Secure Code Training Tools 2026
Secure Code Training covers platforms that teach developers to write safer code and recognize vulnerabilities before they ship, usually through interactive labs, language-specific lessons, and hands-on exploit-and-fix exercises rather than passive slideware. CISOs reach for these tools when shift left stops being a slogan and becomes a real expectation: developers are the first line of defense, but most have never been taught application security formally. The category sits at the intersection of AppSec and learning, and it exists to close the gap between the vulnerabilities your scanners find and the developers who keep introducing them. Done well, it reduces recurring defect classes and gives you defensible evidence for compliance frameworks that mandate secure development training.
We cover 38 Secure Code Training tools, 11 free and 27 commercial.
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New to this category? What is Secure Code Training?
Online web app pentesting training program with certification exam
Application security training course for software developers covering SDL
Secure code training platform for developers with personalized learning paths
A role-based application security training platform that provides developers with courses and hands-on labs to build secure development expertise and meet compliance requirements.
Node.js Goof is a vulnerable Node.js demo application containing multiple security vulnerabilities for testing and educational purposes.
Security code and AI security training platform for developers
A set of 48 practical programming exercises in cryptography and application security
DIVA Android is an intentionally vulnerable Android application designed to teach security professionals and developers about mobile application security flaws through hands-on learning.
OWASP WrongSecrets is an educational game that teaches proper secrets management by demonstrating common mistakes through interactive challenges across various deployment platforms.
TerraGoat is a deliberately vulnerable Terraform repository that demonstrates common cloud infrastructure misconfigurations for training and testing security tools.
WebGoat is an OWASP-maintained deliberately insecure web application designed to teach web application security through hands-on exercises with intentional vulnerabilities.
A serverless application that demonstrates common serverless security flaws and weaknesses
NodeGoat provides an environment to learn and address OWASP Top 10 security risks in Node.js web applications.
A deliberately vulnerable Java web application designed for educational purposes to teach web application security concepts and common vulnerabilities.
How to choose Secure Code Training tools
- Match language and framework coverage to your real stack, including the older or niche languages your legacy systems still run on.
- Favor hands-on, exploit-and-fix labs over passive video; developers retain what they break and repair, not what they watch.
- Check how skills and progress are measured, and whether you can tie training data back to the vulnerability classes your scanners actually find.
- Verify content maps to the frameworks you answer to: OWASP Top 10, CWE, SANS, PCI DSS, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.
- Look at where the training lives; integration into IDEs, CI pipelines, and ticketing keeps learning in the flow of work instead of as a separate chore.
- Run a pilot before rolling out widely, because a platform engineers resent gets clicked through rather than absorbed.
Secure Code Training Tools FAQ
Common questions about Secure Code Training tools, selection guides, pricing, and comparisons.
Secure code training teaches developers to write code that resists common vulnerabilities and to spot insecure patterns during development. The tools in this category typically use interactive, language-specific labs where developers exploit a flaw and then fix it, covering issues like injection, broken access control, and insecure deserialization. The goal is fewer recurring defects and developers who can reason about security, not just memorize a checklist.
Security awareness training targets all employees and focuses on phishing, passwords, and social engineering. Secure code training is built specifically for developers and engineers, and it lives in the code itself: real languages, real frameworks, real vulnerability classes from the OWASP Top 10 and CWE. One protects the human attack surface broadly; the other reduces the vulnerabilities your own teams introduce into production software.
Match the platform's language and framework coverage to your actual stack, then weigh how hands-on the exercises are versus passive video content. Look for measurable skills tracking, integration with your SDLC and dev tools, and whether content maps to frameworks like OWASP, SANS, PCI DSS, or SOC 2. Developer experience matters more than catalog size: training that engineers resent gets clicked through, not learned.
Yes. Frameworks like PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and many regulatory regimes expect or require documented secure development training for engineers. Most platforms in this category provide completion reporting, certificates, and audit trails you can hand to assessors. Just confirm the reporting is granular enough to prove who trained on what and when, since auditors increasingly ask for evidence beyond a single annual sign-off.
Building in-house gives you content tuned to your exact stack and codebase, but it is expensive to maintain as languages, frameworks, and vulnerability classes evolve. Commercial platforms bring large, regularly updated content libraries, gamification, and built-in reporting. Many teams blend both: buy the platform for breadth and consistency, then layer in a few internal modules for your highest-risk, organization-specific patterns.
