Developing a secure coding training plan for frontend and backend developers as well as Quality Assurance (QA) engineers can be difficult. How can you develop an effective training plan that reduces vulnerabilities, doesn’t take time away from product development, and that developers will appreciate?

Based on working with hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of developers, we have derived best practices; whether you use HackEDU, another vendor, or develop training internally.

Every company is unique, so “best practices” for one organization may not always be the best practice for another organization. So conforming to all “best practices” laid out in this article may not be possible or even ideal. Try to optimize in as many areas as possible to get the most effective secure coding training plan.