What Are Security Playgrounds?

Security Playgrounds are hands-on, sandbox-style environments designed to teach secure coding practices through real-world scenarios. Whether you're a developer or a cloud engineer, you'll learn how to defend against vulnerabilities while improving your programming skills.

Building on AppSecEngineer’s hands-on labs, Security Playgrounds focus on teaching critical security skills. Whatever language you use, there’s a playground tailored to your needs.

Learn how to effectively use a playground in our detailed guide on Using a Playground.

How It Works:

1. Choose a scenario based on your tech stack and security interests.

2. Provision the lab, which is pre-configured with all necessary tools.

3. Learn by exploring vulnerabilities and applying security fixes with guided instructions.

4. Clean Up effortlessly—environments are auto-deleted when you finish.

With a mix of offensive and defensive techniques, you'll attack a target with a specific vulnerability and then secure it using what you've learned.

What You’ll Gain:

By the end of a Playground, you’ll be able to:

• Understand how OWASP's Top 10 vulnerabilities affect your apps.

• Simplify complex security challenges for your tech stack.

• Apply offensive security techniques for vulnerabilities like Log4Shell, SQL Injection, and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).

• Gain hands-on experience defending against and fixing dangerous vulnerabilities.

Who Should Use Playgrounds?

• Developers seeking better secure coding practices.

• Cloud engineers looking to strengthen product security.

• Anyone passionate about hands-on application security

Available Playgrounds:

• Angular JS

• React JS

• Node JS

• Python

• Java

• Go

• Swift

• Ruby on Rails

• Kotlin
  

• Scala