Insights from experts shaping secure development

Recognition fuels participation. Enabler 7 celebrates developer achievement loudly, with rewards and exclusive swag that mark real, earned secure coding wins.

Secure Code Warrior is named in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Application Security, 2026 for Agentic Coding Security and Secure Coding Training. Here's why.

Review the SCW AI Trust Index, our proprietary LLM benchmarking data, before going all-in on an AI model.

Executive buy-in doesn't sustain itself. Enabler 6 shows how regular reporting keeps leadership engaged, informed, and invested in program success.

Discover why Secure Code Warrior is becoming a channel-first company and how trusted partners help organizations adopt AI Software Governance securely and at scale.

Secure Code Warrior's AI literacy program for non-developer employees.

Today, Secure Code Warrior issued an all-new white paper covering a prescriptive, directional AI adoption model that security leaders can use to identify their adoption stage and make real progress in bringing the AI security risks within their organization under control.

Move beyond one-and-done training. Enabler 5 builds multi-level certification programs that give developers meaningful progression and validated skills.

NSA published its first MCP security guidance. SCW's curriculum already covers 18 of 23 issues raised — here's how it maps.

Gartner names SCW twice. As AI agents take over more development, SCW gives you the capability and governance to adopt AI-driven development securely.

Adaptive Learning bridges SCW Trust Agent with our entire learning platform, ensuring training stays perfectly aligned with real-time developer activity.

Align secure coding training to real AI development activity — automatically assigning guidance to developers using AI tools, without manual intervention.Align secure coding training to real AI development activity — automatically assigning guidance to developers using AI tools, without manual intervention.

Adaptive Learning auto-assigns targeted secure coding training to the developers introducing real vulnerabilities, reducing recurring risks at the source.Secure Code Warrior blog banner with a blue overlay over a developer working at a multi-monitor desk displaying code, alongside the headline 'Train developers on the real risks in their code.'l

Remove friction from your secure coding program with Enabler 4: Low Barrier to User Access. Explore SSO, front-loaded onboarding, and relay state strategies to get developers training with a single click.

I am proud to announce that Secure Code Warrior has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Given the rapid evolution of the threat landscape, this strategic collaboration could not come at a more mission-critical moment for both security leaders and future-focused developers.

I am thrilled to announce today an upcoming strategic partnership between Secure Code Warrior and KnowBe4. KnowBe4 is a world-renowned leader in comprehensively managing human and agentic AI risk, making them the perfect partner to help us distribute foundational security awareness to organizations across the globe.

Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is critical for protecting data from quantum computing threats. Learn how “harvest now, decrypt later” exposes risk and how developers can prepare for quantum-safe security.

Keep developers engaged in your secure coding program with a strong communications plan. Learn to highlight benefits, set the right tone, and celebrate wins.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos represents a permanent, fundamental shift in how every security leader must approach their security program, especially with patch management of legacy systems.

Explore Enabler 2: Senior Leadership Sponsorship. Learn why active buy-in from the CIO, CTO, and CISO is vital to drive developer adoption and program credibility.

While development teams look to make the most of GenAI’s undeniable benefits, we’d like to propose a four-point foundational framework that will allow security leaders to deploy AI coding tools and agents with a higher, more relevant standard of security best practices. It details exactly what enterprises can do to ensure safe, secure code development right now, and as agentic AI becomes an even bigger factor in the future.

Cybermon 2025 Beat the Boss is now available year-round in SCW. Deploy advanced AI/LLM security challenges to strengthen secure AI development at scale.

Anthropic’s launch of Claude Code Security marks a defining collision point between AI-assisted software development, and the rapid augmentation of how we approach modern cybersecurity.

Learn what the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) requires, who it applies to, and how engineering teams can prepare with secure by design practices, vulnerability prevention, and developer capability building.

Enabler 1 kicks off our 10-part Enablers of Success series by showing how to link secure coding to business outcomes like risk reduction and velocity for long-term program maturity.

2025 was a big year for AI, for cybersecurity, and for SCW. I’m approaching 2026 with quiet confidence, and the optimism that only hard work paying off can bring.

Secure Code Warrior’s 10 Enablers guide organizations in building lasting secure coding programs by focusing on people, process, and program maturity stages.

OWASP Top 10 2025 lists Software Supply Chain Failures at #3. Mitigate this high-impact risk via strict SBOMs, dependency tracking, and CI/CD pipeline hardening.

OWASP Top 10 2025 adds Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions at #10. Mitigate risks via "fail closed" logic, global error handlers, and strict input validation.

Discover what changed in the OWASP Top 10: 2025 and how Secure Code Warrior makes the transition easy with updated Quests, Courses, and developer insights.

Is the cybersecurity world moving too fast on agentic AI? The future of AI security is here, and it's time for experts to move from reflection to reality.

Trust Agent by Secure Code Warrior solves the secure coding crisis, validating dev proficiency on every commit. It discovers all contributors & automates governance in your dev workflow.

The AI debate isn't about use, but application. Discover how to balance the need for AI productivity gains with robust security by relying on developers who deeply understand their code.

Address cybersecurity risks at your organization with this actionable guide to carrying out effective cybersecurity risk assessments.

CISOs can’t rely on the same old awareness playbook. In the Age of AI, they must embrace modern approaches to safeguard code, teams, and organizations.

Learn how Trust Agent: AI provides deep visibility and governance over AI-generated code, empowering organizations to innovate faster and more securely.

AI-assisted coding is changing development. Try our new Copilot-style AI Challenges to review, analyze, and fix code securely in realistic workflows.

Introducing our free 12-week AI/LLM security video series! Learn the foundational risks of AI-assisted coding and how to build safer applications.

Your all-in-one guide to our 12-week AI/LLM security video series. Catch every episode, learn key AI security concepts, and follow along weekly.

Learn what secure coding really means and how secure coding practices can reduce both vulnerabilities and security-related costs at your company.

Celebrating 10,000+ secure code learning activities and a decade of empowering developers to reduce risk, improve code quality, and confidently tackle AI-assisted development.

AI-assisted development is no longer on the horizon — it’s here, and it’s rapidly reshaping how software is written. Tools like GitHub Copilot, Cline, Roo, Cursor, Aider, and Windsurf are transforming developers into co-pilots of their own, enabling faster iteration and accelerating everything from prototyping to major refactoring projects.

Secure Code Warrior is excited to announce our new integration with HackerOne, a leader in offensive security solutions. Together, we're building a powerful, integrated ecosystem. HackerOne pinpoints where vulnerabilities are actually happening in real-world environments, exposing the "what" and "where" of security issues.

In our latest white paper, our Co-Founders, Pieter Danhieux and Dr. Matias Madou, Ph.D., sat down with over twenty enterprise security leaders, including CISOs, AppSec leaders and security professionals, to figure out the key pieces of this puzzle and uncover the reality behind the Secure by Design movement. It’s a shared ambition across the security teams, but no shared playbook.

Vibe coding is like a college frat party, and AI is the centerpiece of all the festivities, the keg. It’s a lot of fun to let loose, get creative, and see where your imagination can take you, but after a few keg stands, drinking (or, using AI) in moderation is undoubtedly the safer long-term solution.

How a coding agent was tricked into writing SQL injection-prone code, installing shell tools, and maybe even stalking its user

Quests empower developers to master secure coding through interactive learning, reducing risk and optimizing development

Secure Code Warrior's founding team has stayed together, steering the ship through every lesson, triumph, and setback for an entire decade. We’re scaling up and ready to face our next chapter, SCW 2.0, as the leaders in developer risk management.

Organizations are facing tough decisions on AI usage to support long-term productivity, sustainability, and security ROI. It’s become clear to us over the last few years that AI will never fully replace the role of the developer. From AI + developer partnerships to the increasing pressures (and confusion) around Secure-by-Design expectations, let’s take a closer look at what we can expect over the next year.

Stay ahead in securing LLM applications with the latest OWASP Top 10 updates. Discover what's new, what’s changed, and how Secure Code Warrior equips you with up-to-date learning resources to mitigate risks in Generative AI.

Our research has shown that secure code training works. Trust Score, using an algorithm drawing on more than 20 million learning data points from work by more than 250,000 learners at over 600 organizations, reveals its effectiveness in driving down vulnerabilities and how to make the initiative even more effective.

The growing focus on secure code and Secure-by-Design principles requires developers to be trained in cybersecurity from the start of the SDLC, with tools like Secure Code Warrior’s Trust Score helping measure and improve their progress.

Our latest research paper, Benchmarking Security Skills: Streamlining Secure-by-Design in the Enterprise is the result of deep analysis of real Secure-by-Design initiatives at the enterprise level, and deriving best practice approaches based on data-driven findings.

Discover the latest security challenges facing Linux users as we explore recent high-severity vulnerabilities in the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). Learn how these issues may lead to potential Remote Code Execution (RCE) and what you can do to protect your systems.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) uses the trust of browsers and ignorance of users to steal data, take over accounts, and deface websites; it's a vulnerability that can get very ugly, very quickly. Let's take a look at how XSS works, what damage can be done, and how to prevent it.

Learn about our new Engagement Insight Report that provides in-depth analysis to help you measure your secure code learning efforts.

Secure Code Warrior helped DigitalOcean build and release quality code from the start, driving digital innovation and modernization with security-aware developers.

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, 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.

The Cybersecurity Strategic Plan pushes major changes to the way most organizations approach cybersecurity, and developers are in a unique position to help achieve those new goals.

Learn all about our agile learning methods, Microsoft teams integration, and our reports for development engagement.

Empower your developers with Secure Code Warrior. Our platform enables and empowers developers with learning content on demand.

Discover SCW Trust Score, providing deep insights into organizational security and developer competency.

Regulations governing the financial services industry, such as PCI DSS, emphasize the importance of secure code and the need for training developers in security best practices.

A critical vulnerability, CVE-2024-3094, was discovered in the XZ Utils data compression library used by major Linux distributions, introduced through a backdoor by a threat actor. This high-severity issue allows for potential remote code execution, posing significant risks to software build processes. The flaw affects early versions (5.6.0 and 5.6.1) of XZ Utils in Fedora Rawhide, with an urgent call for organizations to implement patches. The incident underscores the critical role of community volunteers in maintaining open-source software and highlights the need for enhanced security practices and access control within the software development lifecycle.

Generative AI offers financial services companies a lot of advantages, but also a lot of potential risk. Training developers in security best practices and pairing them with AI models can help create secure code from the start.

Secure Code Warrior and Mend.io discuss impacts of AI on security, proactive security approaches, and effective management of vulnerability alerts.

Learn about Secure Code Warrior's latest integration with Apiiro.

Learn about the most recent improvements to the Secure Code Warrior platform and what will be coming soon.

By following secure coding practices, developers can help to protect their applications from vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers. Just as a well-built house is less likely to collapse, a well-coded application is less likely to be hacked.

Agile learning accelerates issue resolution and boost developer efficiency with continuous learning.

While it is looking inevitable that LLM-style AI technology will change the way we approach many aspects of work - not just software development - we must take a step back and consider the risks beyond the headlines. And as a coding companion, its flaws are perhaps its most “human” attribute.

Today is our ninth birthday, and I remain immensely proud and grateful for our achievements and enduring place in cybersecurity land as the scene continues to change rapidly.

A deluge of complex security tools is making cybersecurity even more challenging for CISOs.

Secure Code Warrior top 10 predictions for the cybersecurity industry in 2024 and beyond.

SCW case study blog that highlights the agile learning environment that Netskope has deployed.

Explore the security risks of AI in software development and learn how to navigate these challenges effectively with Secure Code Warrior.

Empower developers with a tiered approach to cut vulnerabilities, fostering relationships and prioritizing recurring issues.

With a persistent skills shortage at odds with the deluge of code being written to satisfy the world’s software needs, many businesses are falling behind in their cybersecurity strategy and existing infrastructure. It’s time we took an honest look at our overall cybersecurity maturity, and assessed the viable quick wins that are right in front of us.

Security leaders need to rethink the value developers are getting from the secure code learning experience, and how to make the program more engaging and, most importantly, more impactful. In this blog, we’ll explore how to get developers excited about the secure code education through more hands-on learning and integrations with their tools to drive a big results and reduce vulnerabilities introduced up to 53%.

Learn how you can reduce vulnerabilities and security breaches with Secure Code Warrior’s hands-on agile security training.

Affected versions of the curl library are susceptible to a Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability, related to a legacy issue with the SOCKS5 proxy protocol. Learn how to find and fix this vulnerability type with a playable mission.

CISOs are finding themselves in an increasingly fraught position: Protect more assets, ship more code, reduce a bigger attack surface, and do it with rapidly diminishing financial resources. It’s an inescapable fact that cybersecurity is viewed as a cost center, and despite an organization’s security program being what stands in the way of a threat actor making them tomorrow’s disastrous headline, security leaders must do more to sell in and prove the overall business value of the department, in language that makes sense to the executive body.

The MOVEit scenario is a little different from what many developers and AppSec professionals may have previously experienced, and you can test your SQLi-slaying skills in a live simulation right here.

New at Secure Code Warrior: set up tournaments for multiple companies, new coding guidelines, SCIM provisioning for users, and more!

It’s safe to say that the past couple of years have been transformational for cybersecurity standards, and while not mandatory, it should be a goal for all organizations to follow suit, and scrutinize vendor security practices as though they are part of their own internal security program.

Fresh off the back of our Series C funding announcement, I am thrilled to announce another step in our company’s journey. Security industry leader, Synopsys, has welcomed an exciting new addition to its product suite: Synopsys Developer Security Training, powered by Secure Code Warrior.

It seems baffling that most developers who work on code that powers critical infrastructure, automobiles, medical tech, and everything in between, do so without first verifying their security prowess. On the other hand, why do security-skilled developers, who have repeatedly proven that they understand how to build things securely, need to queue with everyone else in the ever-slowing development pipelines because of all the security gates?

The cost of addressing code vulnerabilities and technical debt is high and continues to suppress software development teams’ productivity. Learn how implementing an agile learning platform for secure code can more effectively train developers on secure coding techniques to fix vulnerabilities faster as well as earlier in the SDLC and prevent them in the first place to drive significant cost avoidance. This blog outlines how to think about the financial impact and ROI of an agile learning platform.

We announced the closing of our Series-C funding round, having raised USD $50 million towards the next phase of our mission: helping more pioneering organizations harness the power of their development cohort in thwarting common vulnerabilities.

Learn how an agile learning platform for secure code can be embedded into developer workflows and tools, and start to build a culture of secure code learning.

Earlier this year, the PCI Security Standards Council revealed version 4.0 of their Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). While organizations won’t need to be fully compliant with 4.0 until March 2025, this update is their most transformative to date, and will require most businesses to assess (and likely upgrade) complex security processes, and elements of their tech stack. This is in addition to implementing role-based security awareness training and regular secure coding education for developers.

Learn how an agile learning platform for secure code upskills developers, reduces risk, and lowers technical debt over time by starting left in the SDLC.

By helping define the responsibilities of our apps and software within a tight hierarchy, and enforcing those policies with least privilege, we can make sure that our apps and software also survive and thrive despite the threat landscape arrayed against them.

CISA's National Cybersecurity Strategy represents the best chance we have at raising software standards across the board and, finally, ushering in a new era of security-skilled developers.

On March 20th 2023, Spring Security Advisories published a blog post referencing an internally discovered vulnerability, CVE-2023-20860. No detailed information was disclosed, except that it was an access control issue concerning the use of `mvcMatchers`. Spring developers have remediated the issue, and a version update is advised. Since security is our main focus at Secure Code Warrior, we decided to take a deeper dive into this mvcRequestMatchers vulnerability and figure out where the core issue lies.

CyberNews Q&A with Pieter Danhieux, CEO & Co-Founder, Secure Code Warrior.

Kamer van Koophandel shares how it embedded secure coding into everyday development through role-based certifications, Trust Score benchmarking, and a culture of shared security ownership.

See how Paysafe's partnership with Secure Code Warrior led to a 45% boost in developer productivity and a major reduction in code vulnerabilities.

Explore the Devlympics 2023 results in this report. Dive into developer engagement, tech stack and languages trends in each industry that participated, and key vulnerabilities and CWEs covered in the annual global event hosted by Secure Code Warrior.

Discover how Sage enhanced security with a flexible, relationship-focused approach, creating 200+ security champions and achieving measurable risk reduction.

Discover how Workday transformed developer training with agile learning through Secure Code Warrior. By empowering developer with hands-on, language-specific education, Workday reduced vulnerabilities early in the SDLC. See their impressive results and key takeaways to build a secure code culture.

In this case study, learn how Thales has developed people, process, and technology approaches for an agile secure code learning program in order to engage developers to become active security champions.

Discover how retail giant Colgate-Palmolive reshaped its application security during its digital transformation journey. Facing challenges in secure coding, they innovated their approach by integrating bite-sized, in-context learning into the developer workflow.

IAG Group is the name behind many of the leading insurancecompanies in the Asia-Pacific region, underwriting policies formillions of customers to the tune of approximately AUD $11.4 Billionin premiums per annum.

Learn how they created an in-house technology education initiative, aimed at supporting thousands of employees to learn practical, cutting-edge skills in a number of disciplines, including machine learning and cybersecurity.

Explore this comprehensive case study to learn more about how they utilized Secure Code Warrior's tournaments to engage developers, increase awareness of key vulnerabilities affecting automotive software, and gain metrics across multiple languages and frameworks.

Security software company, Secure Code Warrior (SCW), will join the Australian USA Cybersecurity Mission at the RSA 2018 Conference, with a focus on showcasing how companies can quickly strengthen their cybersecurity posture by making developers the “first line of defense.”

Secure Code Warrior today announced the availability of its integration with Micro Focus Fortify, the first application security solution to be integrated with Secure Code Warrior’s new application programming interface (API).With the integration of Fortify on Demand (FoD), the leading SaaS based AppSec solution, any vulnerabilities identified by FoD will now offer a direct link to a practical training module that teaches the developer why the problem happened, how to fix it, and, more importantly, how to prevent making the same mistake again. The developer can now take a very specific training that is directly applicable to their day-to-day work.

Australian banks are leading the charge globally to develop a strong security mindset among their software developers according to Pieter Danhieux, leading secure software evangelist and co-founder of Australian start-up Secure Code Warrior.Danhieux said five out of Australia's top six banks were now actively engaging their developers to build secure coding skills through Secure Code Warrior's online, self-paced, gamified learning environment, as well as reviewing real-time metrics and reporting to verify the strengths and weaknesses of their developers and teams.

See how 16 leading AI models actually code, scored across 11 real-world frameworks and 1,760 codebases — the framework matters as much as the model.

AI risk doesn't stop at engineering. Get the one-pager on Citizen AI — build AI literacy and safe habits across your whole workforce.

From AI autocomplete to autonomous agents—explore how software development is evolving and what it means for security, governance, and your team.

Gartner named SCW twice in the 2026 Hype Cycle for Secure Software Engineering. Here's why it matters for AI-driven development.

Secure Code Warrior content available through KnowBe4 helps technical teams build secure coding and AI governance awareness through structured learning covering OWASP Top 10 risks, AI-assisted development, and modern secure coding practices.

Secure Code Warrior joins KnowBe4 to bring hands-on secure coding training into security awareness programs — covering OWASP, AI development, and 10 languages.

AI is writing code. Who’s governing it? With up to 50% of AI-generated code containing security weaknesses, managing AI risk is critical. Discover how SCW's Trust Agent: AI provides the real-time visibility, proactive governance, and targeted upskilling needed to scale AI-driven development securely.

OpenText Application Security and Secure Code Warrior combine vulnerability detection with AI Software Governance and developer capability. Together, they help organizations reduce risk, strengthen secure coding practices, and confidently adopt AI-driven development.

Secure Code Warrior is an AI Software Governance platform designed to enable organizations to safely adopt AI-driven development by bridging the gap between development velocity and enterprise security. The platform addresses the "Visibility Gap," where security teams often lack insights into shadow AI coding tools and the origins of production code.

Our industry-leading content is always evolving to fit the ever changing software development landscape with your role in mind. Topics covering everything from AI to XQuery Injection, offered for a variety of roles from Architects and Engineers to Product Managers and QA. Get a sneak peek of what our content catalog has to offer by topic and role.

SCW supports Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) readiness with CRA-aligned Quests and conceptual learning collections that help development teams build the Secure by Design, SDLC, and secure coding skills aligned with the CRA’s secure development principles.

Want to dominate the OWASP Top 10? Download the No-BS Guide to Defending Your Applications Against the OWASP Top 10:2025

This one-pager introduces SCW Trust Agent: AI, a new set of capabilities that provide deep observability and governance over AI coding tools. Learn how our solution uniquely correlates AI tool usage with developer skills to help you manage risk, optimize your SDLC, and ensure every line of AI-generated code is secure.

Large language models deliver irresistible advantages in speed and productivity, but they also introduce undeniable risks to the enterprise. Traditional security guardrails aren’t enough to control the deluge. Developers require precise, verified security skills to identify and prevent security flaws at the outset of the software development lifecycle.

Secure Code Warrior’s Program Strategy Services (PSS) team helps you build, enhance, and optimize your secure coding program. Whether you're starting fresh or refining your approach, our experts provide tailored guidance.

Quests is a learning platform that helps developers mitigate software security risks by enhancing their secure coding skills. With curated learning paths, hands-on challenges, and interactive activities, it empowers developers to identify and prevent vulnerabilities.

The Secure-by-Design movement is the future of secure software development. Learn about the key elements companies need to keep in mind when they think about a Secure-by-Design initiative.

SCW Trust Agent gives you the tools you need to deliver secure code faster, ensuring developers have the knowledge and skills to implement security best practices in the specific programming language of their code commits.

Are you confident that every line of code committed is backed by a developer with the necessary secure coding skills? Many organizations face this critical gap, leading to preventable vulnerabilities and reduced development velocity. SCW Trust Agent offers unparalleled visibility across your code repositories, analyzing commits directly against developer security proficiency. With policy gates, Trust Agent enables you to apply governance at the commit level, with policies to ensure code contributors have the secure code knowledge you require for your business-critical applications. Download our one-pager today to learn how SCW Trust Agent can help you strengthen your security posture, optimize your development lifecycle, and significantly reduce vulnerabilities.

Learn more about Secure Code Warrior Trust Score, the best way to build, measure and optimize your security program.

Discover SCW Trust Score, an industry-first benchmark to help measure your security program's effectiveness. Benchmark against industry peers, optimize your security posture, and drive data-driven decisions for enhanced software security.

Evaluate your software security infrastructure to support PCI-DSS requirements

Financial services institutions face an array of challenges that hinge on their ability to make efficient, effective use of technology in a fast-evolving financial world. Organizations are operating in a time of rapid changes—both internally and across the industry—in a highly competitive, cloud-based business environment. In pursuing their ongoing digital transformations, for example, organizations are working to get around the organizational friction that hinders investments into new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, that could accelerate payment processes and other procedures.

This guide offers practical strategies to engage development teams in PCI DSS 4.0 compliance. It outlines the modern developer's requirements for compliance, strategies for security professionals and development managers to collaborate on developer-focused security programs, and step-by-step advice on effective training initiatives to mitigate vulnerabilities permanently.

Explore the long-term ROI of secure coding education. Learn how investing in agile, proactive learning strategies enhances security and offers cost-effective protection against today's cyber threats.

The promise of artificial intelligence writing complex code at the touch of a button is intriguing, but the reality is that AI will need a lot of help from human developers to craft truly secure and reliable code.

Check out what SCW experts are predicting in the world of cybersecurity and software security in 2024.

In this white paper, security expert and Secure Code Warrior CTO & Co-Founder Matias Madou, Ph.D. will discuss:The six pillars you need to roll out effective security education and enablement for your development cohort. Lessons learned from ten executives implementing security programs at the enterprise level, and common pitfalls to avoid on your road to success.