Developer Security Proficiency: Accelerating Vulnerability Remediation with Integrated AST and Secure Developer Upskilling

The development environment is increasingly complex, and detecting vulnerabilities is only half the battle. True Secure by Design requires closing the loop, ensuring that security insights translate directly into fast, effective fixes and future prevention.

Join experts Steven Zimmerman from Black Duck and Eric Johnson from Secure Code Warrior to learn how to move beyond static reports and integrate security into every stage of the developer workflow. We will explore how pairing Black Duck's advanced vulnerability detection with Secure Code Warrior's Learning and Developer Risk Management platform accelerates remediation and hardens your applications.

What you will learn:

• Techniques for leveraging hands-on learning and skills verification to build a proactive DevSecOps culture where developers instinctively write more secure code.
• Strategies for reducing both vulnerabilities from the very start and mean-time-to-remediate (MTTR) by delivering contextual and relevant language (and applicable framework) learning by doing activities enabling developers to improve their secure code writing skills.
• Practical steps for building a program (spanning 1 year or multi-year) that ensures security expertise keeps pace with modern development practices,including adoption of security best practices to start and learning paths to improve secure coding skills over time, as well as managing organization risk at the code committer level by providing insights and governance at code commit, and insights on agentic AI and MCP protocols usage.