When a vulnerability shows up in a ticket, it’s often already been committed and maybe even deployed. Fixing it means a whole lot more work and time, which could have been spent on business-critical projects. What if developers could learn to prevent vulnerabilities much earlier?
SecureFlag helps teams do just that. Aside from its hands-on labs and learning paths, it also integrates with the tools your teams use every day, from threat modeling to remediation training.
What Makes SecureFlag Stand Out
What sets SecureFlag apart is that developers can practice finding, exploiting, and fixing vulnerabilities in realistic virtualized environments with support for over 50 technologies.
With a mix of practical lab training, personalized learning, and workflow integrations, teams can improve their secure coding practices, while security leaders can see progress and results.
Here’s how to bring all of that into the places where your teams already work.
Seamless Access With Single Sign-On and User Provisioning
For security training to be part of daily workflows, access needs to be straightforward and secure. People have enough passwords to remember, and it’s less frustrating if training didn’t require yet another login.
SecureFlag supports Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML or OAuth, so that teams can log in once with their existing credentials. It also keeps authentication centralized and speeds up onboarding.
For those organizations that manage hundreds of users, SecureFlag also supports SCIM for automated user provisioning. User accounts can be created, updated, or deactivated automatically based on your identity provider, reducing manual admin work and keeping permissions up to date.
SSO and SCIM are compatible with leading identity platforms like Azure, Okta, and OneLogin, and setup can be handled directly through the SecureFlag Management Portal.
Deliver Secure Coding Training Through Your LMS
If your organization already uses a learning management system (LMS), like Moodle, the good news is that SecureFlag can integrate training into your existing setup.
Using SCORM integration, SecureFlag learning paths can be delivered inside your LMS, so that teams can access secure coding training alongside their other internal courses. You can choose from pre-built learning paths or, if you want something more customized, create new ones tailored to specific roles, technologies, or security goals.
Just-in-Time Training Inside Developer Workflows
Security guidance is more useful if it shows up exactly when teams need it, rather than later during a scheduled training session.
Jira and Azure Boards
When a vulnerability gets logged as a Jira or an Azure Boards work item, SecureFlag links it to relevant training.
Instead of a developer just seeing something like “SQL Injection found,” they can learn where it originates, how to fix it, and have access to a lab in their programming language. If you’re looking to shorten the time to remediate vulnerabilities, it’s an added benefit.
GitHub and GitLab
SecureFlag integrates with both GitHub and GitLab to give security guidance from issues, pull requests, and scan results.
When vulnerabilities are found, developers get tailored training recommendations and access to live labs where they can practice fixes before applying them. Learning becomes part of the development process, rather than something separate.
Git Hooks and GitHub Actions
Teams can also embed SecureFlag into version control workflows using Git hooks and our GitHub Actions, such as during commits or before merges.
Each time a commit is made that references a vulnerability, the hook checks if the required SecureFlag training for that vulnerability has been completed.
And for GitHub, when a pull request references a vulnerability, such as XSS or command injection, developers get a notification with links to complete the specific training they need.
Enhancing Security Findings with Contextual Guidance
SonarQube
With the SecureFlag SonarQube integration, security findings are more than just a list of bugs. A dedicated project page shows recent vulnerabilities and security hotspots alongside recommended labs, remediation advice, and example code.
Rather than Googling how to fix something, developers get practical guidance built for their exact situation.
SecureFlag Analyzer Extension
The SecureFlag Analyzer, currently for VS Code and IntelliJ IDEA, connects security findings to training even earlier in the process.
While working on a new feature or reviewing legacy code, SecureFlag Analyzer helps teams write safer code by identifying potential vulnerabilities and pointing them to the exact resources they need to fix and learn from them.
Shortcut Integration
If your organization uses the project management software, Shortcut, when creating a new story, all that’s needed is to mention a CWE reference or security vulnerability in the description. SecureFlag automatically retrieves relevant information from its knowledge base, providing developers with the right guidance when they need it.
Connecting Scan Results to Training with SARIF
SecureFlag supports the Static Analysis Results Interchange Format (SARIF), making it easier to process and act on scanner findings from tools such as Snyk, Fortify, and Veracode.
Each vulnerability gets automatically matched to relevant training. For example, if a cross-site scripting issue is found in a SARIF report, SecureFlag then recommends a lab that focuses on identifying and fixing XSS in the same language your team uses.
In this way, scan results become learning opportunities, and remediation happens faster with less repetition.
Extending SecureFlag with OpenAPI and REST APIs
For teams that want more customization, SecureFlag offers both OpenAPI integrations and REST APIs.
The OpenAPI integration lets you embed SecureFlag content and labs into your own applications, which is useful for platforms focused on vulnerability management, penetration testing, dependency scanning, attack surface management, or application security testing.
If you’re looking to save time, organizations can automate user management, assignments, and progress tracking with REST APIs.
Threat Modeling With ThreatCanvas
Secure coding starts with understanding what could go wrong from the very beginning, already in the design phase. ThreatCanvas integrates with Jira and Azure Boards to make threat modeling part of your team’s development process.
Teams can create and maintain threat models from their work items, linking risks to epics, stories, specific features, or components. It makes threat modeling more collaborative and an ongoing activity, rather than just something done once.
Live Notifications Across Collaboration Tools
Another method to keep teams engaged and informed throughout training is to set up SecureFlag’s live notifications in Slack and Microsoft Teams, or use webhooks.
Teams get automatic reminders for upcoming or incomplete training activities, and it also notifies users when they reach key milestones, such as earning trophies, completing certifications, or placing in tournaments.
Let’s not forget the trivia quizzes that keep learning up to speed.
Deliver Security Training Where It Happens
Sometimes, traditional security training isn’t effective because it’s mostly theory and not always relevant to what happens in the workplace. SecureFlag, however, brings practical training into everyday development using the tools and technologies teams already use.
Our interactive labs, learning paths, and integrations make secure coding training fun and rewarding. What’s more, threat modeling with ThreatCanvas helps teams think like an attacker and find risks much earlier, before they become rework later on.
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