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title: Developer Security Training & DevSecOps
url: "https://cs.abinantony.io/services/devsecops-training"
updated: 2026-08-03
type: service
source: Abin Antony Security
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# Security training for developers, and DevSecOps that survives contact with a sprint

> Developer security training is a hands-on workshop where a team exploits vulnerabilities in its own application and then fixes them, followed by wiring the matching checks into CI. It replaces annual slide decks with muscle memory, and leaves behind gates tuned to fail only on issues worth blocking a release.

## Key points

- Workshops use your codebase, not a generic vulnerable app — the lesson transfers because the code is familiar.
- Every session ends with a merged pull request, so the learning survives the day.
- CI gates are tuned for signal: a noisy pipeline gets disabled within a month, and everyone knows it.
- Delivered remotely or on-site in Kerala and across India.

Security training fails when it is abstract. Developers do not need a lecture on injection; they need to watch their own endpoint dump the users table, then fix it, then watch the CI rule catch the next attempt. That is the format.

## What the engagement covers

### Hands-on exploitation lab

A safe copy of your own application, pre-seeded with its real weaknesses, exploited by the team under guidance.

### Fix-along session

The same issues fixed live, in pairs, ending with reviewed pull requests against a branch you keep.

### Secure defaults playbook

A short, framework-specific document covering the patterns your team should reach for by default — validation, authorisation, crypto, file handling, secrets.

### CI security gates

SAST, dependency, secret and IaC scanning wired into your pipeline with rules tuned to your codebase, plus a documented triage path for each alert type.

### Code review checklist

A security checklist small enough that reviewers actually use it, integrated into your pull-request template.

### Threat modelling starter

A short session teaching the team to model a feature themselves, so design review does not always need an external consultant.

## Method

01. **Baseline** — A short assessment of the codebase and current pipeline to decide what the team most needs, rather than delivering a fixed curriculum.
02. **Lab preparation** — A safe environment built from your application, with real findings staged for exploitation.
03. **Workshop day** — Half exploitation, half remediation. Maximum twelve people so everybody gets hands on keys.
04. **Pipeline integration** — Gates added and tuned together with your platform engineer, with false-positive noise driven down before handover.
05. **Playbook handover** — Documentation delivered in your wiki, in your words, with your examples.
06. **Follow-up clinic** — A one-hour session four weeks later to unblock whatever the team hit in practice.

## Deliverables

- Recorded workshop and lab environment your team keeps
- Framework-specific secure defaults playbook
- Tuned CI configuration with documented triage paths
- Pull-request security checklist
- Follow-up clinic four weeks after delivery

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Duration | 1–2 days on-site, plus setup |
| Indicative price | from ₹35,000 per day |
| Standards | OWASP SAMM, NIST SSDF, OWASP ASVS |
| Tooling | Semgrep, gitleaks, Trivy, Dependabot / Renovate, GitHub Actions / GitLab CI, OWASP Juice Shop (warm-up only) |
| Retest | Included free within 30 days |

## Questions

**Remote or on-site?**

Both work. On-site across Kerala and India, remote anywhere — the lab is browser-accessible and the exercises are built for split screens.

**How technical is it?**

Aimed at working developers. No prior security knowledge is assumed, but everyone should be comfortable in the codebase and the terminal.

**Can you train QA and DevOps too?**

Yes — the pipeline and infrastructure modules are built for them, and mixed sessions work well because most findings live in the seam between the roles.

**Do you leave the lab behind?**

Yes. The environment, the exercises and the recording stay with you, so new joiners can run the same day.


## Sources

- [OWASP SAMM](https://owaspsamm.org/)
- [NIST Secure Software Development Framework](https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/ssdf)

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Abin Antony Security — Abin Antony, Kochi, Kerala. Contact: abina35@gmail.com · https://cs.abinantony.io