What are Assessments?
Our Assessments test developers' knowledge in key security areas. These assessments allow you to:
Establish a security knowledge baseline
Better understand your developers’ current skills
Including areas of strengths and opportunity
Identify gaps in secure coding practices, secure development methodologies, and core security concepts.
Offer a streamlined training experience by allowing developers to test out of content they already know.
How long does an Assessment take?
Time to complete can vary; it depends on the amount of categories you include in your Assessment. Or if you choose to assign a timed assessment. Currently, we estimate that each question may take 90 seconds to answer.
Total number of questions in each Assessment Category:
Secure coding =15
Core security = 11
Secure development & design = 13
All 3 categories in 1 assessment = 39 questions
Assessment Time to Complete Estimates
Secure Coding: 22 mins
Core Security Concepts: 16 mins
Secure Development & Design: 20 mins
Assessment Setup and Configuration
Navigate to Admin > Assessments > click "Create New Assessment"
2. Enter your Assessment name and Assessment description (this will be visible to end users)
3. Choose your audience. You can add specific users to the assessment using the table and/or CSV file. Once selected, you will need to click "Add Users" before moving onto the next step.
4. Next, choose your content.
Our recommendation is to use the Secure Coding Assessment category as your baseline.
This is selected by default.
Choose your available languages
Let learner's self-select
Limit languages to the ones you want to test against:
C++
C#
Java
Pseudocode
JavaScript
Choose Timed Assessment (optional)
5. Update your assignment settings. Including:
Assessment start and end date
Notification settings
Notify learners when the assessment becomes available (on/off; optional)
Reminders
These can be sent weekly, monthly, quarterly or not at all
6. Review your settings, make any necessary changes and then you are ready to publish!
