Secure Code Warrior Reviews & Product Details

Secure Code Warrior is a Developer Risk Management Platform enabling enterprises to implement new standards for secure code throughout the software development lifecycle. With an integrated approach of organizationally benchmarking secure code skills, governance by quality gates integrated during code changes and upskilling with dynamic agile learning opportunities, Secure Code Warrior allows cybersecurity teams and CISOs to go beyond basic compliance initiatives. Efficiently measure, manage and mitigate security risk to eliminate introduced vulnerabilities by up to 53%, reduce MTTR by 2x, ease tension between security and engineering teams and provide continued development opportunities to help retain top talent.

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German, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Overview by

Scott Shapiro

Secure Code Warrior Media

These 10,000+ activities represent more than a number. They reflect the global impact of thousands of developers and teams embedding security into their everyday workflows.

What is SCW Trust Agent? Visibility and control to scale developer-driven security.

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Secure by Design: Defining Best Practices, Enabling Developers and Benchmarking Preventative Security Outcomes

AI Coding Assistants: A Guide to Security-Safe Navigation for the Next Generation of Developers

The No-BS Guide to Defending Your Applications Against the OWASP Top 10 2025

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Vis C.

Software Security Technical Director

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/17/2022

"A true secure coding training platform for software developers"

5/5

What do you like best about Secure Code Warrior?

The ability to be hands-on to learn secure coding as a sofware developer/programmer. As a beginner in secure coding, I can refer to the resources section (videos). As an intermediate level, I can play with challenges on the training or courses ground. As an expert, I can take assessments or participate in timed-tournaments. SCW is for every skill level of a developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Secure Code Warrior?

The GUI sometimes shapes out when operating it at high loads (prolonged period of use). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Secure Code Warrior:

While there are tens of other tools in the market on secure coding, SecureCodeWarrior is the best platform that works for every software developer in the world, whatever skill level s/he is at. I recommend every company in the market that makes software for any business reasons to use SecureCodeWarrior as a training platform on secure coding to their developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Secure Code Warrior solving and how is that benefiting you?

Multiple.

1. Every software developer who joins the company is trained on OWASP Top 10 (at awareness level, at high skilled level). Based on secure coding skill, we can assign the developer to low sensitive or high sensitve projects.

2. PCI DSS compliance enforces software developers undergo the mandatory training. Thankfully, SCW provides secure coding course as compliant with PCI-DSS. This helps to showcase the developer's attendance and completion report during PCI-DSS audits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James H.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/16/2022

"Intuitive and fun"

5/5

What do you like best about Secure Code Warrior?

It is extremely easy to pick up Secure Code Warrior and it's fun too. It feels like you're playing and game and before you know it, you're learning how to write secure code! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Secure Code Warrior?

Secure Code Warrior was not a good fit for Software Testers. However, this changed with Missions. Everyone I have spoken to, be it Developers or QAs, enjoys playing SCW Missions. I feel the platform could be improved further with Missions that were tailored toward black box penetration testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Secure Code Warrior:

Try it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Secure Code Warrior solving and how is that benefiting you?

Secure Code Warrior has helped to raise awareness of security vulnerabilities, educate how the vulnerabilities can be exploited, highlight the damage the exploitation can cause to a business, and show best practices to prevent the vulnerabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jose J.

Cybersecurity Education Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/23/2022

"Awesome platform to get introduced to Secure Coding Practices"

4/5

What do you like best about Secure Code Warrior?

The Platform was very easy to use, especially for onboarding. Also, it supports a breadth of languages which makes it easy to design security education programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Secure Code Warrior?

Nothing to dislike. As an education platform, it's tricky to get the depth of content. As a platform, it's great for starters and engineers new to a programming language to learn the best practices of a particular framework, however, it's difficult to keep the engagement once the developer has reached a certain level of maturity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Secure Code Warrior solving and how is that benefiting you?

Introducing engineers to secure coding and ensuring that they are familiar with best practices of a particular language or framework. Also making engineers aware of top vulnerabilities associated with a particular programming language. It plays a part in improving security culture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jake D.

Application Security Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/18/2022

"Secure Code Warrior is a great place to expand a developers knowledge on secure coding."

5/5

What do you like best about Secure Code Warrior?

The best part of Secure Code Warrior is how the UI is fun and interactive, which helps keep developers interested and focused on the tasks at hand, and also helps make them want to take part on their own accord. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Secure Code Warrior?

There isn't much to dislike. Sometimes the hints are less helpful than they could be as they will take away an answer rather than give more details about it, however, this is something that we raised with the Secure Code Warrior team and they took this on board and have already started working on better ways to represent the hints to give the developers the best experience when completing their courses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Secure Code Warrior solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work in the application security department of my company, and as such, it is my responsibility to ensure the developers are coding securely. With the help of Secure Code Warrior courses, I can ensure that every developer is trained to look out for certain threat vectors, and how to overcome them when they are coding. This sets a standard where we know the developers are keeping security in mind whilst creating new features which in turn helps reduce the number of vulnerabilities pushed to development. If a vulnerability is created and pushed to development, the cost to fix this is 10x more than if it was handled correctly to begin with. Secure Code Warrior helps to make sure the 'shift left' security methodology is applied effectively and sets a standard of knowledge you can prove across the business with the assessments the developers must pass. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hardy V.

IT Security specialist / advisor

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/8/2022

"SCW our journey to date"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Secure Code Warrior?

The gamification aspect, across a lot of computer languages, some vendors only offer it in one language/platform. During a tournament, developers/programmers can also compete with others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Secure Code Warrior?

Learning Needs Analysis at an individual even team level needs further development. Some activities do not count towards achieving higher maturity, e.g. from Beginner to Security Aware, when it clearly should be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Secure Code Warrior:

Macro learning and gamification are the most attractive features of SCW. Considering the cost of specialised courses, the annual cost per person for a corporate license, is reasonable. Do note that you need to have a clear Program and Communications Plan to get the most out of SCW. Running tournaments within and outside your organisation will be beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Secure Code Warrior solving and how is that benefiting you?

Getting staff to think about OWASP Top 10, log4J vulnerabilities and realising that it doesn't take as much effort as initially thought to make their apps more secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel L.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/12/2022

"Great place to learn writing good codes"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Secure Code Warrior?

I love that I can choose from multiple programming languages. And moreover, I love the competition style that gets me motivated to complete the tutorials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Secure Code Warrior?

I think they could have video tutorials explaining how to write secure code instead of just reading the tutorial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jordan B.

Developer Intern

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/8/2022

"Security Exposure by Example"

5/5

What do you like best about Secure Code Warrior?

I love how Secure Code Warrior provides concrete examples of vulnerable code. It is often difficult to find straightforward examples of vulnerable code in applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Secure Code Warrior?

Sometimes it is unclear what the path to exploitation was even after being presented with the suggested fix for the vulnerability. I would love to see a video or written explanation of how an attacker might exploit the vulnerability in the provided example and how the approved patch fixes the vulnerability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Secure Code Warrior:

I highly recommend that you give Secure Code Warrior a try and maybe even require your developers to complete at least one module in a language of their choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Secure Code Warrior solving and how is that benefiting you?

Secure Code Warrior helps solve the problem of developers not having much exposure to real-world vulnerabilities. By providing examples of what vulnerable code looks like, developers are more likely to consider security when writing code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rick R.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/31/2022

"A great way to frustrate your devs"

1/5

What do you like best about Secure Code Warrior?

The training videos were reasonable. The examples were clear. The assessments were nothing like them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Secure Code Warrior?

The assessment code was unintelligible at best. No comments, no context as to what a function or class is supposed to be doing. Constrained to a terrible online IDE with no quality-of-life functionality that would be used to review code (e.g. no control-click to take you to a class or variable definition) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Secure Code Warrior of Secure Code Warrior

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Thank you for sharing your feedback and giving us the opportunity to learn from your experience.

We want to make sure that Secure Code Warrior is meeting your needs and that we address this as best as possible.

Please reach out to customersuccess@scw.io if you're open to discussing this directly so that we can help.

Kind Regards,

The Secure Code Warrior Team

Mario A.

Security Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/24/2022

"Really good platform for training developers on secure coding techniques."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Secure Code Warrior?

The platform makes available interactive activities for developers so they can immediately test what they see during the course.

The support of the SCW team is precious. They're always available for advice and support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Secure Code Warrior?

Nothing in particular. It would be fine to have more flexibility in the management of the teams and the languages assigned to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.