Breaking Barriers: The Art of (Free) Gamified Security Training
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Open source secure coding game hosted on gh.io/securecodegame uses GitHub Codespaces and GitHub Advanced Security for instant, browser‑based labs, with 2,000 stars and 6,000+ players and template repos for JavaScript, Python, Go and GitHub Actions. Case study: a PropTech startup drops alerts from 180→7 (96%) and weekly office hours from 4+ hours to 15 minutes (97%), while 9/10 developers report they can now handle security issues autonomously.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and vision
- 1:24Problems with traditional training
- 3:10Case study and failure of office hours
- 6:27Introducing the secure code game
- 8:57How the game works
- 11:27Impact on the Canadian startup
- 13:15University adoption and teaching
- 13:58Why gamification works
- 16:27Call to action and contributions
- 17:53Real-world scenarios in the game
- 18:37GitHub Security Lab mission
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