Built by AppSec veterans.
For AppSec teams & AI agents.
We are a team of seasoned application security specialists and software engineers who spent years on the front lines — running pentests, triaging vulnerabilities, and training developers. We built SecureCodingHub because we know what actually works.
Ten years in static analysis. Five years writing the training. One year turning it into a product.
SecureCodingHub started with a team that has spent more than a decade inside static application security testing — building engines, tuning rule packs, sitting next to development teams during triage, and watching the same vulnerability classes resurface release after release. The product isn't an outsider's read on what developers need; it's the consolidation of what we already wrote, taught, and iterated on for years before deciding to ship it as a platform.
By 2020, the team had moved beyond tooling into training. We were producing serious technical content — code-level walkthroughs, language-specific deep dives, secure SDLC playbooks — for the engineering teams using our static analysis work. The audiences kept growing. The questions kept coming. The same gaps in commercial secure coding training kept showing up.
In 2024 we made the call: take everything that had been working, and turn it into a product. SecureCodingHub launched in 2025 as the productized version of work we'd already validated on real engineering teams — interactive code review challenges, realistic guided scenarios, language-aware OWASP coverage, and the measurable progress signals that compliance frameworks like PCI DSS 4.0.1 and the EU Cyber Resilience Act now demand.
Built engine-out, not slide-deck-in.
Most secure coding training comes from instructional design teams who consume security knowledge secondhand. SecureCodingHub comes from the other direction: a team that built the static analysis tooling first, then wrote the training material that helped developers act on what those tools were flagging. Every challenge starts from a real vulnerability shape we've seen in production code, mapped to the CWE and OWASP classification, and rendered in the language and framework the developer actually ships in.
That shows up in three places. Coverage: 185+ vulnerability types across 15 languages, mapped to the full OWASP Top 10 lineage and 40+ CWE clusters — not the dozen-or-so highlights that ship in most off-the-shelf training catalogs. Mode: two parallel learning modes — code review challenges where the developer finds the vulnerable block then selects the correct fix, and guided scenarios with realistic system context — instead of one-size-fits-all video paths. Audience: built for both human developers and the AI-assisted coding agents now writing significant portions of production code, with adversarial patterns specifically designed to be useful in code-review against AI-generated output.
If you're evaluating against Secure Code Warrior, Secure Journeys, or comparable platforms, the easiest mental model is this: we ship the same compliance coverage, with deeper code-level material per topic, and a stronger lean toward the language-specific patterns that show up in modern stacks (TypeScript, Go, Rust, Kotlin, modern Python) where the older catalogs still over-index on Java EE and PHP.
Four people writing this. Two decades combined.
SecureCodingHub is a small team. Caner Özden (Founder, Application Security Lead) anchors the secure SDLC and regulatory side — sixteen years across defense industry static analysis and telecom-scale secure coding programs. Emre Sakarya (Principal Software Developer) runs the deep code-level work — SAST engine internals, taint analysis, and code review at scale. Melissa Benian (Sales Manager) handles the buyer-side half — what compliance teams, learning officers, and procurement leads actually need to evaluate a secure coding training program. Dr. Ceren Küpeli (Legal Counsel) brings the legal and cyber criminology lens — incident response, digital evidence, and the regulatory frameworks engineering teams have to ship within.
Each of us writes for the part of the SecureCodingHub blog where our work is sharpest, so the byline you see on a post is the person whose hands are actually in that material every week.
Meet the teamBuilt By
Industry-experienced AppSec experts and developers
- ◆Pentesters and security consultants who've audited Fortune 500 codebases
- ◆Software engineers who've shipped production systems at scale
- ◆Security trainers who've educated thousands of developers globally
- ◆DevSecOps practitioners who've integrated security into CI/CD pipelines
Built For
AppSec professionals and AI-powered security agents
- ◆AppSec teams running developer security programs at enterprise scale
- ◆Security champions embedded within engineering organizations
- ◆AI agents that need structured, machine-readable security training content
- ◆Engineering leaders who want measurable security competency data
Security training that developers actually complete.
Real Code, Real Vulnerabilities
Every challenge uses production-realistic code patterns — not toy examples. Developers review actual vulnerable implementations in their preferred language and framework.
Guided Scenarios
Step-by-step interactive walkthroughs that let developers experience how attackers exploit vulnerabilities — from reconnaissance to exploitation to remediation.
Measurable Outcomes
Track individual and team progress across vulnerability categories. Know exactly which security topics your developers have mastered and where gaps remain.
Enterprise-Ready
SSO, SCIM provisioning, SCORM integration, assignment workflows, and team dashboards. Built to fit into how your organization already operates.
Ready to see it in action?
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