Secure Code Training Tools are designed to educate developers on best practices and techniques for writing secure code, helping to prevent vulnerabilities in software. They provide interactive lessons, coding challenges, and real-world scenarios focused on security best practices, common vulnerabilities, and their mitigation strategies. Developers are trained in secure code practices for comprehensive coding languages using different methods like optimized content, gamified lessons, videos, workshops, challenges, and expert assessments. Through engaging learning experiences and direct application of security principles, developers are better equipped to address and mitigate security risks in their coding projects. They also offer role-specific educational content and programming-specific information for developers. By integrating security best practices into every phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), these tools help ensure that software is built with security considerations from the ground up.
The SACBT market is characterized by vendor offerings that include one or more of the following capabilities: Ready-to-use training and educational content; Employee testing and knowledge checks; Availability in multiple languages, natively or through subtitling or partial translation (in many cases, language support is diverse and localized); Phishing and other social engineering attack simulations; Platform and awareness analytics to help measure the efficacy of the awareness program. Training modules are available as cloud-hosted SaaS applications or on-premises deployments via client-managed learning management systems (LMSs), and also support the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) standard, enabling integration with corporate LMSs.
Threat modeling automation tools automate the creation of security requirements and threat models. They can integrate with software development life cycle (SDLC) tools to manage requirements and perform validation. Threat modeling automation tools dynamically highlight potential security ramifications of application architecture and recommend secure coding practices or architectural countermeasures. These tools significantly decrease the effort required to create and maintain threat models, security requirements and risk assessments. This tool automatically identifies potential threats based on predefined criteria, seamlessly integrates with development tools like JIRA, Jenkins etc., and checks for coding standards, potential bugs, and security vulnerabilities. Typical users include security teams, developers, DevOps teams, product owners, and risk management professionals, who use it to efficiently identify and mitigate security risks.