The startup offers a secure coding training platform that utilizes real-world challenges and gamified experiences to enhance developers' coding skills. By enabling team collaboration, progress tracking through leaderboards, and certification opportunities, the platform addresses the gap in practical security knowledge among developers.
Funding
$970K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Many developers lack sufficient practical knowledge of secure coding practices, leading to vulnerabilities in software applications. Traditional training methods often rely on theoretical knowledge and quizzes, failing to provide hands-on experience in real-world development environments. This gap results in increased security rework, new security tickets, and longer vulnerability fix times.
Solution
SecureFlag offers a hands-on secure coding training platform that enhances developers' skills through virtualized environments and real-world challenges. The platform provides access to a continuously updated library of labs and learning paths based on prevalent vulnerabilities, teaching participants how to identify and remediate security issues by doing rather than just seeing. SecureFlag allows managers to organize tournaments to engage with their organization’s developer community and promote learning through competition. Organizations can create training plans and automatically assign training, with the platform adapting topics and difficulty levels based on each user's previous results.
Target Audience
The platform is designed for developers, DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, QA engineers, architects, and technical managers involved in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Features
- Thousands of real-world labs supporting 45+ technologies and covering 150+ vulnerability types
- Virtualized desktop computers, each comprising a fully configured development environment
- Training plans that automatically adapt topics and difficulty levels based on individual user results
- Tournament organization tools, including communication templates, posters, and certificates
- Team management features with leaderboards to foster friendly competition
- In-depth analytics and on-demand reports to measure participants' secure coding competence
- Integrations with Learning Management Systems (LMS) for centralized reporting and analytical insights
- Just-In-Time Training plugins that enrich security remediation tickets with immediate guidance and relevant hands-on labs
- ThreatCanvas, an automated threat modeling solution that generates threat models from textual descriptions or Infrastructure as Code (IaC)