Learn to Code Securely and Protect Applications from Attacks
Insecure code is a major threat to businesses, developers, and users. At Secureweb, we provide a comprehensive Secure Coding Formation built on what we actually see during our penetration tests — critical vulnerabilities we have found, reported and helped fix in real applications for companies in Morocco and abroad. You do not learn from a generic checklist. You learn from the bugs that were live in production last year.
Taught by Penetration Testers, Not Only by Trainers
Our team spends its working weeks doing security assessments: breaking into web applications, APIs and internal platforms with the client’s permission, writing up what we found, and then sitting with the developers to fix it. That work covers Moroccan businesses — e-commerce, healthcare, banking, SaaS and public-facing platforms — as well as international clients.
That experience is the whole point of this formation. Every module answers three questions in order: how the vulnerability is actually exploited, what the fix looks like in code, and how to verify the fix really holds. All client examples are anonymised — we never share names, data or anything that could identify an application.
Why Choose Our Secure Coding Formation?
- Real pentest findings: anonymised cases from our own engagements, with the exact fix that closed them.
- Hands-on labs: you get the vulnerable code, exploit it yourself, then patch it and re-test.
- Security layers explained: not just what to implement, but why each layer exists and what it catches when another one fails.
- AI-generated code review: how to audit and harden the code your AI assistant writes for you.
- Comprehensive modules: XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF, LFI, IDOR and more.
- Expert consultation: bring your own code or architecture question to our security engineers.
- Interactive live sessions and a supportive community that keeps helping you after the session ends.
- Flexible learning: online sessions accessible anytime, anywhere.
- Certificate of completion: showcase your skills with an official certificate.
Real Vulnerabilities From Real Penetration Tests
These are the flaw patterns we keep finding in production applications during assessments. In the formation, each one is presented as a case: the vulnerable code, how we exploited it, the business impact, and the patch that fixed it.
- Broken access control (IDOR) — an endpoint trusts an ID sent by the client, so changing a number in the URL returns another customer’s record. Fix: authorise on the server against the session owner, never on the identifier alone.
- SQL injection in a “safe-looking” query — the developer used a prepared statement everywhere except one sort or search parameter. Fix: parameterise everything, and allow-list column names that cannot be bound.
- Stored XSS through a profile or comment field — input is sanitised on display in one template and not in another. Fix: encode on output, per context, plus a Content Security Policy as a second line.
- Secrets committed to the repository — API keys, database passwords and tokens sitting in the source tree or in a public JavaScript bundle. Fix: move to environment variables or a secret manager, then rotate the exposed credentials.
- File upload turned into remote code execution — extension is checked, content type is not, and the upload folder is executable. Fix: validate content, rename files, and store them outside the web root.
- Authentication and session weaknesses — password reset tokens that do not expire, no rate limiting on login, sessions that survive a password change. Fix: short-lived single-use tokens, throttling, and full session invalidation.
The Security Layers — and Why Each One Matters
No single control stops every attack. Defence in depth means stacking layers so that when one fails, the next one still limits the damage. We walk through each layer, what it actually protects against, and what it does not cover — because assuming a firewall handles application bugs is how breaches happen.
- Secure design — deciding who is allowed to do what before writing code. Catches whole classes of access-control bugs that no scanner will find later.
- Input validation and output encoding — the layer that stops injection at the point where untrusted data enters or leaves your application.
- Authentication and authorisation — proving who the user is, then checking on every request what that user may touch.
- Secrets and configuration management — keeping keys out of code, disabling debug modes, and shipping safe defaults to production.
- Dependency and supply-chain hygiene — most applications are mostly other people’s code; knowing what you ship and patching it is a layer of its own.
- Browser-side hardening — Content Security Policy, secure cookies and security headers that reduce the impact of a bug you missed.
- Infrastructure and WAF — buys you time against known attacks, but never replaces a fix in the code.
- Logging, monitoring and response — the layer that tells you an attack happened at all, and lets you reconstruct what was reached.
- Testing and retesting — automated scans in the pipeline plus manual review, then verifying the fix instead of trusting it.
Hands-On Labs: Break the Code, Then Fix It
Reading about a vulnerability is not the same as seeing it work. Each top vulnerability comes with a lab containing deliberately vulnerable code that you can interact with directly.
- Exploit it — run the attack yourself and watch what an attacker gets out of it.
- Find the root cause — trace the flaw back to the exact line, not just the symptom.
- Patch it — write the fix, with a review of the common wrong fixes that only look secure.
- Re-test — confirm the exploit no longer works and nothing else broke.
Securing AI-Generated Code
We have tested a number of applications built largely with AI assistants — “vibe-coded” projects shipped fast, with code the team never fully reviewed. The functionality usually works. The security assumptions are usually missing: authorisation checks left out, secrets hardcoded, validation applied on the front end only.
Because we have assessed these applications, this formation includes a practical module on working safely with AI-written code:
- The security gaps AI assistants repeatedly produce, and where to look first.
- A review checklist for AI-generated code before it reaches production.
- How to prompt for security — asking for the threat model, the authorisation check and the validation explicitly, instead of hoping for them.
- How to verify what the assistant claims it did, including generated dependencies and configuration.
- Where a human security review is still required, no matter how good the output looks.
What You Will Learn
- Secure Coding Fundamentals
- Identifying insecure code patterns
- Secure input validation and output encoding
- Common Vulnerabilities and Fixes
- XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
- SQL Injection
- CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
- File Inclusion Attacks (LFI & RFI)
- Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR)
- Best Practices for Secure Development
- Secure coding standards (OWASP Top 10)
- Using secure frameworks and libraries
- Building the security layers into your stack, one by one
- Reviewing AI-Generated Code
- Auditing what an AI assistant wrote before shipping it
- Prompting for secure output and verifying the result
- Testing and Fixing Vulnerabilities
- Manual testing
- Automation tools for secure coding
- Retesting to confirm a fix actually holds
More Than a Course: Consultation, Community and Live Sessions
- Expert consultation — bring a real problem from your own project and get an answer from a security engineer who tests applications for a living. See also our cybersecurity consulting.
- Interactive live sessions — walkthroughs and Q&A where you can ask about your own code, not only the lab code.
- A supportive community — a place to ask questions, share findings and keep learning with other developers and security people after the session ends.
- Practical follow-up — want your live application checked as well? Start with our free website security scan.
Who Can Join?
- Web Developers
- Security Enthusiasts
- IT Professionals
- Students and Beginners
No prior cybersecurity experience is needed!
Enroll in the Secure Coding Formation
Registration for the Secure Coding Formation is handled on taghra.com — create your account there to reserve your place, get the labs and join the live sessions.
Can You Spot a Phishing Email?
Before you enroll, take our free cybersecurity awareness test to see where you stand. Choose the Employee Awareness track to test phishing reflexes, password habits and data handling, or the Secure Coding track to test whether your developers can spot security vulnerabilities in real code. You get an instant score and an explanation for every answer.
