SafeStack

RATING:

4.7

(10)
Overview

About SafeStack

Our goal is to get your entire development team thinking about security as they build applications, not when it’s too late. We believe that educating all aspects of your team is key: developers, testers, analysts and architects can all have an impact on the quality and security of an application. Our program is designed to give everyone the knowledge they need in order to take actionable steps.

SafeStack Pricing

Annual subscription pricing on a per learner, per year basis.

Starting price: 

$300.00 per year

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

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SafeStack Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

5

Customer Support

5

Value for money

5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for SafeStack

10 Reviews

Cairo

Computer Software, 201-500 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

Great content

PROS

SafeStack provides good quality content, for both standard security awareness and specialised secure development learning. The feedback we received from our Engineers was that they were engaged and enjoyed the interactive quality of the training exercises. All of our users enjoyed the security awareness training, particularly the cute characters. As the one responsible for security training and awareness at my organisation, I really loved that the security awareness training started off with a module on risk - it's not something most security training covers but it's foundational and this was one of the key reasons we chose SafeStack as our platform.

CONS

We would love the option to create "groups" within the users and to assign specific courses with due dates to groups / users. This will allow us to better manage our learning on an ongoing basis, as it's a little time consuming at the moment to check who has completed what and there was some confusion from our users about what specifically they needed to complete. We have passed this feedback to our account manager and have been kept in the loop on upcoming changes that will remedy this issue.

Reason for choosing SafeStack

The price point, and the ability to use the one platform for security awareness, data privacy and secure code training. We also prefer to partner with smaller organisations who we can work with collaboratively to optimise results for both of our organisations.

Oleg

Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Very good and effective continuous security training platform for Dev Teams

I would recommend it to at least try for any dev team. It is very helpful in establishing security as ongoing practice and rise awareness within a team.

PROS

Easy to use and deploy. Frequent topics updated relevant info for development team.

CONS

There are no major issues. The only wish would be over the reporting tool to get updates on team progress and track least engaged members.

Reason for choosing SafeStack

It is easier for developers to engage and they don't need to spend much time on it, just 15min during the break or at the end of the day is enough.

Clare

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2022

Helping us stay on top of training our team

As someone doing the modules but also co-ordinating the team to do this training it's been a smooth experience. The team at Safestack are great and really helpful.

PROS

I like how easy it is to assign modules to our team and track their progress.

CONS

Not much to say here, I think it's a good product and not overly complicated.

Reason for choosing SafeStack

It was great to have an NZ based company and training.

Chantelle

Financial Services, 201-500 employees

Used less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2021

Secure Developer Training Review

Overall we've had a great experience. The product/content is great, the labs are awesome (our favourite part). Anytime we've come across an issue support has been really helpful and easy to deal with.

PROS

The labs are awesome - we've had really good feedback on these. We haven't seen many training courses that provide such valuable, hands on labs. Course topics are very relevant to our developers and the content isn't as dry as other courses we've seen. The training isn't language specific, but focuses more on concepts and therefore all our team can benefit from this training. Feedback from support and team is also awesome, very responsive and great to deal with.

CONS

Would love SSO implementation Improved reporting on a per course basis would be useful (not just per user basis) We were hoping for video content with the unicorn! The labs reference some material from previous labs without advising this. If labs are not done in succession users need to re-do labs as they don't remember things and didn't record them down. Our users found this frustrating.

Reasons for switching to SafeStack

Secure code warrior was more theoretical knowledge and language specific. We found that a few of the languages our teams use weren't supported and the ones that were had a limited question base. As the product evolves it may become more valuable. However the labs from safestack training are much more practical and better at helping developers understand the concepts. As well as the knowledge and concepts, it's training developers how to think like attackers. If developers are learning how to break things, they'll subsequently learn how they can fix things. And they enjoy doing the labs, it's the right amount of challenge and hits.

Julian

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Wise and thoughtful training for your developers

We're attempting to upskill a lot of developers to develop secure microservices, so it's a godsend being able to send people to the training to explain why we ask for some of the things that we do. Security is a lonely job sometimes, and it's nice to know that you can fall back on learning resources like this.

PROS

The thing that makes SafeStack unique is the content. The team have been played on the red and blue teams, and it shows. They don't just say "upgrade your dependencies because it's more secure that way" they walk you through the landscape and explain why. I also love the labs: actually finding the vulnerabilities in the labs makes your feel like a security guru. I won't confess just how much time I spent going down rabbit holes.

CONS

One of its strengths is presently a weakness: because it's so inclusive and doesn't attempt to gatekeep, some of the lectures start off a little slow. I'd love a way to make an intro course as optional or 101 level, and perhaps allow more experienced developers to zoom ahead. They have said that there's a learning pathway feature coming that you can customise.

Matt

Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Great product, great company

PROS

As a business who has embarked on developing inhouse software to support our business operations safe stack has served several benefits. It has given our dev team easy to digest training, awareness and skills of safe coding practice, has given our exec team confidence that we are coding in safe ways to protect our business and customer data, has given our customers confidence that our software will protect them. The onboarding process was so easy to follow and safe stack have adopted good ol fashioned customer service not just to onboard but to provide ongoing support. The platform itself is extremely easy to use with great tracking of where you are in your training. Feedback from the team has been great with everyone from our senior dev to myself (physio by trade with no IT background) finding the training useful.

CONS

No cons from me bar the fact that purple is not my favourite colour :)

Reason for choosing SafeStack

Highly recommended from a member of our IT advisory board

Anonymous

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

A solid introduction to security concepts

PROS

The videos are easy to follow. The interactive challenges are just the right difficulty.

CONS

No major issues. With the new UI if you rewatch a video it sets the course back to showing as not completed. This could well be what many people prefer.

Ian

Facilities Services, 2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2021

Good Awareness Training

We need our staff to be security aware due to our domain and we need to be able to show our auditors that our staff have undertaking training. Having Safe Stacks tool provides a user friendly why of achieving this.

PROS

Safe Stacks offering is approachable and this means that everyone in the company can use the training. We have staff in multiple places, with a wide range of It and security skills. The training provides an easy one stop solution.

CONS

Given the wide level of knowledge about IT and security the training is never going to be the right level for every one. For developers like myself there are times when more technical content would be good.

Reason for choosing SafeStack

Combination of the advantage in being online, the people behind the product, and the price. Really as an offering it is hard to beat.

Phil

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

SafeStack Secure Development Training

PROS

With so many of our company's customers expecting a high standard of security and compliance, SafeStack's content ensures my team are trained in best practice at every level from junior through to senior software contributors.

CONS

The team administrator features are very simple, which can be good but might mean places with higher staff counts don't have the degree of detail they might otherwise have wanted.

Rob

Security and Investigations, 51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

The best content

PROS

Sometimes security training is a matter of ticking a box, but with Safestack you genuinely feel like you're levelling up your teams skills, which puts you in the best place to defend from real attacks, no matter what's "on paper"

CONS

I don't have anything negative to say...

10 Reviews