SANS Software Security Institute
SANS Software Security Institute

SSI Partners

SANS Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. Today, SANS is the most trusted and largest source for information security training and certification in the world. SANS teaches more than 14,000 application and network security practitioners each year and has more than 70,000 alumni and 165,000 practitioners in the SANS community.

The SANS Software Security Institute (SSI) brings that same level of quality, timeliness and trust to developers, programmers and application software security professionals.

SSI focuses the deep resources of SANS on the growing threats to the application layer. SSI provides training, certification and a library of research and community initiatives to help developers, architects, programmers, and application security managers protect their software/Web applications.

SSI programs listed below are designed to teach and enable implementation of the most effective secure coding and software development lifecycle (SDL) practices.

  • Training for Web application security and hacking, secure coding, software security testing, code review and PCI compliance.
  • Language-specific secure coding training for Java/JEE, .NET, C, C#, PHP and others
  • Programmer/Developer Certification (GSSP) through our GIAC affiliate
  • Free research and news resources to keep up to date with the most recent attack vectors and application vulnerabilities