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An interactive platform for secure development practice and cyber risk awareness. Developers, engineers and technical teams learn security by doing — realistic scenarios, genuinely vulnerable code, and challenges that can be exploited rather than merely described.
The problem
Nobody remembers the training. That is the whole problem.
Most secure-development training is watched, ticked and forgotten. It uses sanitised examples, in a language the team does not write, and nothing ever verifies what actually stuck.
Six weeks later the same vulnerability ships. Not because the developer is careless — because they were never put in front of the real thing.
Inside a challenge
The vulnerability is on the left. The exploit is on the right.
Each challenge puts the vulnerable source in front of the learner and walks them through exploiting it — here, a MIME type check that validates the declared type but never the content. They find the bypass, submit the flag, and never write that upload handler again.
Challenges available across the catalogue
Languages and frameworks covered
Formats: technical labs, Capture the Flag, knowledge checks
Dashboard for the manager who has to report on it
Security training that survives contact with real code.
Real vulnerable code
Hands-on secure coding against code that actually contains the flaw — not a sanitised example.
Think like an attacker
Capture the Flag exercises and hacking challenges that teach the offence before the defence.
Knowledge, verified
Targeted multiple-choice questions that confirm what was understood, not what was clicked through.
Breadth that matches your stack
More than 100 challenges across 10+ programming languages and frameworks.
Champions, not attendees
Selected developers become the security referent inside their own squad, with a mandate and a score.
Evidence for the auditor
Progression, coverage and completion tracked per team — reportable without a manual export.
How a program runs
Standalone or inside an advisory engagement. Either way the sequence is the same.
Scope and select
We map your stack and pick the champions with you — usually one or two per squad, chosen for influence rather than seniority.
Kick off with a real breach
The cohort opens on a live exploitation session against code that resembles yours. It sets the tone: this is practice, not theory.
Run the cadence
Challenges are released on a rhythm the teams can absorb alongside delivery work, with scoring and team comparison to sustain it.
Report and re-benchmark
Skill benchmarking per team, coverage per language, and a management view that answers the question an auditor will ask.
Capabilities and fit.
Key capabilities
- Secure coding training built on real attack techniques
- Interactive challenges and technical labs
- Gamification, scoring and team-based comparison
- Progress tracking and skill benchmarking
- Awareness modules for non-technical teams
- Content mapped to OWASP ASVS and your own internal standards
Ideal for
- Reducing application-layer risk
- Improving secure development maturity
- Raising cyber awareness across technical and non-technical teams
- Organisations that need training they can evidence to an auditor
What it replaces
- Annual compliance e-learning nobody remembers
- Generic slide decks bought by the seat
- One-off workshops with no follow-through or measurement
Security by design embedded in daily workflows — and training that is finally engaging, measurable and effective.
What clients ask first.
Can we run it without an advisory engagement?
Yes. All three products are available standalone. Most clients start with the platform and add advisory support around the results.
Which languages are covered?
More than ten languages and frameworks across the catalogue, including the JVM, .NET, Python, Node, Go and Apex. We confirm coverage against your actual stack during scoping.
How much time does it cost a developer?
Challenges are sized in minutes, not days — most sit between eight and thirty minutes. The cadence is set so it absorbs into a sprint rather than displacing one.
Do the labs run against real infrastructure?
Yes. Challenges are exploitable in isolated lab environments, which is what separates them from a quiz. Nothing touches your systems.
Can we map it to our own secure coding standard?
Yes. Content maps to OWASP ASVS out of the box and can be aligned to your internal standard so completion means something in your own terms.
Training & Awareness
The advisory side of the same problem: champion program design, executive briefings and incident tabletops.
The other two products.
See DevSec Champions on your own environment.
We run the demo ourselves — no scripted walkthrough. Your questions, your constraints, and an honest answer on whether it fits.