SafeStack Introduces Assessments for Secure Development Training

We're excited to announce a significant enhancement to our Secure Development Training platform! SafeStack has just released comprehensive assessments to help organizations validate learning and measure the effectiveness of their security education programs.

What's New?

Our secure development training now includes optional assessments (quizzes) that test learners' understanding of critical security concepts. These assessments provide a structured way to verify knowledge retention and ensure your team is getting the most from their training experience.

Assessment Features

• Multiple Choice Format: Each assessment consists of 10 carefully crafted multiple-choice questions

• Validation of Learning: Learners must correctly answer 8 or more questions to successfully complete an assessment

• Available Across Modules: Assessments have been implemented across many of our secure development courses

• Flexible Implementation: Assessments are optional by default, giving you control over your learning experience

How It Works

The new assessment feature is designed to be both flexible and effective:

1. Optional by Default: We understand every organization has different training needs, so assessments are optional out of the box

2. Configurable by Group Leaders: Group leaders can choose to make assessments mandatory for their teams, by navigating to Settings → Organization

3. Clear Completion Requirements: If set as mandatory, learners must successfully complete the assessment (scoring at least 80%) to complete the module

Benefits for Your Organization

• Verify Knowledge Transfer: Ensure security concepts aren't just viewed but genuinely understood

• Identify Knowledge Gaps: Pinpoint areas where additional training may be beneficial

• Demonstrate Compliance: Generate evidence of training effectiveness for compliance requirements

• Increase Engagement: Add a motivational element to the learning process with clear goals

Getting Started

These new assessments are available now for most of our courses and all our existing customers. Group leaders can access the assessment configuration settings from their organization settings, to determine whether assessments should be optional or mandatory for their teams.

For more information about how to leverage assessments in your security training program, reach out to our support team at [email protected]

We're committed to continuously improving our platform to make security education more effective and engaging. We look forward to hearing your feedback on this new feature as you incorporate assessments into your secure development training program.

We're excited to announce the release of six new security awareness training courses, further expanding our commitment to making security education accessible and engaging for everyone. In partnership with Mindshift, these courses are designed with a people-first approach, ensuring that complex security concepts are presented in a way that resonates with learners at all levels.

Meet Our New Courses

1. An Introduction to Generative AI

In this 10 minute module, you’ll learn what generative AI means, how to use it safely and tips for how to get the best out of it.

2. Communicating Safely

In this 15 minute course, you will learn how to communicate safely online and offline.

3. Cyber Safe Workspaces and Devices

In this course, you'll learn how to keep information safe by setting up a safe workspace and having secure devices.

4. Cyber Security Essentials

In this course, you'll learn about how you can keep your personal and business information safe.

5. Secure Your Online Accounts

In this 15 minute course, you’ll learn how to keep your online accounts secure by using passphrases, a password manager and turning on multi-factor authentication.

6. Spot the Scams

In this 15 minute course, you’ll learn how to spot the warning signs of scams, and how to respond.

Find all six courses pre-organized in our Awareness Essentials learning path template — designed to help your team get started with effective training quickly.

We’re excited to announce a key update to our learning platform: modules fromsome of our larger courses are now also available as smaller, more focused individual courses. This change is designed to enhance the learning experience by making it easier for learners to complete courses at a more manageable pace.

By breaking down our larger courses, we aim to support learners in achieving their goals without feeling overwhelmed, making their secure development training even more achievable!

What’s New?

• Smaller Course Sizes: Our longer, content-heavy courses are now also available as much smaller, digestible courses. This means learners can absorb information in bite-sized pieces, reducing the pressure of completing extensive modules, all in one go.

• Flexible Learning: With smaller courses

  • Learners can now spread their training over several weeks or months. This flexibility allows them to focus on one module at a time, ensuring better retention and a more manageable workload.

  • Group leaders can add more focused training modules in learning paths, making the learning paths much smaller, more achievable and better customised for your specific training needs.

• Larger Courses Still Available: If you prefer the original format, don’t worry! The larger, comprehensive courses remain available for those who enjoy diving deep into a topic all at once.

• Seamless Progress Tracking: As an added bonus, any progress made in the smaller modules will automatically carry over into the corresponding larger course (and the other way around). This ensures that no effort is lost, and learners can switch between formats without missing a beat. If you have already completed one of these modules in the original course, this completion will be carried over into the smaller course as well.

What courses are now available as smaller courses?

The Finding and Fixing Web Application Security Vulnerabilities course is about 4 hours and 33 minutes long. It contains 13 modules in total.

All its core modules (except for the introduction) are now available as individual courses:

1. Finding and Fixing: Object Access Vulnerabilities

2. Finding and Fixing: Enumeration Vulnerabilities

3. Finding and Fixing: SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

4. Finding and Fixing: Configuration Vulnerabilities

5. Finding and Fixing: Operating System Injection Vulnerabilities

6. Finding and Fixing: Passwords and Authentication

7. Finding and Fixing: Session Vulnerabilities

8. Finding and Fixing: Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (XSS)

9. Finding and Fixing: Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

10. Finding and Fixing: Path Traversal Vulnerabilities

11. Finding and Fixing: Return of the SQL Injection

12. Finding and Fixing: XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerabilities

The Finding and Fixing API Security Vulnerabilities course is about 2 hours and 29 minutes long. It contains 10 modules in total.

All its core modules (except for the introduction) are now available as individual courses:

1. Applying Security Concepts to Development and Operations

2. Finding and Fixing: Broken API Authentication Vulnerabilities

3. Finding and Fixing: Broken API Authorisation Vulnerabilities

4. Finding and Fixing: API Data Exposure Vulnerabilities

5. Finding and Fixing: API Resource Limitations Vulnerabilities

6. Finding and Fixing: API Mass Assignment Vulnerabilities

7. Finding and Fixing: API Injection Vulnerabilities

8. Finding and Fixing: API Misconfiguration and Mismanagement Vulnerabilities

9. Transitioning To Microservices or Hybrid Architectures

The Introduction to DevSecOps is about 3 hours and 19 minutes long. It contains 5 modules in total.

All its modules are now available as individual courses:

1. DevSecOps: Culture and Processes

2. DevSecOps: Cloud Security

3. DevSecOps: Securing Source Code and Deployment Pipelines

4. DevSecOps Defence

5. Strategically Growing DevSecOps

This update is all about giving you more control over your learning experience, while still offering the flexibility to choose the format that best suits your needs.

Drata is a security and compliance automation platform that continuously monitors and collects evidence of a company's security controls. Security training provided by SafeStack forms an integral part of a robust compliance and security control strategy.

We are happy to announce our new Drata integration functionality, allowing customers to automatically upload completion evidence of their learners’ security training, from SafeStack, into Drata.

Just pick the learning paths you want to track when setting up the integration and you’re good to go! When users complete their learning paths, an evidence PDF will be generated and uploaded to Drata automatically, marking their own security training as completed within Drata.

This removes the hassle of uploading evidence manually for your team and keeps compliance information in Drata up to date.

If your organization is using, or planning to use Drata to automate compliance related tasks, check out our Drata integration today.