March 2024

New

Course Nudges

The "Nudge" feature allows Admins to remind users about pending courses and end-of-course-assessments. You can send the reminders at your convenience and add a custom message to encourage developers to complete the course.

The following applies to the course nudges:

• Nudges will be sent to users whose course status is either "Not Started" or "In Progress"
• Nudges won't be sent to users who have already completed the course
• If the user has completed the course, nudges will still be sent to remind them to complete the end-of-course assessment
• Nudges can't be sent if the Course has the LMS option enabled
• Nudges can't be sent if the course is in 'Preview'
• There is no limit on the number of nudges you can send

Programs Validation 

This new feature streamlines program creation & maintenance by catching potential validation issues early and providing you visibility before publishing your program. The following types of validation messages are covered: 

• Scheduling conflicts 
• Missing assessments 
• Course in preview mode 
• Superseded assessments 

Videos are now in Explore

In addition to Coding Labs, it is now possible to search for Videos on the Explore page. Filters have also been improved, to allow searching for a wider variety of concepts and vulnerabilities.

Bulk Edit Course Activity Attributes

We have provided the ability to bulk edit challenges and missions to help reduce the amount of time admins need to spend when updating activities within a course.

Challenges parameters which can be bulk edited:

• Stage

• Checkpoint

• Hints

Missions parameters which can be bulk edited:

• Hints

C++ coding guidelines

17 new coding guidelines with C++ support have been added to the platform in the following categories:

• Business Logic
  • Insufficient Validation
  • Logical Errors
• Information Exposure
  • Error Details
• Injection Flaws
  • OS Command Injection
  • Path Traversal
• Insecure Cryptography
  • Insecure Randomness
• Memory Corruption
  • Buffer Overflow
  • Double Free
  • Format String Vulnerability
  • Heap Overflow
  • Illegal Pointer Value
  • Integer Overflow
  • Null Dereference
  • Race Conditions
  • Uninitialized Variables
  • Use After Free
• Security Misconfiguration
  • Improper Permissions

Invite users/teams to courses via API

New API endpoint has been added to assign courses to users or teams. Please review API documentation for further information.

In Preview

Intelligence & Reporting preview

We've released 3 new reports this month! Course, Assessment and Program reports are available under 'Metrics' tab in the Intelligence & Reporting preview. We'd love to hear your feedback - either through the 'Help' tab in the app, or by reaching out to your CSM.

Course Report

This new report provides an overview of how learners are performing in your Courses, including their performance against different vulnerabilities and how far each learner has progressed through the course content.

The vulnerabilities and participants tables have export capability. The participants table also has many more columns available if required.

Assessment Report

This new report provides an overview of how learners are performing in Assessments, including summaries of how your learners are performing against different vulnerabilities and how far each learner has progressed through the course content.

The vulnerabilities and participants tables have export capability. The participants table also has many more columns available if required.

Program Report

This new report provides an overview of how learners are performing in Programs, including summaries of which Program Levels your learners have obtained and how they are progressing over time.

The vulnerabilities and participants tables have export capability. The participants table also has many more columns available if required.