about code readability
- Neglect security
Get developers fired up with friendly coding competitions
Make your security awareness program fun and unique.
Have fun while learning
Build a program that is entertaining and based on real-world security vulnerabilities.
Reward skills
Players can benchmark themselves against others.
Identify champions
Identify the security champions within your organization.
A fun & competitive environment for learning
Engage your team
Create tournaments with highly relevant content and real-world use cases.
Creating tournaments with highly relevant content and real-world use cases is more than just an educational exercise; it's a transformative experience for developers. These tournaments are crafted to mirror the complexities and challenges developers face in their daily work, turning abstract concepts into tangible skills that can be immediately applied. By focusing on real-world scenarios, participants are not only testing their coding abilities but are also learning to navigate and solve problems that directly impact the security and efficiency of software applications in the industry.
Establish a baseline
Baseline your security awareness skills and where to improve, making goal setting easy and achievable.
Tournaments like these are more than just educational events; they're catalysts for building a security-focused culture within organizations. By competing against peers, developers are motivated to hone their skills, encouraging a healthy exchange of knowledge and best practices. This environment of continuous learning and improvement elevates the overall security posture of the organization, making it more resilient against cyber threats. Baselining security awareness skills through such practical engagements helps individuals and teams identify specific areas for improvement. This clarity makes goal setting both easy and achievable, providing a clear roadmap for personal and professional development.
Make security intrinsic
Create a culture shift that boosts security from the last check to the first priority with highly engaging and rewarding learning experiences.
By framing secure coding as a fundamental aspect of quality and performance, rather than a hindrance or checkbox item, you can foster an environment where security is valued as a key component of successful project delivery. Engaging learning experiences, such as interactive coding challenges, gamified learning platforms, and competitive coding tournaments, serve as powerful tools in this cultural transformation. They make learning about security fun and rewarding, encouraging participation and sustained interest among developers. Over time, this shift in priorities and practices contributes to a strong security culture where security is seamlessly integrated into the development lifecycle, from the first line of code to the final release.
Secure coding in action
Secure Code Warrior builds a culture of security-driven developers by giving them the skills to code securely. Our Learning Platform delivers relevant hands-on missions and contextual tools for developers.
Testimonals
Fundamentals redefined
Achieve ROI
Cut vulnerabilities by 53%
Secure coding at speed accelerates productivity by reducing rework and your backlog of technical debt.
- Reduce risk of breach
- Minimize vulnerabilities
- Secure your data
Achieve ROI
FAQs
Things to Know about Developer Risk Management
What is Developer Risk Management?
Developer Risk Management is a holistic and proactive approach to application security, focused on code contributors rather than within the bits and bytes of the application layer itself.
The philosophy behind Developer Risk Management is that, through upskilling code contributors in a programmatic way, it exponentially increases the benefits and impact of secure code initiatives, leading to faster but more secure releases and significantly lowering potential cybersecurity risk.
Are you able to help me address my compliance requirements?
Yes!
Secure Code Warrior’s Developer Risk Management Platform provides the necessary relevant training materials needed, like content around the OWASP Top 10, to meet annual security training requirements for developers focused on secure coding techniques and a security-aware development workforce for compliance regulations like PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA.
Is Developer Risk Management similar to Secure by Design?
The concept of Developer Risk Management is closely related to guidelines surrounding Secure by Design and other Shift Left-type regulations being implemented worldwide.
While policy continues to evolve around setting guidelines and standards for software security, in practice, we have seen that this could be interpreted in a number of different ways.
Developer Risk Management is a practical approach to improving security posture whether related to initiatives around a Secure-by-Design pledge, some other governing force, or just a desire to enhance customer confidence to gain a competitive edge.
What kind of impact does managing developer risk have on my organization?
Many Secure Code Warrior customers have seen a significant impact across their organization when adopting a more proactive approach to managing developer risk. Including reducing vulnerabilities by up to 53%, accelerating development through improving MTTR by 2-3x, improving harmony between security and engineering teams, providing growth opportunities to developers, helping retain them, and fostering greater customer confidence and loyalty.
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