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What is Avatao?

Avatao’s security training goes beyond simple tutorials and videos offering an interactive job-relevant learning experience to developer teams, security champions, pentesters, security analysts and DevOps teams. Avatao's approach to secure coding trainingThe Avatao platform immerses developers in high-profile cases and…

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What is Avatao?

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

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Product Details

What is Avatao?

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

Avatao's approach to secure coding training

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

Topics

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

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



Avatao Features

  • Supported: Hands on virtual labs with real scenarios to simulate real-life product development problems
  • Supported: Framework to build a structured security program
  • Supported: Modules for various skill levels & job roles
  • Supported: Guided tutorials for beginners, challenges for advanced users
  • Supported: Comprehensive reporting
  • Supported: Plug and play environment
  • Supported: Docker-based environment
  • Supported: API-based team management for career tracks and belt systems

Avatao Screenshots

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Avatao Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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Avatao has become a valuable platform for developers to practice and protect themselves from potential security harms. By providing real-time scenarios, it enables users to learn and avoid common security fails in software development. Users appreciate the relevance and up-to-date content offered by Avatao, allowing them to build and maintain good development skills. Additionally, the platform's hands-on experience deepens their understanding of IT security. The intuitive user interface makes it convenient for users to quickly practice in areas where they lack experience, enhancing their secure coding skills and improving general IT security knowledge.

Development teams also find value in Avatao, using it on a monthly basis to keep their IT security knowledge up to date and raise security awareness. They particularly focus on the OWASP top 10, completing tasks every couple of months. On the other hand, cybersecurity courses utilize Avatao to provide practical exercises in software security to students. The platform's versatility allows for easy creation and deployment of exercises in various areas such as web security and C/C++ vulnerabilities. Students find the user interface intuitive and convenient, enabling them to gain first-hand experience with software security in a safe environment. Overall, users recommend Avatao as a helpful tool for practicing security strategy in development.

Customizable Work: Users have consistently praised the platform for providing a high level of flexibility, allowing developers to customize their work according to their unique needs and requirements. This freedom empowers them to create solutions that align perfectly with their vision.

Wide Range of Tools: Reviewers unanimously agree that the platform offers an extensive array of tools, making it an excellent choice for software development. These tools are complemented by real-time exercises that enable users to effortlessly check their code for errors and optimize its performance.

User-Friendly Interface: The platform's user-friendly interface has received accolades from users who find it intuitive and easy to navigate. Its responsive design enhances the overall user experience, ensuring smooth navigation and efficient workflow management.

Limited functionality and integration: Some users have expressed the need for the software to be more functional and integrate better with other platforms. They believe that adding languages like PHP, Go, and Scala would greatly benefit the software.

Lack of responsiveness from support team: Several reviewers have mentioned that the support team needs to be more active and responsive in dealing with customers. Users feel that quicker response times and more proactive assistance would enhance their experience with the software.

Restrictions after trial expires: A common complaint among users is that the software is no longer available for personal use after the trial period ends. This restricts access to tutorials and challenges, which some reviewers find limiting in terms of continued learning and skill development.

Users have provided several recommendations for Avatao based on their experiences with the team, product, and support. Firstly, users highly recommend gifting Avatao courses to team members in other companies. Secondly, users have praised the experienced and professional cybersecurity and compliance team at Avatao. Finally, users suggest trying Avatao if one has no knowledge of security or is concerned about it. While acknowledging that there is room for improvement, users believe Avatao is worth trying.

Reviews

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Darren Mihalic | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avatao is one of the best platforms for new developers to have real-time scenarios to protect themselves from any potential security harms. A modern developed software, intuitive platform compiled of relevant up to date content which helps to build and maintain good development skills. It has all the best features that teach developers real-life scenarios on how to avoid common security fails in the development of software.
  • It gives a lot of liberty to developers to do things according to their needs and requirements to check whether it is a good approach or not.
  • I am using this tool for developing software and it has been a great platform for us in doing work especially.
  • It is compiled of all the best tools and provides a real time exercises to check codes easily.
  • Easy to use and user-friendly.
  • [I feel] it needs to be more functional while integrating with other platforms. Not the biggest drawback but there is a need to add more languages to it like PHP, Go, and Scala which is also very much developed and used in the organization.
  • [I believe] the support team needs to be more active and responsive while dealing with the customers.
Great functionalities with a full approach to different programming languages along with features to making changes to the code to make it successful and amazing. Have been using it for a long time and satisfied with their services a lot. Some functionalities need some changes otherwise it is a great platform. I recommend this tool to others businesses.
  • Customization of options.
  • Dashboard is full of advanced functionalities.
  • Gamification.
  • It has been proved as a big find for me and my organization as well. It reduces my work and saves my time a lot which I in the past used to do by myself.
  • I like the most that it allows me to touch real code, modify it according to the needs of my own and then compile all of that code into working applications. These exercises helping me a lot that I can convert multiple job rules so that service can be an integral part of a solid security program in development.
Avatao is playing a great role in providing fantastic services. The great feature that I like the most in Avatao that it does not support only one programming language, it ranges its security protocols from various programming languages like Python, java, C#, and C++. Avatao bot is also very helpful in simple operation as when you get stuck somewhere the bot can actually help and make you out of that easily.
May 04, 2021

My avatao insights

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avatao is used [by] a small group in the organization. It helps practice security strategy in development[.]
  • Cybersecurity scenarios
  • Gain full visibility security qualifications inside the team
  • Give insight
  • Look for the more practical side
I think [Avatao is] a good starting point to look at the security in your development project.
  • Training
  • Giving insights
  • Its a investment you need do but you will have a lot of profit out of it
I think Avatao is more clear [than Onapsis.]
Zoltan Balazs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use Avatao on a monthly basis. It helps me keep my IT security knowledge up to date. The hands-on experience provided by avatao helps the deep understanding of the broad area of IT security. The user interface is intuitive, and I found it convenient. It helps getting quick practice in areas where I lack practice.
  • Excellent option for remote security training.
  • Real-life, hands-on challenges
  • The website is very responsive and easy to use
  • Not available for personal use anymore
They offer a wide range of topics. Almost everyone in the IT security field can find something useful. Starting from web AppSec through secure code development to exotic topics like file format reverse engineering or IoT hacking, there is a pretty wide range of interesting topics. Even though it takes more time to do these hands-on challenges compared to just reading about the topics, in the end, your knowledge will be deeper, and it will take more time to forget.
  • Better results on CTF events
  • It is a great option for remote security training
  • Focus on real-life challenges
What makes Avatao more valuable is the hands-on practices in an easy-to-use web-based environment.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use the Avatao platform to get better at secure coding, as well as improve my general IT security knowledge.
  • Interactive tutorials that make learning feel effortless and fun.
  • Wide range of topics covered.
  • Challenges are sufficently difficult and therefore exciting to solve.
  • If you get stuck, asking for help is easy and you are provided with just enough information to get going again.
  • Once your trial expires, you cannot do any tutorials or challenges.
Avatao is an excellent tool for learning about secure coding and IT security in general. It can help you gain a lot of useful knowledge without feeling like it's a chore. The tutorials and challenges cover a lot of topics, at various difficulty levels. The UI looks nice and it's also user-friendly.
  • I apply the knowledge gained on the Avatao platform every day, as I ensure that our systems are secure.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
All of our development teams have to complete some tasks on Avatao every couple of months. We use it to raise awareness about security and focus mainly on the OWASP top 10.
  • Hands-on exercises. We are far from any type of simulation or static content; Avatao provides real applications to train with and focuses both on exploitation and code fixing.
  • It is a great option for remote security training.
  • The modules represent real-life issues, which is an advantage.
  • They could implement Ruby in the exercises.
It is good for overall security training. They allow you to target the training for many different tech stacks. The platform gives you much more than a video or tutorial. The core concept seems to be learning by doing, and that works pretty well. I haven't met any scenario where the platform is less appropriate.
  • Using the platform for us was a first step in teaching secure code best practices on a large scale.
  • Implementing training increases overall security within the company.
  • Our security culture evolves by doing trainings on a regular basis.
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