AppSecEngineer™ Certified Secure Code Reviewer

• Learn how attackers approach code review
  
• Understand codebase anatomy and system decomposition
  
• Identify review hotspots, sensitive flows, and entry points

• Map out application components and trust boundaries directly from code
  
• Decide review scope based on functionality, risk, and surface area
  
• Extract user flows and business logic from real codebases

• Learn to find vulnerabilities by reading code, not just running tools
  
• Understand security flaws in authentication, authorization, data handling, and storage
  
• Recognize language-specific security pitfalls and framework misuses
• Learn to use tools to automate finding insecure patterns or data flow capture

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• Perform manual secure code review in real-world code
  
• Identify injection points, broken auth, insecure crypto, and deserialization bugs
  
• Distinguish noise from critical issues

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• Learn to prioritize findings based on impact and likelihood
  
• Translate technical flaws into actionable reports
  
• Communicate with developers without creating friction

• Classify findings as critical, high, medium, low, or informational
  
• Write developer-facing remediation guidance
  
• Create executive summaries focused on risk and business context

• Apply everything learned to a real project
  
• Practice reviewing live code without prior preparation
  
• Collaboratively find real bugs, not toy examples

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• End-to-end secure code review of a real-world repo
  
• Team-based review workflow under time constraints
  
• Final report generation and findings presentation