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Founding duo
Pieter Danhieux, CEO, Director and Co-founder: Pieter Danhieux is a globally recognized security
expert, with over 12 years’ experience as a security consultant and 8 years as a Principal Instructor for SANS
teaching offensive techniques on how to target and assess organizations, systems, and individuals for security
weaknesses. In 2016, he was recognized as one of the Coolest Tech people in Australia (Business Insider),
awarded Cyber Security Professional of the Year (AISA - Australian Information Security Association) and holds
GSE, CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, GSEC, GPEN, GWAPT, GCIA certifications.
Matias Madou, Ph.D., CTO, Director, and Co-founder: Matias is a researcher and developer with
more than 15 years of hands-on software security experience. He has developed solutions for companies such
as HP Fortify and his own company Sensei Security. Over his career, Matias has led multiple application security
research projects which have led to commercial products and boasts over 10 patents under his belt. When he is
away from his desk, Matias has served as an instructor for advanced application security training courses and
regularly speaks at global conferences including RSA Conference, Black Hat, DefCon, BSIMM, OWASP AppSec,
and BruCon. Matias holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Ghent University, where he studied application
security through program obfuscation to hide the inner workings of an application.
The platform trains and equips
Developers to think and act with
a security mindset as they build
and verify their skills, gain real-
time advice and monitor skill
development.
An Innovative Approach
to Secure Coding
The team pioneered an innovative
approach to improving secure
coding skills and outcomes that
is simple, scalable and positive;
and works for both Development
and Security groups. The team
is driven by the knowledge that
measurable improvements in
security compliance, consistency
and predictability will be matched
by better quality and speed of
code writing. And that creates an
environment in which everyone can
enjoy spending more time building,
and less time fixing!
“We Know the Pain of
Dev versus Security”:
Secure Code Warrior
In a world that depends on software,
Secure Code Warrior makes
software development better and
more secure.
Secure Code Warrior ‘starts left’
within the Software Development
Life Cycle (SDLC); focusing on
making the Developer the first line
of defense and preventing coding
vulnerabilities in the first place.
Most current application security
tools focus on ‘shifting left’ in the
SDLC – an approach that supports
detection and reaction – detect the
vulnerabilities in the written code
and react to fix them. According to
the National Institute of Standards
and Technology, it is 30 times
more expensive to detect and fix
vulnerabilities in committed code
than it is to prevent them when
writing code in the IDE.
Secure Code Warrior’s unique
approach embeds security into
the DNA of Developers allowing
you to shift left with your Security
programs. It includes hands-on
training, team and company-wide
tournaments, as well as a real-time
guidance solution, Sensei, that
can be installed in a Developer’s
environment to monitor, measure
and correct coding mistakes that
lead to security vulnerabilities.
Secure Code Warrior’s learning
content covers over 50 different
vulnerability types including the
OWASP Top 10. The company
continuously revise and update
its challenges for new coding
frameworks and vulnerability types.
Eighty-five percent of exploited
vulnerabilities are attributed to
just 10 known vulnerabilities –
the OWASP Top 10. Secure Code
Warrior’s learning content covers
over 40 different vulnerability
types, including the OWASP Top
10. Its expert team continuously
revise and update its platform with
original challenges for new coding
frameworks and vulnerability types.
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