Top 4 Ways To Increase Completion Rates for Secure Coding Training

Originally posted: https://www.hackedu.com/blog/top-4-ways-to-increase-completion-rates-for-secure-coding-training

It’s indisputable: Secure Coding Training is effective in reducing vulnerabilities in code. That’s why more and more companies are turning to this training to help speed up software deployment and prevent vulnerabilities. However, training can only be effective if the trainees actually take and complete the training, and this is just as much the case for Secure Coding Training as any other type. All the potential benefits of training become diminished if no one wants to complete it — or even start it, as is sometimes the case if accessing the training portal is a struggle.

Security team leaders have told us that a successful roll-out of Secure Coding Training software reflects positively on the team overseeing the operation, and one of the main metrics by which they’re measured is completion rate. So how do you get developers to not only log in, but take and complete their training, which ultimately helps reduce vulnerabilities in your code?

The insights we’ve gained from working with hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of developers can be distilled into the following list of approaches:

1. Accountability