Tournaments Module Overview

On the surface, tournaments are often used to introduce a new application security program and direction for security awareness. That ‘new application security program’ would be built alongside the Secure Code Warrior® learning platform.

Often, the usual forms of training are seen as a necessary evil; boring, but mandatory.

Check out the video below and review this article for a quick overview on tournaments.

Having a tournament introduces a fun, competitive aspect to training that’s designed to get people interested, involved, and familiar with the platform’s gamified learning experience.

Complete with a range of challenges, set time limits, a leaderboard, and prizes, tournaments generate a buzz that makes secure coding cool and gets participants thinking about it in a more positive way.

They’re also a great way to determine your company’s current level of security awareness as well as current strengths and weaknesses that can be leveraged or fortified respectively.

Note: While running a tournament is a great way to kick-off security awareness programs, there’s no reason not to run them periodically throughout the year as they can always generate excitement about an actual fun (and really effective) way of training.

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Key tournaments takeaways are beneficial for both companies and their VIPs (aka the developers).

In tournaments, developers will:

Compete in hands-on coding challenges against peers using the same languages and frameworks
Navigate through a variety of vulnerabilities in the OWASP and beyond
Build awareness in recognizing vulnerabilities and how they work
Level up skills in finding vulnerabilities during code reviews
Understand how to mitigate and solve vulnerabilities
Experience the impact of exploits found in real-world app simulations in playable bonus-levels.
Earn points by accurately pointing out correct lines of secure code
Receive good tidings and glory upon tournament completion

From a company standpoint, tournaments will:

Help give a brand to security awareness programs
Build a positive secure coding culture for teams
Encourage engagement and active learning
Establish a baseline for future training

Below, we’ve collected a few useful articles that can help turn anyone into a tournament superstar.

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