Secure Development Training
Building Resilience: Empower, Secure and Innovate
Practical Security Awareness
Through immersive, hands-on exercises, your team gains a firsthand understanding of vulnerabilities, transforming theoretical security concepts into practical, memorable insights they can apply to real-world coding.
Proactive Security Mindset
We cultivate a security-first mindset within your development team. By experiencing the real-world impact of insecure coding, participants gain a heightened awareness that translates into better decision-making and security-conscious practices.
Tailored Learning Experience
Our training adapts to your team’s specific development practices, technologies, and skill levels, ensuring every participant gains relevant skills that add immediate value to your organisation’s security posture.
Secure Development: Moving Beyond Traditional Training
Theoretical and Detached: Most secure development training relies heavily on theory, with instructors reciting practices like the OWASP Top 10 without connecting them to the day-to-day challenges developers face. This approach often fails to illustrate the tangible impact of vulnerabilities, leaving participants with concepts but little practical insight.
Lack of Engagement: Traditional lecture-based training is static and uninspiring, making it challenging to retain developers’ interest. Security training that relies on slides and theory doesn’t resonate, especially with developers who learn best through direct interaction and experimentation.
Misalignment with Diverse Learning Styles: Effective training must engage all types of learners. The conventional “one-size-fits-all” approach neglects the diversity of learning styles, such as visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic. Without adapting to these varied styles, training fails to provide lasting benefits.
Not Tailored to Organisational Needs: Generic training materials don’t account for the specific needs of each organisation. Developers’ skill sets, programming languages, tools, and applications vary widely, and training that doesn’t align with these factors lacks relevance and practical value.
Developers Learn by Doing: Developers excel when they can code, not when passively listening while going through PowerPoint slides. Without practical exercises, the learning experience doesn’t translate into actionable skills, leaving developers without the hands-on practice they need to solidify their knowledge.
Lack of Engineering Insight: Many programs are led by professionals from non-developer backgrounds, such as penetration testers, who may know how to exploit weaknesses but lack the engineering knowledge to recommend precise fixes. Developers need guidance from professionals with real development experience to effectively apply secure coding practices in varying environments.
Real-World Implications: Simply explaining vulnerabilities doesn’t provide insight into the real consequences of insecure code. For instance, discussing input sanitisation might mention risks such as XSS or SQL injection, but only practical visulisation of these exposures reveal the severe business impact of these errors.
Integration into Development Practices: Even when developers grasp the importance of security, many lack guidance on integrating these practices seamlessly into their workflows. Training often fails to address streamlined, repeatable processes that promote consistency across team members.
Testing and Tooling Gaps: The best training addresses not just code development but also secure testing practices. Developers benefit from training that introduces reliable tools and processes for embedding security in CI/CD pipelines, making secure development an ongoing, automated part of their workflow.
Frameworks for Consistency and Efficiency: Without clear recommendations for frameworks and best practices in specific languages or environments, developers often resort to creating their own methods, leading to inconsistent and potentially ineffective security practices. Effective training incorporates known frameworks to avoid reinventing the wheel and ensure dependable security outcomes.
For secure development training to be impactful, it must engage developers through hands-on learning, adapt to the tools and languages they use, and equip them with practical methods for integrating security into their workflows.
How we can help…
Morrisec’s secure development training is purpose-built to bridge the gaps left by traditional programs, transforming security theory into practice through immersive, hands-on learning. Recognising that developers learn best by coding and applying concepts directly, our training actively engages participants, guiding them through realistic scenarios that bring security principles to life. With a program tailored to your organisation’s unique environment—including languages, tools, and development workflows, we ensure that every skill learned is directly applicable. By addressing security challenges in a way that’s both effective and enjoyable, we empower your team to build resilient applications and cultivate a sustainable security mindset.
Hands-On, Real-World Focus: Our training moves beyond static lectures by immersing participants in real-world scenarios where they identify and mitigate vulnerabilities firsthand, giving them a true understanding of the impact of secure coding practices.
Engagement Through Interactivity: Our course is interactive and dynamic, offering a highly engaging experience that encourages participation and practical learning. By playing the role of the threat actor, developers see vulnerabilities from an attacker’s perspective, making the experience memorable and impactful.
Customised for Your Team’s Needs: We tailor our training to reflect your team’s coding languages, tools, and specific applications, ensuring that every lesson and exercise is relevant to their daily work. This personalised approach maximises the value of the training for your organisation.
Engineered by Developers, for Developers: Unlike many other training programs, Morrisec’s training is created by professionals with real engineering experience. This enables us to provide practical, developer-friendly solutions to security challenges, ensuring that recommendations are both feasible and effective.
Immediate, Practical Skills for Secure Coding: Participants gain practical skills they can apply immediately, including secure development practices, code testing techniques, and recommendations on integrating security into existing workflows. This isn’t theory — it’s actionable, day-to-day security.
Integration with Development Practices: Our program teaches your team how to embed security practices into their development lifecycle, ensuring that secure coding becomes a consistent part of your CI/CD pipeline and overall workflow.
Frameworks and Tooling Recommendations: We guide your team on best-fit frameworks and security tools, helping avoid the pitfalls of untested, home-grown solutions. This knowledge ensures your team has reliable, repeatable practices to maintain application security over time.
Comprehensive Post-Training Summary: Following the training, participants receive a detailed summary document covering key takeaways, topics discussed, and practical examples. This includes an introduction to threat modelling using our vulnerable training application as an example, along with example mitigations to help reinforce learning and provide a foundation for ongoing secure development practices.
Our secure development training doesn’t just check the box on security — it equips your team with the confidence, skills, and insights needed to proactively defend against today’s threats. By transforming theory into practice and making security accessible and engaging, Morrisec ensures that your organisation is well-prepared to develop and maintain secure applications, fostering a culture of resilience that strengthens your overall security posture.
Empowered Teams, Stronger Code
Real-World Scenarios
Equipped with firsthand knowledge of how vulnerabilities emerge, your team learns secure development practices to actively mitigate and prevent these issues. This results in a more resilient codebase and fewer security flaws across your applications.
Enhanced Application Resilience
With a focus on secure development from design through deployment, our training helps your team build applications that are robust against emerging threats, supporting sustainable security.
Long-Term Benefits
As each team member gains a deeper security mindset, your organisation will foster a culture of security awareness, ensuring that secure development becomes a fundamental, lasting element of your development lifecycle.
Ready to Elevate Your Development Security?
Empower your team with the skills and confidence to build secure applications from the ground up. Our hands-on, tailored training is designed to address real-world challenges, making security an engaging and achievable part of your development process. Connect with us to learn how our secure development training can make a lasting impact on your organisation.