Avatao

Score8.7 out of 10

9 Reviews and Ratings

What is Avatao?

Avatao’s security training goes beyond simple tutorials and videos offering an interactive job-relevant learning experience to developer teams, security champions, pentesters, security analysts and DevOps teams.

Avatao's approach to secure coding training

The Avatao platform immerses developers in high-profile cases and provides them with real, in-depth experience with challenging security breaches. Engineers learn to hack and patch the bugs themselves. The vendor states that in this way, Avatao equips software engineering teams with a security mindset that increases their capability to reduce risks and react to known vulnerabilities faster, and that this in turn increases the security capability of a company to ship high-quality products.

Topics

With 600+ challenges and tutorials in 10+ languages, the platform covers a range of security topics across the security stack from OWASP Top 10 to DevSecOps and Cryptography.

Learn more: https://avatao.com/topics-we-cover/

Categories & Use Cases

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Darren Mihalic View profile

Business Development Manager at Torqx Capital Partners (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

It gives a lot of liberty to developers to do things according to their needs and requirements to check whether it is a good approach or not.
I am using this tool for developing software and it has been a great platform for us in doing work especially.
It is compiled of all the best tools and provides a real time exercises to check codes easily.
Easy to use and user-friendly.

Cons

[I feel] it needs to be more functional while integrating with other platforms. Not the biggest drawback but there is a need to add more languages to it like PHP, Go, and Scala which is also very much developed and used in the organization.
[I believe] the support team needs to be more active and responsive while dealing with the customers.

Most Important Features

Customization of options.
Dashboard is full of advanced functionalities.
Gamification.

Return on Investment

It has been proved as a big find for me and my organization as well. It reduces my work and saves my time a lot which I in the past used to do by myself.
I like the most that it allows me to touch real code, modify it according to the needs of my own and then compile all of that code into working applications. These exercises helping me a lot that I can convert multiple job rules so that service can be an integral part of a solid security program in development.

Alternatives Considered

Udemy for Business

Other Software Used

Front, Constant Contact, ClickUp

Zoltan Balazs View profile

Head of Vulnerability Research Lab in Engineering at CUJO AI (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

Excellent option for remote security training.
Real-life, hands-on challenges
The website is very responsive and easy to use

Cons

Not available for personal use anymore

Return on Investment

Better results on CTF events
It is a great option for remote security training
Focus on real-life challenges

Alternatives Considered

Udemy for Business

Other Software Used

Oracle Database, Qualys Cloud Platform (formerly Qualysguard)

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

Interactive tutorials that make learning feel effortless and fun.
Wide range of topics covered.
Challenges are sufficently difficult and therefore exciting to solve.
If you get stuck, asking for help is easy and you are provided with just enough information to get going again.

Cons

Once your trial expires, you cannot do any tutorials or challenges.

Return on Investment

I apply the knowledge gained on the Avatao platform every day, as I ensure that our systems are secure.

Other Software Used

IntelliJ IDEA, Amazon Web Services, Datadog

Verified User

Professional in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

intuitive user interface (for both content creators and end users)
support for wide range of software security topics
reliable cloud backend
safe environment for learning about and experimenting with software vulnerabilities

Cons

recent change in user interface (takes a bit of getting used to if one is familiar with the old interface)

Return on Investment

streamline deployment of security exercises
simplify evaluation of progress

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

Hands-on exercises. We are far from any type of simulation or static content; Avatao provides real applications to train with and focuses both on exploitation and code fixing.
It is a great option for remote security training.
The modules represent real-life issues, which is an advantage.

Cons

They could implement Ruby in the exercises.

Return on Investment

Using the platform for us was a first step in teaching secure code best practices on a large scale.
Implementing training increases overall security within the company.
Our security culture evolves by doing trainings on a regular basis.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Atom, WordPress

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