A time of serious challenges

The way we do business has always changed at the speed of technology, and in the past decades technological progress has been dominated by advancements in information technology. From the smallest service company to the largest multinational, software has become the dominating force behind innovation and competitive advantage.

Unfortunately, decades of rapid innovation have also exposed businesses worldwide to a new set of risks. Attackers are constantly searching for weaknesses in the software running at the very core of your organization. Protecting the integrity, confidentiality and availability of your digital information should be your top priority. Yet every day, new headlines inform you that yet another large organization has become the victim of a successful hack, leaking gigabytes of sensitive customer data and being subject to massive fines and penalties.

New laws and regulations

Governments and regulatory bodies are responding to this changing world by issuing increasingly demanding guidelines about how to protect your customer’s sensitive data, and issuing every larger fines for non-compliance. GDPR, PCI DSS, ISO 2700X, the list is long and ever-growing. On top of that, internal security and legal departments in large organizations create their own rules and regulations, adding to the already significant workload for product owners and development managers.

Luckily, you are not defenseless. Penetration testing, blue/red team exercises, intrusion detection software, web application firewalls - these and many more options are available for you to defend yourself against attackers. But the simplest and most cost-effective countermeasure you can take is to prevent creating insecure software in the first place.

Building secure solutions

Ximedes Security can help you by training your developers and software architects in designing, creating and maintaining secure software. With a focus on server-side web applications on the JVM (in Java and Kotlin), we can help your development team to design secure solutions from the ground up, and prevent making those little mistakes that can lead to big damages.

The Ximedes Secure Coding training combines teaching theoretical knowledge with a hands-on training, where participants are tasked with finding and fixing vulnerabilities in a modern Java application based on Spring Boot, Apache H2, ThymeLeaf, and React.

Highlights

Our two-day hands-on training teaches your team to:

• View web application architectures from a security perspective
• Understand the different types of vulnerabilities exploited by attackers
• How to prevent vulnerabilities by secure coding principles
• Perform code reviews to find vulnerabilities in existing codebases
• Implement secure coding processes at the team level