Establish the Baseline: Align Software Security Training with Real-World Skills

In today’s high-stakes development environments, secure code isn't just a best practice, it's a business requirement. But not every developer, engineer, or architect enters the field with the same security awareness, skill level, or practical experience. That variance can be the hidden cause behind inconsistent performance, misaligned priorities, and costly remediation work downstream.

The Solution? Establish a Skills Baseline

Understanding where your teams stand today is the first step toward aligning software security training with organizational risk, development velocity, and engineering priorities. That’s where the Base Camp Skills Development Program from CMD+CTRL delivers exceptional value.

Know What Your Teams Know—Before You Train

The Skills Assessment tools from CMD+CTRL provide a structured, measurable approach to evaluating both conceptual knowledge and practical capabilities. By identifying existing strengths and gaps at the individual level, you can:

• Reduce training time with test-out options for foundational content
• Tailor learning paths by role, technology stack, or development phase
• Map directly to standards like OWASP, NIST, and the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework

Having this baseline insight can help ensure that you're not forcing remedial content on experienced developers or leaving less experienced team members unprepared and helps preserve productivity by minimizing “off-the-bench” time.

Strategic Workforce Planning Backed by Data

Security training isn’t just about reducing risk, it’s also a powerful lever for workforce optimization and professional development.

• New hires can be assessed on day one and quickly matched to the right projects or mentors
• Experienced team members can advance to deeper, role-specific content that extends their skill set
• Leaders gain the confidence that teams are spending time on high-impact learning aligned to real threats and real codebases

This data-informed approach supports smarter onboarding, clearer career growth pathways, and better alignment between development and security.

Benchmark Teams and Track Progress Across the Org

CMD+CTRL’s assessment framework also enables team and organization-level benchmarking, giving you a clear, comparative view of how different teams stack up internally or against industry expectations.

This allows technical leaders to:

• Set meaningful training goals aligned to business objectives and release timelines
• Benchmark progress over time and across development groups
• Create accountability metrics tied to measurable performance improvement

Whether you're looking to justify training investment, improve cross-functional collaboration, or raise the security maturity of your engineering org, these benchmarks provide the data to back your strategy.

From Insight to Execution: Build Skills That Stick

Once you've established your baseline, the Base Camp platform makes it simple to execute training to meet your needs. The CMD+CTRL training experience combines:

• 250+ Micro-modules for role-based content, aligned to industry frameworks and standards
• 150+ Interactive labs that simulate real-world secure coding scenarios
• 11 Hands-on cyber ranges where players learn to think like an attacker, practicing skills in ultra-realistic environments

This goes well beyond check-the-box compliance training to offer applied, contextual education that translates directly into more resilient code, faster remediation, and stronger collaboration between builders, operators, and defenders.

Security as a Capability, Not Just a Goal

Security isn’t just a set of tools, it’s a core engineering capability rooted in people, processes and continuous learning. By understanding where your teams excel and identifying gaps, you can build the skills needed to deliver secure software at scale.