Reviews
"Things were thoroughly explained if needed be. There were good discussions going around."
February 2025, On-site
"The lecturer was very attentive, knowledgeable, able to keep the interest of the audience and get engagement form the participants"
February 2025, On-site
"The hands-on exercises means we got real experience in how a hacker works."
February 2025, On-site
"Introduction with relevant background information to be able to handle the exercises and understand the principles was excellent."
February 2025, On-site
"Professionalism of the trainer, relevance of the subject to the work I do."
February 2025, Online
"Got some insights how attackers do work and how I can make their life harder."
February 2025, Online
"The hands-on parts helped me to realize the concreteness of the security issues"
February 2025, Online
"The material is supported by a nice exercise environment"
February 2025, Online
"The explanation of the vulnerabilities and the trainer!"
February 2025, Online
"The build environment was really good"
February 2025, Online
"I liked the equipment. Everything was available right away, even tools I wouldn't be able to access"
February 2025, Online
"We tried every possible aspects of AI, how they work in reality, and what can we achieve with it."
February 2025, Online
"I really liked that our trainers showcased parts of the exercises."
February 2025, Online
"The trainer can answer almost all of the questions."
February 2025, On-site
"It was nice to hear the general backgrounds in the first day. It was helpful to revisit the previous day key points the next day."
February 2025, On-site
"It was really interactive, and the audience was actively involved."
February 2025, On-site
"It was showing some interesting previous experiments and occasions which brought closer the topic to me"
February 2025, On-site
"It was relevant to my current project and gave a solid starting point in understanding the considerations behind chip security."
February 2025, On-site
"Real expertise and industry experience. Strong, real knowledge of the subject and not just presenting the slides."
February 2025, On-site
"I really liked the vibe of the course. Both tutors were friendly and supportive."
February 2025, Online
"I especially liked the hands-on approach, with practical coding exercises and applications that made complex AI concepts easy to understand."
February 2025, Online
"The exercises. We tried a lot things, and like this, its easier to learn, and understand."
February 2025, Online
"Trainer was very knowledgeable and the information was readily applicable to my job role."
February 2025, Online
"Brilliant tutor. Attentive, engaging, up to date material, great practical examples."
February 2025, Online
"Trainer was an experienced practitioner and was capable of explaining the theoretical aspects of AI security and real life implementations."
February 2025, Online
"Trainer is engaging and providing a lots link to the real life example or even discussing related news."
February 2025, Online
"The practical lab sessions were particularly valuable, providing hands-on experience that reinforced the concepts covered."
February 2025, Online
"The course was highly informative and well-structured, with comprehensive materials that supported the learning experience."
February 2025, Online
"The tutor demonstrated strong expertise, effectively explaining key concepts and ensuring a smooth learning process. "
February 2025, Online
"Trainer was completely well prepared. I liked the prepared enviroment, like the VM machine and the LAB guide."
February 2025, Online
"A lot of material which was explained well, with theory and practice both included."
February 2025, Online
"Well planned and informative."
December 2024, Virtual
"Definitely exercises and positive attitude of the leader. Rust is also a nice addition."
December 2024, Virtual
"Good pacing, no fluff - only valuable info"
December 2024, Virtual
"The exercises allow me to have hands-on practices and understand slides better."
December 2024, Virtual
"Warming-up session is supper good, It interested me and attracted me to listen to the rest of the class."
December 2024, Virtual
"Presenter seemed very knowledgeable and material was good."
December 2024, Virtual
"I like the interesting and engaging way the course was conducted the most."
December 2024, Virtual
"Interesting real life stories and examples of insecure coding"
December 2024, Virtual
"Way of trainer's teaching and explanation skill"
December 2024, Virtual
"I especially liked the combination of theory and practical exercises."
December 2024, Virtual
"The group being divided into smaller teams for hands-on learning was very effective."
December 2024, Virtual
"I appreciated the examples and interesting facts from around the world."
December 2024, Virtual
"Closely related to work."
December 2024, Virtual
"Very well organized. Trainers very knowledgeable. Good examples."
November 2024, Virtual
"I love how you can see our environments and help us anytime we need it."
November 2024, Virtual
"when we did the exercises, it explained all the talking in just a few minutes and a few keystrokes."
November 2024, Virtual
"Having exercises with real code examples makes for a more fun and interactive course, I like the setup a lot!"
June 2024, Virtual
"The examples are realistic or reality-anchored, if simplified"
June 2024, Virtual
"The course content is well structured and well planned"
June 2024, Virtual
"Discussions were really good whenever is started something. Not filled with unnecessary information"
June 2024, Virtual
"It was the best course I have ever attended, ever."
June 2024, Virtual
"More courses like these, great trainers, great content, very interesting"
June 2024, Virtual
"Setting the context and the story behind each case and then showing the issue step by step"
June 2024, Virtual
"The exercise are well designed and very informative. The trainer is very helpful and can offer immediate online help."
June 2024, Virtual
"The trainer was extremely helpful. I enjoyed the practical exercises."
April 2024, Virtual
"I like how clearly the content was presented."
April 2024, Virtual
"Loved having practical exercises and an environment to do to them in."
April 2024, Virtual
"Very well-prepared exercise environment and good with breakout rooms."
April 2024, Virtual
"Trainer was very engaged into the process and did really well. Also liked the practical part on vms, and practical use cases."
November 2023, Virtual
"I liked the presenter's ethos:) He was well spoken and knowledgeable about the topic. He asked a lot of questions from the audience which kept us engaged."
October 2023, Virtual
"The presenter was inclusive, involving the online audience as well. They explained various techniques for assessing, engaging, and managing our audience and how we can build our credible image."
October 2023, Virtual
"I liked the trainer's tricks to keep our attention during the course. The training was interactive, and thinking about different issues together was inspiring."
October 2023, Virtual
"As a psychologist, I found the training material useful, and now I want to read through my notes from the university and complete them with your content. :-)"
October 2023, Virtual
"I especially liked that my useful tools where presented that could be used by most people. Additionally, I liked the wide range of presented tools."
October 2023, Virtual
"Thank you very much for the opportunity to participate on this AI Fundamentals course and special thanks to our mentors, they were really great!"
October 2023, Virtual
"It was well-organized. The set up, the platform was nice, also the training-material. Trainers kept the time-frame, there were enough brakes."
September 2023, Virtual
"I enjoyed the practical parts of the course, especially learning about the AI tools."
September 2023, Virtual
"I liked that the course also covered areas that I am less familiar with."
September 2023, Virtual
"Well thought through structure, knowledgeable trainers. Well within schedule, keeping the timeline."
September 2023, Virtual
"Very friendly facilitators, slides are great and instructive for reading later."
September 2023, Virtual
"I gained some new insights and thought more structurally about how and what I prompt."
September 2023, Virtual
"I was inspired to finally get GPT Plus, the examples were nice, and I liked the amount and duration of breaks."
September 2023, Virtual
"The trainer was really good, and confident, well prepared for each day."
September 2023, Virtual
"As someone who has a special interest in psychology and how people work, it was a fun course."
August 2023, Virtual
"I can't stress how important courses like this are in Hungary's cultural climate, where mental literacy is still somewhat of a fringe topic."
August 2023, Virtual
"Interesting topics and information. The speakers/trainers were very good."
July 2023, Virtual
"I enjoyed prompt engineering the most, but I also liked the comparison of Copilot, Tabnine and Code whisperer, and that I could try these tools."
July 2023, Virtual
"It was good to see that you can use chatGPT for debugging as well. The trainers were very helpful."
July 2023, Virtual
"Very knowledgeable and pedagogical teacher, easy to understand the material!"
June 2023, Virtual
"The trainer is extremely polite and listens to our opinions."
June 2023, Virtual
"Well managed within time, explaining the use cases clearly with practicals."
June 2023, Virtual
"Trainers were really skilled and precise. Also gave lot of context. I really appreciate all the gadget shown. VMs where really cool so instructor can follow each one directly."
May 2023, Virtual
"Great teacher! Keeping a good spirit for such a long time is impressive. Also answering and being attentive to all questions."
May 2023, Virtual
"It was well organized and had a great material selection. All the explanations were very detailed leaving no question unanswered."
May 2023, Virtual
"Well balanced layout, good combination of real life examples, practical excercises and theory."
May 2023, Virtual
"Engagement of trainers, useful information, interesting hacking exercises :)."
March 2023, Virtual
"I really liked that the course was so interactive. The teachers did a very good job."
March 2023, Virtual
"The trainer has a wealth of experience in the area that the course covers. It has proved helpful in providing actual examples."
January 2023, On-site
"The trainer has good knowledge of all the topics and would happily chat about related issues or provide more information."
January 2023, On-site
"I like the balanced mix of presentations, exercises and anecdotes."
January 2023, Virtual
"The course is very informative and gave us great insight into advanced concepts of C/C++. I thoroughly enjoyed this."
January 2023, Virtual
"It's not theory or not just theory that we learned, but a lot of practical things."
January 2023, Virtual
"Nice presentation and coordination among instructors. Also the instructor was very active and was patient enough to listen to the queries of the participants."
November 2022, Virtual
"The aspect of being the "attacker" or "hacker" and trying to understand the perspective of the attacker was exciting."
November 2022, Virtual
"I very much liked the hands on exercises, and the explanation behind them."
November 2022, Virtual
"Theoretical explanations were very clear, with code snippets and "spot the bug!" parts."
November 2022, Virtual
"Breakout sessions were very practical and very well prepared. They were simple and short enough to demonstrate the important point."
November 2022, Virtual
"The training arrangements were beyond expectations. The daily recap helped to cover the gap in knowledge from the previous day."
November 2022, Virtual
"I consider myself a relatively experienced C/C++ developer, yet I learned quite many new things :)"
November 2022, Virtual
"The practical exercises are very good. The breakout sessions make the course more dynamic."
November 2022, Virtual
"It was a nice change of pace to get to solve some exercises instead of mostly listening, made it easier to learn the concepts."
November 2022, Virtual
"Liked the detailed walkthroughs of different attacks and the references and examples from real world attacks."
November 2022, Virtual
"The breakout sessions were really interactive - I liked having the small group and our leader was really helpful!"
November 2022, Virtual
"I'm not a big fan of theory but the way that you all guys present that is really great."
November 2022, Virtual
"The training material was updated with the latests technologies. Very clear subjects on different aspects of web security..."
November 2022, Virtual
"Most interesting course ever :-) For the breakout room it was the hands-on training that was the best."
October 2022, Virtual
"The comics made it easier to digest some of the information so that was fun."
October 2022, Virtual
"Well prepared cases, well organized training environment, experienced trainers."
October 2022, Virtual
"The training environment is super easy to use and great."
October 2022, Virtual
"Trainer has deep knowledge and communicates very well."
October 2022, Virtual
"Any time a question or comment was raised, the instructor was very attentive, respectful, and appreciative. This created a very professional and welcoming atmosphere; I appreciate that."
September 2022, Virtual
"The examples and exercises were very interesting. Good mix of theory and labs."
September 2022, Virtual
"Detailed insight into the topics. In most cases everything was explained in detail from the ground up."
September 2022, Virtual
"I found that the trainer's communication skills and professionalism were amazing."
September 2022, Virtual
"We got clear explanation of the exercises and also good organization."
September 2022, Virtual
"The exercises we did on VMs were very practical."
September 2022, Virtual
"Hands-on exercises, which make learning something easier than just listening to a presenter."
September 2022, Virtual
"Very interesting topics. Also interesting to hear about real-life examples where different types of attacks have been used."
September 2022, Virtual
"Some of the exercises illustrated the topic really well. The walkthrough performed by the breakout leader was excellent."
September 2022, Virtual
"Very organized and nicely structured. The breakout sessions were very useful and very nicely set up."
September 2022, Virtual
"The trainer really helped individually if someone needed more help/assistance in doing exercises."
September 2022, Virtual
"Lots of knowledge presented in an easy way."
September 2022, Virtual
"It was very interesting, and I loved learning how to hack and defend against it."
August 2022, Virtual
"I thought it was very interesting to learn about security while coding as I was not previously exposed to that."
August 2022, Virtual
"Good coverage of topics and exercises to try hands on to the problems. Explanation and course material is very good."
August 2022, Virtual
"Hands on feeling of "hacking" was really cool - I would play this if it was a video game."
August 2022, Virtual
"I had basically no idea how hackers worked. It was very interesting to see some approaches used."
August 2022, Virtual
"I liked the frequent exercises to keep me engaged, as well as the real-life vulnerability scenarios."
August 2022, Virtual
"It's a great insight to the vulnerability of simple coding."
August 2022, Virtual
"There are a lot of concepts that can be applied right away to my working environment. Everything was also presented in a great way."
August 2022, Virtual
"Very interactive. Good response from the course leader on questions."
July 2022, Virtual
"Trainer is technically very competent. Material was of high quality."
July 2022, Virtual
"Good content and relevant hands on exercises. The hands on exercises are really good to get to know the basics."
July 2022, Virtual
"I really liked the virtual environment."
July 2022, Virtual
"Trainers were really well prepared, they never had to think on the answer. Also there was a lot of really well prepared exercises. Awesome!"
July 2022, Virtual
"It opened my eyes to how a simple error like a buffer overflow can open the doors to malicious hacking."
July 2022, Virtual
"Examples were great! Raised awareness of the security vulnerabilities.. now I am scared."
July 2022, Virtual
"I learned a lot of how some basic bugs I often see in code can result in security vulnerabilities. I previously had no idea how hackers took control of systems. "
July 2022, Virtual
"I thought the instructor was excellent and entertaining. He was enthusiastic for the material and gave a lot of good concrete examples. He encouraged the students to participate. "
July 2022, Virtual
"I got a much better understanding of how hacks work, and how to prevent them."
July 2022, Virtual
"The VM and exercises were great. The instructors were very willing to take time to answer questions and go into more detail when requested."
July 2022, Virtual
"It was full of very interesting examples, taken from life."
June 2022, Virtual
"I have gained much knowledge in the different ways a hacker can attack a system. This was very unclear to me before this course."
June 2022, Virtual
"I enjoyed the real life examples and case studies and the mix of theory and practical exercises."
June 2022, Virtual
"Mixed session, presentation divided by practical usage. Well working environment provided for exercises."
June 2022, Virtual
"Very interesting topics, great real-world examples from actual security issues found in products."
June 2022, Virtual
"The trainers were very knowledgeable."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"The virtual machines provided for the training were set up very good and made the exercises easy to follow."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"Tutorials on exploiting vulnerabilities were very interesting."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"In depth breakout room sessions with detailed explanation for each exercise."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"The course opened my eyes to vulnerabilities that are quite commonly available."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"Very good quality."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"Material was diverse with enough interesting examples that relate to our daily work, also the breakout rooms and exercises were engaging and helpful."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"It has real live examples, and the training session were very illustrative."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"Very much enjoyed the breakout sessions! The use cases were very interesting."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"Nice mix of lecture and hands on exercises with smaller group discussions."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"It showed how I need to think a little carefully with everything that I do, to be aware of possible issues."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"Excellent instructors; Interesting topic."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"The Virtual Machine setup makes the hands-on exercise a breeze."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"Covered many interesting areas as well as case studies to showcase the importance of the material."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"I enjoyed the hands-on approach in the breakout rooms, it was good to be able to apply the skills/ideas learned about during the course."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"Changed my mindset to think in the hacker's way and hardened my code to prevent hacking."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"The exercises and the sessions in the private room were awesome."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"The instructors were very knowledgeable and professional."
June 2022, Virtual, USA
"Cool hacking examples and deep dive into technical explanation."
May 2022, Virtual
"I liked the excersises with memory manipulation. It was fun to do something simple yet satisfying."
May 2022, Virtual
"Excellent course organization."
May 2022, Virtual
"Interesting topics and presentation, which could be useful after the training."
May 2022, Virtual
"The exercises are really interesting."
May 2022, Virtual
"Real-life examples and possibility to personally try out many exploitable code snippets."
May 2022, Virtual
"Many interesting facts about the security and exploits."
May 2022, Virtual
"Trainers really have passion for the topic."
May 2022, Virtual
"I liked to see different ways attacks can be made to help thinking about how and why to defend against them."
May 2022, Virtual
"Trainers are clearly experts in these topics and they bring real world stories and examples for each of them."
May 2022, Virtual, India
"The training exercise and infrastructure was very well managed."
May 2022, Virtual, India
"Trainers have shared their vast knowledge on different topics and helped everyone during exercise time."
May 2022, Virtual, India
"The Remediations will be especially helpful in my day to day job role."
May 2022, Virtual, India
"Very motivated trainer, great explanations. I liked that the trainer encouraged people to participate, but didn't make it mandatory."
May 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"Practical exercises, fun and engaging presentation of the material."
May 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"One of the best trainings I attended in my 20 years professional experience."
May 2022, Virtual
"It gave totally new information for, something that I wasn't aware at all. Mostly I mean how registers on the processor can be used to leak information."
May 2022, Virtual
"I liked the practical exercises and the fact that the trainer could see directly our work and help us so easily."
May 2022, Virtual
"The trainer asked us first to think about the solution, instead of just telling us straight away."
May 2022, Virtual
"Exercises were really good."
January 2022, Virtual
"I've learnt a lot new which I can use for my work."
January 2022, Virtual
"I liked the online exercise in cloud based virtual machines."
January 2022, Virtual
"Good, in-depth examples."
January 2022, Virtual
"I liked the good training environment."
January 2022, Virtual
"I appreciate that each trainee could use their own virtual machine to practice."
January 2022, Virtual
"I liked the environment and the way how it was explained."
January 2022, Virtual
"I liked that every chapter had an exercise."
January 2022, Virtual
"Practical exercises were insightful and well prepared. Trainer walked us through the more tricky parts, and adapted to our skill level."
January 2022, Virtual
"The training exercises were my favorite part."
January 2022, Virtual
"The concepts explained in the course make me aware of C/C++ security problems that I never thought of. I also understand the concepts of stack over flow and its dangers."
January 2022, Virtual
"Even for topics which I seemed to know very well, there have been additional aspects presented in a very interesting way."
January 2022, Virtual
"Good source code examples and exercises. Way of presentation and speed very well adjusted to our state of knowledge. Questions were very well answered."
January 2022, Virtual
"Our trainer had focused on individual needs and problems, and ensured that all of our questions were fully answered."
January 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"The course is structured to provide enough hands-on activity as well as theory work."
January 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"I liked that theory was followed by practical exercices."
January 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"I liked all the stories about the trainer's experience in security. It adds a nice pratical view to the training."
January 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"I liked the way the course was organised, especially exercise and examples provided by the trainer."
January 2022, Virtual, India
"I appreciated the patience of the trainer: he made sure that everyone completed the exercise and understood the particular topic."
January 2022, Virtual, India
"I recommend the content of the course and the way it is presented to the audience."
January 2022, Virtual, India
"Hands-on with the course was really helpful."
January 2022, Virtual, India
"Interactive exercices."
January 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"I liked the energy of the trainer."
January 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"The exercise sessions by groups were very fun and encouraging to participate."
January 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"I liked the online/remote format, because it is easier to follow and do the exercises."
January 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"Very interesting. The online VM is much better than having to run a VM in local environment."
January 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"Many thanks for this great course. The content and documentation have been very well prepared. Our trainer has clearly explained the details about each subject."
January 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"I liked the exercices in small teams, the quality of the workbook and good interaction with the trainer."
January 2022, Virtual, Switzerland
"I liked hacking methods and business impacts."
January 2022, Virtual, India
"Well-balaced flow of the information with stories."
January 2022, Virtual, India
"The course is very practical and up to date."
December 2021, Virtual
"Good trainers and good material."
December 2021, Virtual
"Quite cool information on how the 'innocent' line of code could broke the security completely."
December 2021, Virtual
"Exercises well organized. Better than live class room training. I received many interesting points which I need/could use in my every day work."
December 2021, Virtual
"I liked the fact that we were split into 2 smaller groups and that the trainer could see exactly what we were doing during the exercises."
December 2021, Virtual
"Trainer was very experienced and explained in very detail. The content was very good."
October 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"I was getting new knowledge of PKI which was not visible in my previous experience."
October 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"Overall very good introduction to the topic with a good mix of information, illustrations, examples and exercises."
October 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"The course gives overall a good insight about the PKI Infrastructure."
October 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"Discussing the steps of the exercises before execution was a really good approach. This way it was easy to understand what we are doing, and not just copy-pasting things from the slides."
September 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"I liked the online platform and that commands can be tried on raspberry pi HW."
September 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"Real TPM hardware exercises."
September 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"Right mix of theory and exercises."
September 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"The trainer was very knowledgeable and informative about the areas covered, and always offered additional information on other areas. He made the course engaging and made it easy to absorb information."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"The trainer was very knowledgeable on the subject and provided detailed explanations with examples where necessary."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"The trainer was very knowledgeable of real world events, explaining how and why they occurred."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"I enjoy programming a lot, so being given programming tasks was very fun!"
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"It was CL-CHALLenging, trainers were amazing in 1-to-1 conversations and patient with questions."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"The C CL-CHALLenge was very interesting and got me thinking."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"I liked the interactivity of the CL-CHALLenge."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"I enjoyed having a 'proper' project to work on. I liked being able to see how much I had improved my C over the CL-CHALLenge."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"The technical literacy of the trainers helped me identify issues within my own code. Thus making me a bettter programmer in general."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"It helped me consider how I write my code from now on."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"I liked that there were so many trainers available to help, they were very useful and you never had to wait more than 5 minutes for assistance!"
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"The C CL-CHALLenge was definitely a CL-CHALLenge, but with support from the staff, it was very enjoyable."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"I liked the CL-CHALLenge of having to debug errors and understand C in order to get the code to work, as well as the level of support given."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"Enjoyed the fast pace and a lot of support provided."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"I liked how helpful and informative the trainers were."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"I liked that the CL-CHALLenge was realistic - using and fixing someone else's code. I also liked the number of mentors and the availability of support."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"The CL-CHALLenge allowed me to delve deeper into C and learn how to think about security of my programs while coding."
July 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"I especially liked the balance between the presentation/technical information and the exercises. The trainer did a really good job in the presentation, explanation, and keeping the subject interesting."
July 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"Detailed exercises, I could try in practice."
July 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"Very good balance between the theory and the exercises."
July 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"The guided exercises were really useful."
July 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"The presentation part contained a lot of valuable information."
July 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"Quality material."
July 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"I liked the interactive, explanatory exercises."
July 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"There is a lot of useful information. The trainer is very professional. He is good at conveying information and answering questions."
May 2021, Virtual, USA
"I've really appreciated the complex information presented by the trainer."
May 2021, Virtual, USA
"The course's material is pretty useful and covers all tech sides of how to secure your data."
May 2021, Virtual, USA
"Trainers are amazing."
May 2021, Virtual, USA
"Well prepared material and good and professional trainers."
May 2021, Virtual, USA
"The course gave an overview of potential risks and we were practicing every vulnerability we discussed."
April 2021, Virtual, USA
"The instructor is knowledgeable and the material matches our needs."
April 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"My favourite was the Payment manipulation part, that was total awesome."
March 2021, Virtual, India
"The secure coding practices helped me get a better understanding of the OWASP Top 10 web application security risks. It definitely provided new insights."
March 2021, Virtual, India
"The training really added new insights to my learning. Especially the secure coding part that helped me understand the OWASP Top 10 Web application security risks better."
March 2021, Virtual, India
"The provided code examples and the simulator environment helped a lot to understand the big picture."
March 2021, Virtual, Switzerland
"Our instructor was very knowledgeable and could easily cope with transferring that knowledge to people with different levels of experience in the presented field."
January 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"Clear examples, exercises in the VM were good, building up from "first principles" helped understanding."
January 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"I really liked the pacing, it gives time to explore a lot of subjects without just scratching the surface of them. Other than that I liked a lot the exercises in the VM, very nice addition."
January 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom
"Lots of general topics, real world examples, and easily understandable exercise."
December 2020, Virtual, Sweden
"The subject is important and interesting. The course material is good to have as a reference in the future."
December 2020, Virtual, Sweden
"I liked that we had actual code examples to practice with and the teacher was good."
November 2020, Virtual, United Kingdom
"The exercises within the virtual machine were helpful in cementing the information being given."
November 2020, Virtual, United Kingdom
"The course content was really good and very well explained."
November 2020, Virtual, India
"The syllabus coverage was very good and the trainer was technically adept and was able to communicate the issues properly."
November 2020, Virtual, India
"The course material and the exercises are very well prepared."
November 2020, Virtual, India
"The course had a good layout and topics that were covered flowed well into one another. The use of the VM software, to give access to different java projects, was also very good."
November 2020, Virtual, United Kingdom
"The course content was very well prepared and explained, and flowed logically from one subject to another in a way that was easy to understand and follow each topic."
November 2020, Virtual, United Kingdom
"I really liked how the trainer explained the information in the clear and understanable way. He added a lot of personal knowledge from the industry."
November 2020, Virtual, United Kingdom
"Excellent trainer, good materials and hands-on exercises."
November 2020, Virtual, United Kingdom
"Clear explanations, very cool that we discussed current vulnerabilites."
October 2020, Virtual, Hungary
"In depth presentation and concrete situation/exercices of OWASP10 and other security issues."
September 2020, Virtual, Switzerland
"The readily available environments for the exercises made it easy to follow without being a black-belt developer."
September 2020, Virtual, Switzerland
"I liked the direct style of the tutor along with his expertise. The shown examples were mostly easy to understand and their formulation was clear. Indisputably, the tutor is an expert in his field."
September 2020, Budapest, Hungary
"Good examples and conversations related to them."
September 2020, Budapest, Hungary
"The practical exercises were really useful to deepen my understanding of the possible attack vectors. The course is well-built structually and is easy to follow and understand."
September 2020, Budapest, Hungary
"Very good pace to keep the interest throughout, clear presentation, and actively engaging all participants"
July 2020, Virtual, Switzerland
"It gave me an overview of tools that will support me during coding and later on for testing."
July 2020, Virtual, Switzerland
" I liked the feeling of when it finally clicked and I could figure out what was going on in the code."
July 2020, Virtual, United Kingdom
"Extremely CL-CHALLenging to begin with. Once I understood what was going on and got the first image loaded, it was great. There was a lot of help available, if you needed it."
July 2020, Virtual, United Kingdom
"I especially liked how CL-CHALLenging it was which allowed me to learn a lot and feel like I had achieved a lot at the same time."
July 2020, Virtual, United Kingdom
"Instructor was very knowledgeable and course content was very extensive."
July 2020, Virtual, United Kingdom
"The trainer was excellent at conveying complicated ideas and would not hesitate to make sure everyone was following."
July 2020, Virtual, United Kingdom
"It was very interesting, I especially liked the real-life examples and practices."
April 2020, Virtual, Hungary
"I liked the interactive 'hacking' part where I got to try these examples on a custom made website and find breaches on my own."
April 2020, Virtual, Hungary
"I got lots of relevant information and the trainer was very knowledgeable."
February 2020, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
"I liked the depth of each sections and the use of case studies."
February 2020, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
"Good breadth of topics covered. Exercises helped to demonstrate applicability of vulnerabilities."
February 2020, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
"It has given me an insight into topics I've heard of, and some practical examples of security issues, and how they can be avoided or fixed."
February 2020, Newcastle, United Kingdom
"Coverage of the topic is good"
March 2019, Göteborg, Sweden
"Good to get an overwiev about the topic"
March 2019, Göteborg, Sweden
"Case studies were interesting"
March 2019, Göteborg, Sweden
"Interesting excercises, which were already prepared"
March 2019, Göteborg, Sweden
"It is very complete, it covers everything."
February 2019, Nivelles, Belgium
"Great overview and structured material and clear communication and teaching."
February 2019, Örebro, Sweden
"Broad range of information - Lot to think about!"
January 2019, Mansfield, United Kingdom
"The range of topic covered, very broad"
January 2019, Mansfield, United Kingdom
"The trainer was very knowledgable and enthusiastic. Prepared to add/modify content."
January 2019, London, United Kingdom
"Huge wealth of information covering a wide variety of topics."
January 2019, London, United Kingdom
"The practices and examples were very useful."
December 2018, Debrecen, Hungary
"Good atmosphere."
December 2018, Debrecen, Hungary
"I like exercise session, very nice contenct and examples are there."
December 2018, Mansfield, United Kingdom
"The content was very good."
December 2018, Mansfield, United Kingdom
"Virtual machine resources allowed us to test and experiment with some of the concepts."
November 2018, Halden, Norway
"Lots of new information to apply in appications currently in development and existing applications as well."
November 2018, Halden, Norway
"Examples were great."
November 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"Good overview of the security related issues/threats at the begining."
November 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"Exercises - allows us to apply the principles and see the vulnerabilities firsthand."
November 2018, Salem, VA, USA
"It was a good review of Java and web subjects and I learned a lot of new things about security."
November 2018, Salem, VA, USA
"The labs were written in the same language/framework used in the company, that was very helpful."
November 2018, Salem, VA, USA
"Easy to follow, great instructor."
November 2018, Trondheim, Norway
"It covered a wide aspect of security issues."
November 2018, Trondheim, Norway
"Relevant content. Good performance by Mr. Kiss."
November 2018, Trondheim, Norway
"I liked the depth and the breadth of the information presented."
November 2018, Ottawa, Canada
"I enjoyed the hands-on activities. Particlarly I was impressed with the correctness of the slides and how they helped me with exercises."
November 2018, Ottawa, Canada
"The hands-on exercises were very good."
November 2018, Ottawa, Canada
"The instructor was knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Highly recommend the course!"
November 2018, Silverdale, WA, USA
"Learning how vulnerable most of our systems are."
November 2018, Silverdale, WA, USA
"I liked the practical application portion of the class. It's easiest for me to learn when I can go hands on."
November 2018, Silverdale, WA, USA
"The course materials taught in class were well managed."
October 2018, Nanjing, China
"So much good exampleps on how to write secure code in real work."
October 2018, Nanjing, China
"I liked the expertise of the teacher. Clearly and easy understanding speeches."
October 2018, Beijing, China
"The exercises are good for understanding the complicated training materials."
October 2018, Beijing, China
"Kind teacher who is patiently explain the principle."
October 2018, Beijing, China
"The course is a good compact review of "what a SW developer should know in 2018 about security.""
October 2018, Ulm, Germany
"Broad spectrum of information on security, very interesting. Practical eyercises were very nice! VM was good + well prepared."
October 2018, Ulm, Germany
"The concept of the INT-MAX to INT-MIN to INT-MIN roundup in a circle was an eye-opener for me."
October 2018, Ulm, Germany
"I liked the hands-on approach."
October 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"The coding examples were great. Real life examples were also excellent way to show why secure coding is important."
October 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"Interesting and new view on every day work."
October 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"I have personal interest in security and I read few books about seecurity, pentesting and crypto and this was great way to see some basic "Hands on" examples. Well done."
October 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"Practical parts were fun to do. "
October 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"Short, easy to understand samples. Linux environment. Well timed schedule."
October 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"Well focused on the topic"
October 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"Good examples of vulnerabilites and real life case studies."
October 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"Real life solutions and examples."
October 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"Theory was followed up by practice. Makes you feel smart."
October 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"The buffer overflow part was especialy great because there were a lot of exercises and an adequately large amount of time to discuss and understand the subject."
October 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"We could try the attacks/defences in practice."
October 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"Both general information about security and exercised, case studies."
October 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"The really good explanations, most things were easy to understand."
September 2018, Renningen, Hungary
"Really interesting course, with concrete example."
September 2018, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland
"Quite interactive with practical and actual examples."
September 2018, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland
"The quality of the slides, the seamless execution of the exercises, the wide coverage of subject really got me"
September 2018, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland
"The rapid change to web dev course. Nice demonstrations! Well prepared speaker!"
September 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"The examples, case studies and the best practices for avoiding the most common programmng failure."
September 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"I like that it was about all aspects of security not only some part of it."
September 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"Exercises, the speaker and the lot of anectdotes - it's easier to understand with these stories and easier to memorize."
September 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"The case studies, "test" environment were well prepared and easy to handle. Every listed problem was linked with a proper solution."
September 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"It presented a mostly comprehensive outlook on the general topic, instead of being too specialized."
September 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"the training helped me to understand the securirty, vulnerabilities in the applications."
September 2018, Bangalore, India
"Got more information on security aspect which can be utilized in future."
September 2018, Bangalore, India
"Appreciated the breadth and depth of topics covered."
September 2018, Bangalore, India
"I like the case-study part. It makes me know the true case about the attacks."
September 2018, Chengdu, China
"Knowledge combined with training."
September 2018, Chengdu, China
"I can know the overall view of secure coding, and enhance some knowledge like shellshock. It's all right for me."
September 2018, Chengdu, China
"Hands on experience, real world problems."
August 2018, Kista, Sweden
"Secure Coding is a difficult subject, but it was made understandable by a very good teacher."
August 2018, Kista, Sweden
"It was extensive, the material has a lot of information that I can dig into deeper on my own. Provided resource links allow me to check back with the topic. "
August 2018, Kuopio, Finland
"Lots of simple enough examples that helped to understand complex topics."
August 2018, Kuopio, Finland
"The course captures even the simple mistakes which could lead to major security issues and with practicals which makes easy to understand. It will be very useful for the developers on their day to day work."
August 2018, Kuopio, Finland
"Learned about new types of vulnerabilities."
August 2018, Kuopio, Finland
"Especially liked the high range of information."
August 2018, Erlangen, Germany
"Exercises with good documentations, good knowledge of trainer."
July 2018, Erlangen, Germany
"Professional trainer, very good exercises"
June 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"Practical approach, exercises."
June 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"Spot the bug exercises were the best, help our thinking for the right way."
June 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"The real life examples, the good documentation."
June 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"A good balance of theory, principles and practice, case studies."
June 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"Wide range of subjects and good material."
June 2018, Helsinki, Finland
"The trainer was professional and had great way of presenting,"
June 2018, Helsinki, Finland
"The trainer was excellent. Extensive knowledge of the subject. Good course material, quite comprehensive."
June 2018, Helsinki, Finland
"The training and the materials provided are very well organized."
June 2018, Helsinki, Finland
"Good balance between theory and excercises, well-prepares virtual machine for exercises."
June 2018, Helsinki, Finland
"I liked the trainers commitment especially."
June 2018, Fürth, Germany
"Very professional."
June 2018, Fürth, Germany
"Broad overview of security topics."
June 2018, Fürth, Germany
"Good trainer, good excercises."
June 2018, Fürth, Germany
"Clear examples, security vulnerabilities were demonstated in such a way that it's easy to see how serious they can be."
May 2018, Oulu, Finland
"Practical examples and good materials."
May 2018, Oulu, Finland
"Getting good and broad overall picture about security."
May 2018, Oulu, Finland
"Good coverage of the topic with lots of samples to work with."
May 2018, Oslo, Norway
"I really liked that there were plenty of hands-on exercises to go through. It was really enjoyable and useful to see how specific vulnerabilities can be used in practice, even against a site that is deliberately insecure."
April 2018, Carlsbad, CA, USA
"Opened my eyes! The idea that source code should be considered as public, not safe to put secrets hard coded..."
April 2018, Carlsbad, CA, USA
"The hard copy course material was great; I liked the hands-on lab applications."
April 2018, Carlsbad, CA, USA
"The information we learned was very applicable to my everyday job! I picked up a lot of information as well as got a good refresher on other material. The slides are a great resource I will refer back to. Loved all the real C/C++ as well as the case studies!"
April 2018, Carlsbad, CA, USA
"This course is extremely applicable to my job and I can't wait to apply it to my current and future work. I really appreciate that I got to take the course."
April 2018, Carlsbad, CA, USA
"The case studies presented were carefully tied to the specific coding principles presented. Builds a stronger connection to real world and likelihood of applying lessons to future work."
April 2018, Carlsbad, CA, USA
"I liked to explore the case studies."
March 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Exercises were quite interesting and working well. The trainer was very well prepared. Very professional!"
March 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland
"The structure was great: a good balance of theory, practice and case studies."
March 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland
"It was very dynamic and interactive!"
March 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland
"It was a good mix of theory, practice, exercises and case studies. The selection of topics was matching our coders perfectly."
March 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland
"I had many jaw-dropping discoveries."
March 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Practical examples were good and simple to understand."
March 2018, Budapest, Hungary
"The working environment and the exercises were great. The material helped us to remember the content."
February 2018, Istanbul, Turkey
"The pre-installed exercise environment was very nice - I don't like to install and configure so many programs at training. Also, real-life examples were very useful for me."
February 2018, Istanbul, Turkey
"Material was very well organized, and the instructor had a broad knowledge on the subjects."
February 2018, Istanbul, Turkey
"The focus was on the right things."
February 2018, Tampere, Finland
"Interesting real world stories. Good practical introduction to cryptography."
February 2018, Tampere, Finland
"The trainer did a good job teaching and explaining the topics, a great variety of in-depth content with interesting case studies. Course was relevant to my job."
February 2018, Tampere, Finland
"The exercises were not spoon-fed. We had to apply the learned material to solve."
February 2018, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"The exercises were vital to developing a clear working understanding of the concepts."
February 2018, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"The topics were interesting and the trainer was presenting them very well - he was also very enjoyable to listen to."
January 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"I learned about some vulnerabilities I was not so familiar with before, like object deserialization and XXE."
January 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"The high-quality documentation to track the material provided a broad overview over several security aspects, and is well usable to deep dive into the subject."
January 2018, Erlangen, Germany
"It was a really wide overview of the complete security area, with all the use cases provided in the course."
January 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"The examples were neatly put together and gave us the basic feel of how it looks when trying to bypass security."
January 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"I could relate to the real world examples and exercises."
January 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"Through the real life application on the first day I already recognized a security threat in our project which would allow access to some sensitive files."
January 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"All examples are highly applicable in real world (in my work)."
January 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
"I especially liked the best practices and error handling parts."
December 2017, Stavanger, Norway
"Good practices and real-life references."
December 2017, Stavanger, Norway
"Exercises are well prepared and easy to play with!"
December 2017, Stavanger, Norway
"I liked the technical implementation of the exercises ."
December 2017, Oslo, Norway
"Very well prepared course material and tools!"
December 2017, Oslo, Norway
"Hands on training with good examples."
December 2017, Oslo, Norway
"The topics were really detailed."
December 2017, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"The practical parts to understand the theory were great."
December 2017, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"I appreciated the knowledge of the trainer, the samples that were linked to the theories, the detailed information and the course being up-to-date!"
December 2017, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"The training was good as a whole, built up from the beginning to the end properly."
December 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"Case studies were interesting. Exercises on virtual machines provided an excellent practical point of view to the topics."
November 2017, Tampere, Finland
"Presentation and material were very clear and focused on practical issues. Case studies and exercises were very good."
November 2017, Tampere, Finland
"The educator was an exceptional speaker! It was really easy to follow the lectures, and the enthusiasm of the educator was really motivating."
November 2017, Tampere, Finland
"It was very relevant to my work as a programmer."
November 2017, Tampere, Finland
"Interesting subject, real life examples, excellent trainer. A lot of new tricks and tips concerning security."
November 2017, Tampere, Finland
"Well prepared exercise environment and real life examples."
November 2017, Dresden, Germany
"Trainer was very well prepared, organized and experienced. "
November 2017, Dresden, Germany
"I like the exercise part. It's pretty interesting. Through the coding exercise and walkthrough we understood better the fundamentals of those security bugs - and how to fix them."
November 2017, Dresden, Germany
"Nice mix between theory and exercises. Trainer was clear in his message. The exercises had a close connection to reality."
November 2017, Halmstad, Sweden
"Nice exercises, easier to follow when you can put things into context."
November 2017, Halmstad, Sweden
"I especially like the trainers knowledge and that all the information were up to date. There were many practical solutions that i did not know."
November 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"Previously we always just discussed and did the "expected" things against hacking - but never tried them out."
November 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"Interesting topics and new tips for our daily work."
November 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"The ratio of theory, real life examples (most from our industry) and exercises guarantee that the transferred information will be long-lasting."
November 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"Hands on examples, wide range of sectors and types of attacks. Well explained and easy to follow. The instructor was well prepared and answered all the questions of huge range."
October 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
"I liked the real world examples explained and shown, because that way its easier to understand"
October 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
"The combination of theory and excercises was lovely"
October 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
"The details of the examples were very good, the trainers style and pace was good for the group."
September 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"I liked that we could try the vulnerabilities in practice."
September 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"I have to say this was the most interesting and most useful professional training I attended ever."
September 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"Having the examples on hand was great. Slides packed with good info."
August 2017, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"I liked the virtual machines, the real world examples, the theory and reasoning."
August 2017, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"Real "world" experience with concepts I've really not had a safe chance to test."
August 2017, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"It was engaging with a good balance between exercises, teaching and case studies. Exercises were more than just showing, we understood. I will remember more information as a result!"
August 2017, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"The course was excellent and very informative, and rich with examples."
July 2017, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
"In-depth explanations, examples, a new way of looking at code"
June 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"Well prepared virtual environment for the exercises, effectively helped understanding the topics"
June 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"I enjoyed the real life examples and hands-on practice"
June 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"I learned how attackers think."
May 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"Lot of real life examples, code snippets."
May 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"The openness of the trainer who was very prepared and answered to the questions raised firmly."
May 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"It was very handy that the case studies were supported by real running examples."
May 2017, Tallinn, Estonia
"Good real world examples of security cases were shown, good exercises and environment (VM)."
May 2017, Tallinn, Estonia
"The surprising vulnerabilities were explained graphically and also actually demoed. Explanation was done on a deep understanding level."
May 2017, Tallinn, Estonia
"The trainer and the training material was very well prepared!"
May 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"Good that it was well supported by practical examples. "
May 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"The extent of the material was awesome as well as being practice-based with many exercises that helped understanding the material."
April 2017, Miskolc, Hungary
"Showed me a new way of thinking in development."
April 2017, Miskolc, Hungary
"I liked the examples that showed how easy it was to exploit a small bug."
April 2017, Halmstad, Sweden
"The most vaulable is the in-depth knowledge about security issues, and how to avoid them by small code corrections."
April 2017, Halmstad, Sweden
"Learning how exploits work was great. A lot of new information on what can go wrong."
April 2017, Halmstad, Sweden
"I enjoyed the injections overview and it's hands on. They've given a clear way for having checks, validations and planning for code vulnerabilities on a daily basis."
March 2017, Campinas, Brazil
"I really loved the study cases and the perfectly prepared environment for the exercises. "
March 2017, Campinas, Brazil
"The foundation topics about security, the several examples, exercises and case studies presented and I liked especially the desktop applications exploiting part."
March 2017, Campinas, Brazil
"I liked the fun parts and the relevancy!"
March 2017, Oslo, Norway
"Exercises, good atmosphere, ideal VM for exercises."
March 2017, Szeged, Hungary
"The trainer was really professional and the VM was awesome!"
February 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"Demo applications and case studies were very useful. Java and other framework bugs were collected well."
February 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"The course came with a wide range of topics, I also enjoyed the examples which I could try out myself"
February 2017, Budapest, Hungary
"I liked the course content, the level of expertise and the dedication of the trainer."
January 2017, Rabat, Morocco
"The hands on exercises were very fun!"
December 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"The case studies were useful to me. The fact that they were from recent events was also a good thing!"
December 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"The course was well planned and topics were supported with enough examples and exercises."
December 2016, Bangalore, India
"Theory + practical was really good! :)"
December 2016, Bangalore, India
"Course content is crisp and precise!"
December 2016, Bangalore, India
"It was extensive - a lot of topics, both high level and detailed!"
December 2016, Stockholm, Sweden
"A lot of practical tips-n-tricks to avoid security flaws."
December 2016, Stockholm, Sweden
"Wakeup regarding programming security! "
December 2016, Sogndal, Norway
"The whole session covers so many aspects of security from small topics to more broader ones, which is very nice."
November 2016, Bangalore, India
"I felt the course was very informative, also the exercises very useful. "
November 2016, Bangalore, India
"Very useful. Great examples I can look at after class for examples on how to fix code."
November 2016, Morrisville, NC, USA
"It was very smart to give material in such a way that can be run locally (virtual machine), that way we can continue learning, re-doing labs later on, and have all the tools used."
November 2016, Morrisville, NC, USA
"Well structured, every vulnerability (theory) linked to sample code (practice) and some real life case studies."
November 2016, Morrisville, NC, USA
"Concrete examples were given and we could execute some real exercises."
October 2016, Brussels, Belgium
"Cool demonstrations / exercises. The backdoor examples were the best! "
October 2016, Krakow, Poland
"Good explanation of assembly as well as stack and heap layout."
October 2016, Krakow, Poland
"The demo through exercises were really nice"
October 2016, Brussels, Belgium
"The exercises were by far my favorite part. Case studies were great also!"
October 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"Loved the lab and code analysis we did. I also liked the material in the slides, well diversified and can catch interest in many areas!"
October 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"There is a lot of good information in the course. Case studies and concrete examples were very good."
October 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"Thorough undersanding and explanation of advanced concepts was awesome. Great primer on application security."
September 2016, Tysons Corner, VA, USA
"I liked the relevance of the material and how current the information was."
September 2016, Tysons Corner, VA, USA
"Broad coverage on a variety of topics with prepared exercises to follow."
September 2016, Tysons Corner, VA, USA
"It was not pure theory, but highly practical."
September 2016, Budapest, Hungary
"The provided documentation was really well organized and useful."
September 2016, Budapest, Hungary
"Various security topics were covered with detailed information."
July 2016, Erlangen, Germany
"I liked the methodology of the explanations: first the problem, then some attack examples, and finally the solution for mitigations."
June 2016, Krakow, Poland
"Just the adequate amount of information in adequate time."
June 2016, Krakow, Poland
"The course widened my perspective on security issues. I not only became more aware of common vulnerabilities that I can encounter, but also learned how to solve them."
June 2016, Istanbul, Turkey
"I enjoyed learning about the use of these vulnerabilities in the real world along with exercises to display them. Focused recommendations about what you should / should not do in code were very useful."
June 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"The exercises supported the content well and definitely solidified the material. There was some theoretical content, but the hands on work helped me understand it more clearly."
June 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"The examples were well-prepared and engaging. They weren't busy work, so the class could keep moving. Overall, lots of good information presented well at a good pace. Thank you!"
June 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"Amount of info was staggering, but well presented. The demos were short and easy to do, understand and follow on-screen."
May 2016, Folsom, CA, USA
"Overall conceptual and technical coverage of security issues were very relevant to the technology stack we are using."
May 2016, Folsom, CA, USA
"The content was highly relevant to my work. Will rethink some of my solutions."
April 2016, Budapest, Hungary
"It provided thorough information on several aspects of security, particularly interesting for junior programmers."
April 2016, Budapest, Hungary
"Lots of very good new (for me) information. I learned quite a bit about exploits and vulnerabilities that I didn't fully understand before."
April 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"I enjoyed the trainer's expertise and his attention to detail. I thought the pacing was good and the material worthwhile. The exercises were especially helpful."
April 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"It opened my eyes regarding many things I knew nothing about."
April 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"The exercises prepared in the VM were very useful in illustrating the consequences of security flaws."
April 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"The instructor was very knowledgeable; clearly an expert in the field. Easy to follow and kept things interesting."
April 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"Without question, the exercises were the best part of the course. They did a great job of re-enforcing each section, and it did wonders for my retention."
April 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"It opened my eyes to a whole new environment - or array of possibilities - of testing. I hope to use the learnt techniques in my work."
April 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"It was interesting from a theoretical perspective. I liked the exercises. It was nice to see the concepts enacted."
April 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"I liked the case studies, as well as the discussions about crypto."
March 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"A wealth of information that truly allowed me to better understand the security concerns in our code."
March 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"Very thorough examples, lots of information to back up why certain protocols and practices exist."
March 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"A good variety of material presented that tied to different people's interests. I liked the hands on stuff the best."
March 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"The course covered a lot of topics and the instructor was very knowledgeable. I especially liked the coverage of recent vulnerabilities."
March 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"I liked the real world examples in the case studies, as well as the vulnerabilities that we could relate to our own code."
March 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"I liked the theoretical explanations and the way they were coupled with practical exercises."
March 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"Good pace, trainer did very well at maintaining clear focus and participation."
March 2016, München, Germany
"The relation to current topics as well as the expertise of the trainer made the whole training very motivating."
March 2016, München, Germany
"The trainer is good! One can feel his affinity to security."
March 2016, München, Germany
"I learned a lot of new things about threats and risks for which my application should be prepared for."
February 2016, Stuttgart, Germany
"Lots of new information, especially about the still relevant dangers of buffer overflows. Thanks for that! :)"
February 2016, Stuttgart, Germany
"It was excellent. Eye opening experience."
December 2015, Bakersfield, CA, USA
"Good material and references to case studies and issues encountered by companies."
December 2015, Bakersfield, CA, USA
"Great knowledge and excellent examples with a VM to test."
December 2015, Bakersfield, CA, USA
"The course was well structured. There were lot of unknown and essential facts about secure coding that I learnt."
December 2015, Bakersfield, CA, USA
"Beneficial examples + the "why" explained very well."
December 2015, Bakersfield, CA, USA
"I've been programming for 40 years now, but I never thought about this."
December 2015, Bakersfield, CA, USA
"The exercises and all the preparation in terms of the virtual machine were the most interesting aspects of the training programme."
November 2015, Gurgaon, India
"Security itself is an interesting aspect of programming, so I enjoyed it."
November 2015, Gurgaon, India
"The program let us know about the most important aspects that are actually used in development. The trainer's presentation was very effective."
November 2015, Gurgaon, India
"The teaching aspect and the way of making us understand each topic was quite effective."
November 2015, Gurgaon, India
"Compact, well pursued, well documented. It was possible to ask job-specific questions."
November 2015, Neckartenzlingen, Germany
"It was easy to understand and follow the course."
November 2015, Neckartenzlingen, Germany
"A lot of new and interesting things to watch out for when coding."
November 2015, Bucharest, Romania
"Examples were perfectly matching my current line of work."
November 2015, Bucharest, Romania
"It was great that the VM was already set up and all needed files and scripts were available. We got a good overview about security topics. Practical presentation about known bugs was very helpful."
November 2015, Neckartenzlingen, Germany
"I particularly enjoyed the practical examples."
October 2015, Bucharest, Romania
"I liked interactivity pretty much: the chance to look up on the Internet or test in the command line (in the VM) any piece of code presented and any piece of information."
October 2015, Bucharest, Romania
"I like the fact that we could ask freely what we didn't understand and we received enough information to make everything clear."
October 2015, Bucharest, Romania
"The information was well presented. I liked the fact that each one of us had a virtual machine and could do the exercises from the practical part."
October 2015, Bucharest, Romania
"I liked the trainer's communication skills and the way the information was structured. The updates with latest vulnerabilities and known issues were very good."
October 2015, Bucharest, Romania
"I've learnt new and useful information that could be applied in my everyday work - only the protection part, of course. :)"
October 2015, Bucharest, Romania
"Virtual machine setup is well done and work well. The trainer was very experienced and knows what is talking about. The content is very interesting."
October 2015, Gatineau, QC, Canada
"This course will really help us understand many potential vulnerabilities and it surely demonstrated some flaws that we should/will be looking at! :) The teacher was excellent. Thanks!"
October 2015, Gatineau, QC, Canada
"It opened my mind to issues I knew existed but didn't know how easy they could be exploited."
October 2015, Gatineau, QC, Canada
"The trainer obviously knows his stuff. Very professional. The information was abundant and very well explained. It's probably the first time I can say I understood everything on a training."
October 2015, Gatineau, QC, Canada
"Lots of information and very convincing demos/labs showing the vulnerabilities that exist. An eye opener to how a small bug can be exploited."
October 2015, Gatineau, QC, Canada
"The trainer was very knowledgeable and presented the material in a clean manner."
September 2015, Temecula, CA, USA
"I liked the organization and the good overview of problems that I didn't know I might have to resolve. Good resources (links, examples, notes, exercises, etc.) for further reference."
September 2015, Temecula, CA, USA
"The trainer's level of expertise is +++! Obviously a true expert in the field."
September 2015, Temecula, CA, USA
"Very good, both descriptive and innovative."
September 2015, Karlskrona, Sweden
"It was quite interesting. The examples were quite good showcase of real life scenarios."
September 2015, Karlskrona, Sweden
"Many of these areas are things that I will use in my daily work."
September 2015, Karlskrona, Sweden
"Exercises were good, trainer was able to explain things clearly. Good PDF content, and the amount of information shared in four days was good. Covers a lot of areas in application security."
September 2015, Karlskrona, Sweden
"Good code examples, easy to launch and see the problem."
May 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Large spectrum of topics was covered in a short time."
May 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Good presentation of the topics, easy to follow. A good choice of topics for developers."
March 2015, München, Germany
"Very good overview of why security is important for developers, managers, etc. Great examples and great teaching style, as well as great content."
March 2015, München, Germany
"Much information, but well structured. Exercises were well prepared. Discussion on tools we can use was helpful."
March 2015, München, Germany
"The course gave deep technical knowledge about the subject matter, especially with the aid of labs."
March 2015, Accra, Ghana
"Both the content and the delivery was great!"
March 2015, Accra, Ghana
"Theoretical as well as practical part of the course was all for better understanding. The prepared test environment and the code snippets and command were helpful."
March 2015, Neckartenzlingen, Germany
"I now understand the methods of how to alter the operation of programs to make them do bad stuff."
March 2015, Neckartenzlingen, Germany
"Structure and coverage of the subjects were good."
March 2015, Neckartenzlingen, Germany
"I liked the practical examples about the already publicly known vulnerabilities just from the last months."
March 2015, Neckartenzlingen, Germany
"Very practical course. Many discussions. It was FUN!"
March 2015, Neckartenzlingen, Germany
"Made us sensible for security."
March 2015, Neckartenzlingen, Germany
"It was very interesting to learn about techniques to attack crypto chips. The summary about security analysis at the end was very helpful."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"Good overview, sufficient details."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"I liked the experience and the clear English of the trainer."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"Well explained, easy to follow."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"It was great that even the recent vulnerabilities like Heartbleed and Shellshock were included and discussed."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"I got paranoid. :)"
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"Learning about different kinds of attacks is a good motivation to write more secure code. The hands-on sessions about buffer overflow attacks were quite interesting."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"Good combination of the theory and practice. The examples, e.g. bash, open ssl, bugs were great. Well prepared materials."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"I liked the presentation of practical ways in which vulnerabilities are exploited. Also the possibility to see how fixes in code and prevention/detection tecniques apply in those cases."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"Very clear explanations, lots of examples."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"Lot of aspects which are ignored in everyday life. Good understanding how C program executes and the resourse management for it."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"Exercises keep attendees focused and were interesting. Learned many different ways in which security can be compromised."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"Good practical examples, not just theory."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"Good explanation of complex topics."
February 2015, Ulm, Germany
"It was good that examples and exercises followed the topics. Each exercise was well prepared, understandable, and by doing them the main points were easy to catch."
November 2014, Budapest, Hungary
"The trainer was very well prepared and he enjoyed teaching us. The topic was very good."
November 2014, Budapest, Hungary
"The tricky Java bugs were really interesting."
November 2014, Budapest, Hungary
"It gave me the knowledge about the vulnerabilities of coding and .NET framework. Also, told me how to prevent and fix them. I will say thanks to the teacher!"
November 2014, Beijing, China
"Excellent! I think it is a very good course for us developers to understand security. The teacher was professional and helpful."
November 2014, Beijing, China
"State of the art information with good exercises."
October 2014, Budapest, Hungary
"I've seen and learnt many new things. Very much liked learning about the machine code representation of the C code."
October 2014, Budapest, Hungary
"The exercises were really good."
October 2014, Budapest, Hungary
"Very well explained, with interesting exercises. I was most surprised by the fact that I understood 99% of it!"
October 2014, Bracknell, United Kingdom
"Seeing the application of the vulnerabilities rather than just the theory made them far more concerning."
October 2014, Bracknell, United Kingdom
"Many interesting examples, prepared in a good way through the virtual machine. Efficient and right to the point."
October 2014, Budapest, Hungary
"A lot of interesting information. Some CL-CHALLenging questions. Well prepared exercises."
October 2014, Budapest, Hungary
"The subject was very interesting, as well as the teacher's preparedness was excellent. Exercises were good, and I liked the explanations and the background stories."
October 2014, Budapest, Hungary
"After attending the course I now have knowledge about possible vulnerabilities and threats in Java applications. I also have a knowledge on how to prevent them and how to produce more secure code."
October 2014, Wroclaw, Poland
"Providing a virtual machine with the exercises was great. It is better than writing code from scratch. Trainer answered all our questions, and topics went very well into my mind."
October 2014, Wroclaw, Poland
"It was comprehensive in its coverage. This is a large topic and a lot of ground was covered in a clear manner."
September 2014, South Jordan, UT, USA
"I liked that the trainer built a foundation for the principles, instead of just listing the main points."
September 2014, South Jordan, UT, USA
"The code examples were set up well for quick demonstrations. The trainer was great! Better than most of my university professors."
September 2014, South Jordan, UT, USA
"It helped us learn more about secure coding and the ways to improve our code quality."
July 2014, Nanjing, China
"The exercises are quite interesting."
July 2014, Nanjing, China
"Many brand new security related knowledge for me. It will help a lot in future work."
July 2014, Nanjing, China
"Trainer is very professional."
July 2014, Beijing, China
"A lot of useful info."
July 2014, Beijing, China
"Shown us what we have never imagined."
July 2014, Beijing, China
"Very good speed and clear examples."
June 2014, Oulu
"Covered everyday code issues and addressed common concerns."
June 2014, Oulu
"Wide aspects of security."
June 2014, Oulu
"Really adapted to my daily work."
April 2014, Rennes, France
"Excellent training materials, especially the exercises (well prepared, well focused)."
April 2014, Rennes, France
"Very interesting program and good knowledge of the trainer."
April 2014, Rennes, France
"Exercises were well prepared, no lost time, direct to target."
April 2014, Rennes, France
"High quality example code."
April 2014, Rennes, France
"The training material provided by the trainer were well prepared, good focused on the item."
April 2014, Rennes, France
"Very good quality of the labs experiments."
April 2014, Rennes, France
"Nice examples, easy to understand."
March 2014, Oulu
"Very good trainer. Useful tips and good examples from real life situations. Easy to follow topics."
March 2014, Oulu
"Good confirmation on many subjects I was feeling a bit unsecure about."
March 2014, Oulu
"Clearly presented information."
March 2014, Oulu
"Excellent teacher and socially very competent. The program was very hands on."
March 2014, Halli, Finland
"Learnt many new things during the course."
March 2014, Halli, Finland
"Excellent! Waiting for Secure Coding 2."
March 2014, Halli, Finland
"Great and knowledgeable instructor."
March 2014, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
"This course has a good overview of the different area to be aware of."
March 2014, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
"Great course. Contained useful knowledge."
March 2014, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
"The trainer was able to explain everything very clearly."
November 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Exercises were good."
November 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Instructor was excellent."
November 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Instructor has very good knowledge. Really good course."
November 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Very well organized. Professional."
November 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Most entertaining in a long time. Well balanced."
September 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Good level of difficulty."
September 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"The whole session was perfect."
April 2013, Accra, Ghana
"I really enjoyed doing the lab exercises."
April 2013, Accra, Ghana
"I liked the practical training and insights into vulnerabilities and the mitigation, as well as the explanation of cryptogtaphy."
April 2013, Accra, Ghana
"Trainer has a deep understanding of the subject matter. I really benefited from the training and hope to nominate more people for it in the future."
March 2013, Lagos, Nigeria
"The facilitator is really very experienced on the subject. He handled everything professionally."
March 2013, Lagos, Nigeria
"Very revealing and relevant; the training has been able to raise my guard as far as secure coding in .NET is concerned.I now impulsively think security while coding and I'm also eager to test / review my existing code referring my learning points at the training."
March 2013, Lagos, Nigeria
"You did a nice job and hope we can take it up from here. Found out I need to rework most of my code and improve on them."
March 2013, Lagos, Nigeria
"Demonstrated high-level skills in secure programming."
March 2013, Lagos, Nigeria
"I will recommend this to my organisation."
March 2013, Lagos, Nigeria
"Very interesting and important topic. Good knowledge and good pedagogic skill."
March 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"We really need such skills in our daily development work."
March 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"I learned a lot to check and think of."
March 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Course is well organized, information attached is properly structured. Instructor keeps group attention, has a well contact with attendees."
March 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Good language skills, ease of explaining complex matters in easy to understand way."
March 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Topics covered are complicated by its nature, but thanks to good presenting and exercises it is pleasure to take part in course."
March 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Good course. I'd like all our developers to take it."
March 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"The course did well in explaining the attacker mindset, how easy it is to attack SW and explaining some weak code constructs."
March 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Very good. Learnt a lot."
March 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
"Hacking of Web applications and secure coding techniques were very enlightening."
December 2012, Lagos, Nigeria
"The speaker was awesome. He made the class very lively."
December 2012, Lagos, Nigeria
"I am satisfied with all the sessions in this training programme. From IT security and vulnerability session to the Java examples and secure coding sessions, the programme is outstanding. The trainer is well experienced in the field."
December 2012, Lagos, Nigeria
"Experience in learning new things can be leveraged on to enhance our capacity to meet PCI-DSS certification requirements."
December 2012, Lagos, Nigeria
"Facilitator is well grounded on the subject matter and I will like to have him facilitate more courses for us in future."
December 2012, Lagos, Nigeria
"Quite intersting, revealing and educating."
December 2012, Lagos, Nigeria
"It is nice to know how vulnerable we have been in our coding and now how to guard against. It was indeed a great experience."
December 2012, Lagos, Nigeria
"Training was very explicit and focused, with lots of practical examples."
December 2012, Lagos, Nigeria
"Speaker was very articulate and practical."
December 2012, Lagos, Nigeria
"Example applications were very useful exhibits."
September 2012, Budapest, Hungary
"Concrete, life-like examples."
September 2012, Budapest, Hungary
"It gave a good approach and lateral thinking."
September 2012, Budapest, Hungary
"Both the overview and the teacher was good. How he showed explicitly how commonly appearing insecure code constructs can be misused is very effective as eye openers."
September 2012, Stockholm, Sweden
"Exercises were fun and helpful. Got a lot of info..."
September 2012, Budapest, Hungary
"It was very exciting."
September 2012, Budapest, Hungary
"The trainer is quite energetic in his presentation, and can get both the broad concept across, and details for those who want them."
May 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Very knowledgable. A good trainer who kept his audience involved. Lots of hands-on experience and demos to reinforce the learning."
May 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Trainer is very knowledgeable. Course was very interesting and enjoyable."
May 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Great use of examples and code snippets. Good combination of theory and practice."
May 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Very insightful and useful course, especially for owners of server software."
May 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Excellent presentation and very captivating. Thanks!"
May 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Good course with lots of information and lots of things to look at later. Good setup with slides and virtual machine. Trainer is knowledgeable and obviously interested in topic."
May 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Very useful and impressive."
June 2011, Hangzhou, China
"Competent speaker."
June 2011, Budapest, Hungary
"Exercises are very useful; using virtual machine is a good idea!"
June 2011, Budapest, Hungary
"The exercises helped a lot. They were great!"
June 2011, Budapest, Hungary
"I liked the interactivity, the interesting examples and the professional environment."
June 2011, Budapest, Hungary
"I got good overall picture and that was what I was looking for."
June 2011, Tampere, Finland
"Lecturer knew security field from basis to high end details."
June 2011, Tampere, Finland
"Examples were really excellent. Virtual machine was well prepared."
April 2011, Oulu
"Great course."
April 2011, Oulu
"Excellent way to present this quite large area of technology."
April 2011, Oulu
"The trainer managed to keep the group very active and responsive; when asked for a question he would start a conversation to clear the issue."
April 2011, Oulu
"Material was very well done and followed the red-line nicely. Thank you for the course!"
April 2011, Oulu
"The presenter really showed an expertise on the Java security field. The personal way of teaching kept us motivated."
April 2011, Oulu
"Good course which was well presented with good examples."
April 2011, Oulu
"Hands-on exercises and examples were good and especially well-prepared."
February 2011, Tampere, Finland
"Clear and well-explained"
February 2011, Sophia-Antipolis, France
"Good and clearly organized, concise and no missing info at any point."
December 2010, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
"The trainer was very well-prepared for this training, willing to help and explain in details when needed, excellent English speaking and friendly. J"
December 2010, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
"Definitely content. The course gives the overall awareness about the software security and also gives details about security technologies and their weaknesses. Exercises are cool. In other trainings I haven't even met any practical exercises."
October 2010, Wroclaw, Poland
"The trainer knew the fundamentals and explained giving important examples"
July 2010, Bangalore, India
"The presentation was clear and well-done. Complex details were made clear. Practical exercises made it easy to understand the subject."
June 2010, Lisbon, Portugal
"The awareness it created on potential problems is the best weapon against security issues. It was focused on the technology we use. Very updated stuff."
June 2010, Aveiro, Portugal
"Turning to the dark side, eg. to experience system attacks from the hackers' point of view. This gave me better understanding on what can be done to prevent bad intentioned people from taking advantage on exploits."
June 2010, Aveiro, Portugal
"I liked the way the subject was explained with exercises. I liked the way all the course support material was presented to us. I also liked the course content and I think it would be helpful for my near future."
May 2010, Lisbon, Portugal
"The training was interesting and the issues it covered are good to know. The trainer was experienced and knew what he was talking about and managed to deliver and interesting presentation that was easy to follow. Interesting and CL-CHALLenging enough."
December 2009, Espoo, Finland
"Perfect examples to show the loopholes"
December 2009, Bangalore, India
"Good tricks!"
December 2009, Bangalore, India
"Lot of demos, practical exercises and samples. Very strong presentation skill of the trainer. Good balance between theory and practice application."
November 2009, München, Germany
"Trainer is very competent in this technical area. Course content is CL-CHALLenging what is a good thing!"
November 2009, Espoo, Finland
"Interesting hacker techniques. I didn't know before how it works exactly. Now it is more clear how attacks can be done."
November 2009, Wroclaw, Poland
"Exercises can make me understand better"
November 2009, Chengdu, China
"Useful knowledge for secure coding in daily work."
October 2009, Chengdu, China
"Practical exercises were very good. Examples are clear enough and they contain useful information that I can use in my daily work."
July 2009, Athens, Greece