Secure development training in CTF format
Take an attacker's view to better secure your applications. Through hands-on Capture The Flag challenges, learn to identify, exploit and fix vulnerabilities, and build lasting secure development reflexes.
RED-110 · Foundation · 1 day · Individual or team · Hands-on CTF
Why learn secure development through a CTF?
Vulnerabilities are often hard to anticipate until you have seen one exploited. This CTF course puts participants in front of deliberately vulnerable applications, systems and scenarios, so they see in practice how a flaw is found, exploited and then fixed.
Through a series of Capture The Flag challenges, each participant progresses at their own pace, hunting for "flags": proofs of success hidden in the environments provided. Each challenge turns a security concept into a hands-on experience that is immediately clear and memorable.
By taking the attacker's point of view, developers, IT and DevOps teams and security specialists learn to spot earlier the weaknesses that could be abused. This offensive approach strengthens application security reflexes and makes them easier to carry into real projects.
The challenges are spread across three levels, so that each participant progresses according to their experience:
- Beginner
- Discovery
- Intermediate
- Going deeper
- Advanced
- Expertise
What you will be able to put into practice
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Identify
security weaknesses earlier by analysing deliberately vulnerable applications and scenarios.
- Understand
how a vulnerability is exploited by working directly with the attack techniques and vectors used in realistic situations.
- Strengthen
secure development reflexes through a practical, progressive and collaborative approach, individually or in teams.
- Apply
what you have learned to real projects to better secure applications, IT environments and development practices.
The format in practice
Duration
1 day
Participation
Individual or team
Individual or team participation · Open access to the challenges
Format
- Capture The Flag challenges
- 3 progression levels
Prerequisites
- No mandatory prerequisites
Certification
Certificate of attendance issued at the end of the day
Each participant receives this digital badge in their name, level 1 of 3 in the Offensive series.
Assessment
- Progress assessed continuously as challenges are solved and flags validated
Who it is for
- Developers
- IT and DevOps teams
- Cybersecurity professionals
- Beginner to advanced profiles
Methods
- Hands-on challenges
- Progression over 3 levels
- Explanation after each flag
- Solved individually or in teams
Materials
- Dedicated CTF platform
- Detailed explanations
- Live leaderboard
Practice
- Offensive security
- Secure development
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