What are Security Playgrounds
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.
How It Works:
Choose a scenario based on your tech stack and security interests.
Provision the lab, which is pre-configured with all necessary tools.
Learn by exploring vulnerabilities and applying security fixes with guided instructions.
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
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