Developer-Tailored Secure Code Training: A New Approach from Security Journey

Security training for developers has traditionally been a one-size-fits-all experience—generic, compliance-driven, and often irrelevant to a developer’s actual work. At Security Journey, we recognize that real security impact starts with relevance. That’s why we’re introducing a developer-focused approach to secure code training that ensures organizations provide training tailored to their developers’ real-world responsibilities.

Introducing the Developer Profile and Developer Security Knowledge Assessments

The challenge many organizations face is a lack of visibility into their development teams’ languages, frameworks, and security expertise. Without this knowledge, security training is often misaligned, leading to wasted time, disengaged developers, and limited security improvements.

Security Journey is solving this challenge with two key innovations:

1. The Developer Profile – Captures critical information about each developer’s role, programming language, and tech stack to personalize training.
2. Developer Security Knowledge Assessments – Measure proficiency in secure coding, core security principles, and secure development practices to create individualized learning paths.

Together, these features ensure security training is relevant, engaging, and impactful—for both the developer and the organization.

How the Developer Profile Works

The Developer Profile is a key step in personalizing secure code training. When enabled by an organization, every developer completes a short profile that captures:

• Job Function – Identifies the developer’s primary role (backend, frontend, mobile, cloud, etc.).
• Programming Language – Ensures training is specific to the languages and frameworks they use daily.
• Tech Stack & Tools – Includes cloud platforms, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and other security-critical technologies.
• Experience Level – Helps adjust training depth based on junior, mid-level, or senior expertise.

Key Benefits of the Developer Profile:

• More Relevant Training – Developers receive lessons that apply directly to their work.
• Higher Engagement – When training is useful, developers pay attention and apply what they learn.
• Stronger Organizational Insights – Leaders gain a clear picture of their teams' skills and security gaps.

Assessments: Validating & Refining Security Knowledge

While the Developer Profile ensures training starts in the right place, Developer Security Knowledge Assessments ensure it stays effective.

Security Journey’s assessment system evaluates developers in three key areas:

• Secure Coding – Hands-on exercises that measure practical application.
• Core Security – Fundamental security knowledge every developer should know.
• Secure Development & Design – Broader security concepts for building secure software.

How Assessments Improve Training:

• Identify Skill Gaps – Organizations can pinpoint weaknesses and focus training accordingly.
• Adapt Learning Paths – Developers receive targeted lessons based on their security knowledge.
• Measure Security Maturity – Teams and organizations gain a clearer view of their security posture.

The Security Journey Advantage: Better for Developers & Organizations

Developers want training that helps them write better, more secure code. Security teams want to prevent vulnerabilities before they reach production. Security Journey’s Developer Profile and Assessment features make both possible by ensuring the right training reaches the right developers at the right time.

The Developer Profile and Assessment work together to create the most effective security training program by combining insightful data collection with real-world proficiency measurement. The Developer Profile ensures that training starts off on the right foot by aligning lessons with each developer’s actual role, programming language, and tech stack, eliminating irrelevant content and increasing engagement. The Assessment system then validates and refines this training by measuring knowledge gaps and tailoring learning paths to proficiency levels and actual training needs.

This dual approach not only maximizes learning efficiency for developers but also provides organizations with clear insights into security strengths and weaknesses across teams, allowing for strategic, data-driven improvements in secure coding practices. Together, they ensure that security training is both highly relevant and continuously adaptive, leading to stronger, more secure development teams.