Cyber security training for corporate teams
BERRY9 runs hands-on cyber security training for corporate teams: secure coding for developers, attack-technique labs for IT and security staff, and tabletop exercises and briefings for incident leads and executives. Each program is planned with you from our Hyderabad office around your own stack, with labs on isolated infrastructure and a skill assessment before and after.
- For
- Developers, IT, SOC, leaders
- Labs
- Isolated, built on your stack
- Progress
- Assessed before and after
- Pricing
- Per cohort, by proposal
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Developers: secure coding labs written in your own language and framework.
IT and SOC staff: the attack techniques they have to recognize, contain and close off.
Incident leads: a tabletop exercise built on a realistic breach scenario.
Leadership: risk, breach response and the questions worth putting to your security team.
01 / Who needs what
Which security training does each team need?
Different people in a company need different security skills. The useful question is what each role builds or decides, and what an attacker could do with a mistake made there.
A single course for the whole company rarely fits: developers, administrators, analysts and leaders each make different decisions, and an attacker exploits different mistakes in each. Most organizations begin with the group whose errors cost the most: for a company that ships software, usually the developers; for one with a large internal estate, the people who administer it; and for every company, the handful of people who would lead the response to an incident.
| Role | What they need to learn | A format that fits |
|---|---|---|
| Developers | How common flaws get written, and how to avoid them in the code they work on every day. The OWASP Top 10 gives the team a shared vocabulary; access control, input handling, secrets and third-party dependencies are where most of the practice goes. | Hands-on secure coding labs |
| Platform, DevOps and SRE teams | How to build security checks into the pipeline: static analysis, dependency and secret scanning, and checks on container images and infrastructure as code. | A pipeline-focused program |
| IT and infrastructure administrators | How an attacker moves from one compromised machine toward control of the network and the Windows domain, so that hardening work goes where it actually matters. | Attack labs on a practice network |
| SOC analysts and incident responders | The attack techniques behind the alerts they triage, so they can recognize them in logs and respond. MITRE ATT&CK is the common reference for naming those techniques. | Adversary emulation labs and tabletop exercises |
| Product managers and architects | Threat modeling: asking what could go wrong with a feature or a design before it is built, and deciding which risks to design out. | A threat-modeling workshop |
| Leadership | Security risk in business terms, how a breach response unfolds, and which questions to ask the people who run security. | A briefing or a tabletop exercise |
02 / Awareness or technical
Security awareness training vs technical training
Awareness training reaches everyone who could click a malicious link. Technical training goes deep with the smaller groups who build, run and defend your systems.
The two are often bought under one name, and both matter, but they solve different problems for different people. BERRY9's programs are the technical kind: hands-on labs for the people who build and run your systems, plus tabletop exercises and briefings for incident leads and executives. If what you need is an all-staff awareness session, say so in your inquiry so the conversation starts in the right place.
Whether awareness holds up against a realistic attempt is a separate question, and a class cannot answer it. A consented social engineering assessment measures how staff actually respond.
| Aspect | Security awareness training | Technical security training |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | Every employee with an email account | Developers, engineers, IT administrators, security analysts and incident teams |
| What it aims at | Spotting phishing, protecting passwords and devices, and reporting anything suspicious quickly | Building, configuring and defending systems so the flaws attackers rely on are absent, or are caught early |
| Typical format | Short sessions, repeated through the year | Hands-on labs, workshops and exercises with real tools and code |
| How progress shows | Fewer people fall for simulated phishing, and more of them report it | Better scores on a skills assessment, and fewer repeats of the same finding in later tests |
Work toward SOC 2, ISO 27001 or PCI DSS will often raise the question of whether staff have been trained for the work they do. Attendance records and assessment results from a program are one kind of answer; what an auditor accepts as evidence is the auditor's call. See SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS for the testing side of each framework.
03 / Programs
Training programs for engineering, security and incident teams
Six kinds of program cover most requests. Each is a starting point, shaped to your stack, to your team's gaps and to what people should be able to do at the end.
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Secure coding bootcamp
Pattern-led labs that mirror your stack: the OWASP Top 10, the pitfalls specific to your framework, and the basics of threat modeling, practiced in code rather than on slides.
DevSecOps integration program
Security tests shifted left into CI/CD: static analysis in the build, dependency scanning, secret detection, container security and scanning of infrastructure as code.
Adversary emulation lab
Hands-on work through reconnaissance, lateral movement, Active Directory attack paths and persistence, so the people defending a network have seen each step from the other side.
Incident response tabletop
A realistic breach scenario walked through with the people who would handle it. The aim is to find the gaps in your process before a real incident finds them for you.
Threat-modeling workshop
A structured session on one of your own features or systems: what it trusts, what could go wrong, and which of those risks to design out first.
Capture-the-flag event
Teams solve security challenges against the clock. It turns practice into a competition and shows quickly where a group is strong and where it needs more time.
Executive briefings are separate content from the engineering tracks: threat-model literacy, how a breach response runs, board-level cyber governance and the questions to ask your security team.
Program length: The length of a program is agreed in the proposal.
04 / Secure coding
Secure coding training for developers
Developers fix most security bugs, and they fix them faster when they have met the bug class before in their own kind of code. That is why the labs are built to look like the codebase people return to the next morning.
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Every cohort gets a curriculum written for it, not an off-the-shelf course. The labs are built in your language, framework and libraries, so developers find real bugs in code that looks like their own and ship real fixes, instead of reading about a generic example that never quite matches their work.
The OWASP Top 10 is the usual starting vocabulary. OWASP publishes it as an awareness document for developers on the most critical security risks to web applications, which makes it a good map rather than a full syllabus: most of the time goes on how each risk shows up in your framework, and how to write the code so it does not.
When you would rather have your own code examined than practice on lab code, a source code review reads it for the same classes of flaw, and web application and API security tests show which of them can be reached from outside.
Topics a developer track can draw on
- Authentication, sessions and tokens, including JWT and OAuth
- Access control: IDOR, BOLA and function-level authorization
- Injection, cross-site scripting, file handling, SSRF and XXE
- API design and the OWASP API Security Top 10
- Android app storage, components and network traffic
- Secret handling and third-party dependencies
- Secure code review, and using static analysis with judgment
- AI features, checked against the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
05 / How it runs
How a team training program runs
A program is designed backward from what the team should be able to do once it ends. Five steps take it from a skills baseline to a plan that keeps the skills in use.
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Step 1
Skill assessment
Before the program starts, each participant's starting skill is assessed. The baseline sets the depth of every module and shows where the cohort's time will pay off most.
OutputA baseline for each participant
Step 2
Curriculum design
The curriculum is written around your stack, the gaps the assessment found and the objectives you set for the program.
OutputA plan for this cohort
Step 3
Lab provisioning
Vulnerable labs are set up on isolated infrastructure that mirrors your stack: the same language, framework and libraries your team uses.
Step 4
Cohort delivery
Live-instructed sessions, lab time participants work through at their own pace, and peer review. The program is practical and hands-on throughout, not a video course.
Step 5
Reinforcement
Each participant is assessed again, managers get a report on the cohort's progress, and a 30, 60 and 90-day plan keeps the new habits in use.
OutputA manager report and a reinforcement plan
Program details
- Where sessions take place: Where sessions take place is agreed in the proposal.
- Group size: The group size is agreed in the proposal. Larger groups can be split into parallel cohorts, and smaller ones combined with in-house mentoring.
- Who teaches: BERRY9's testers teach the programs.
06 / Labs
Hands-on labs on isolated infrastructure
Most of the time in a program is spent in a lab, not listening. The labs are where participants attack, break and repair systems that were built to be broken.
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Isolated from your systems
Attack techniques are practiced only where it is safe to practice them. The labs run on isolated infrastructure BERRY9 provisions for the program, kept apart from your own, so the exercises run against lab machines rather than your systems.
Built like your stack
Each lab holds deliberate flaws of the kinds the program teaches, set in the technologies your team uses: a web application in your framework for developers, a practice network with a Windows domain for infrastructure and security staff.
Reachable from anywhere
The labs are usually cloud-hosted and reached by participants over the internet while the program runs, which means no access to your internal network is needed for training.
Real bugs, real fixes
Participants do not watch someone else find a flaw. They find it themselves, write the fix and check that it holds, which is the part people remember when the next pull request lands.
07 / With testing
Training alongside a penetration test
A penetration test shows where your systems are weak today. Training works on why the same kinds of flaw keep appearing, so the two answer different halves of one problem.
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A BERRY9 test closes with a readout in which the findings are taken through with the engineers who will fix them, and they can question anything that is unclear. A source code review can add pairing sessions, in which the reviewer goes through each fix with your engineers before it ships.
A readout teaches the one team whose system was tested. When the same class of flaw turns up in many places, such as an authorization check missing across dozens of endpoints, the cause is usually a habit rather than a single slip, and a session on that pattern helps every team that writes similar code.
The order can run either way. Testing first gives the training real examples to begin from; training first means the next test shows whether the habits changed.
Web application penetration testing
Shows, in your own application, the kinds of authorization and business-logic mistakes a secure coding track is meant to prevent.
API security testing
Calls your APIs directly as each role, the way the flaws in an API track are found in practice.
Source code review
Reads your code for the patterns developers practice spotting, and points to the file and line of each one.
DevSecOps services
Reviews your own delivery pipeline for the weaknesses a platform team learns about: exposed secrets, over-broad runner access and checks that were switched off.
Every test BERRY9 runs is listed, by group, on the offensive security services page.
08 / Teams and individuals
Team programs and courses for individuals
This page is about training an organization's own staff. People who want to learn security for themselves are served by BERRY9's training division instead.
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BERRY9's cyber security training division is Hacking Trainer Academy, at hackingtrainer.com. Its courses for individuals cover application security (web, API, Android and thick-client), network and Active Directory penetration testing, and SOC analysis with digital forensics and incident response (DFIR).
The programs on this page are different: they are planned for one organization's own staff, around its own stack and goals, and agreed in a written proposal with that organization. Enrollment for individuals is handled by the academy, not through this page.
09 / Plan a program
Plan a training program for your team
Three things let us suggest a program: who will attend, what they work on, and what they should be able to do afterward. The proposal, and the fee, follow from them.
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Send these three things through the inquiry form on our contact page, call +91 86868 92922 or write to contact@berry9.com, and the proposal is built from them.
What we need from you
- A roster: the roles that will attend, and roughly how many people in each.
- A stack overview: languages, frameworks, cloud platforms and the tools in your pipeline.
- Learning objectives: what each group should be able to do when the program ends.
What you receive, and how it is priced
- Custom labs hosted on isolated infrastructure for the length of the program
- Skill assessments for each participant, before and after
- Attendance and progress reports, with a manager report on the cohort
Training is priced per cohort, and the fee is set out in a written proposal together with the scope and deliverables before anything is booked. No starting price is published for training.
10 / FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Short answers about scope, price and how testing works. For anything else, call +91 86868 92922.
What is the difference between security awareness training and technical security training?
Security awareness training is for every employee: short sessions on spotting phishing, protecting passwords and devices, and reporting anything suspicious. Technical training goes deep with the people who build, run and defend systems, such as developers, IT administrators and SOC analysts, through hands-on labs and exercises. Most organizations need both, for different people. BERRY9's programs are the technical kind. See the section on Security awareness training vs technical training above.
Do you offer secure coding training for developers in our own language and framework?
Yes. Each cohort's curriculum is written for it, and the labs use your language, framework and libraries instead of a generic example, so developers find and fix flaws in code that looks like their own. The OWASP Top 10 is the usual starting point, followed by the pitfalls specific to your framework. See the section on Secure coding training for developers above.
Is ethical hacking training suitable for company IT and security teams?
Yes, when the aim is defense. Seeing how an attacker works, from reconnaissance to lateral movement and Active Directory attack paths, helps administrators harden the right things and helps analysts recognize an attack in progress. BERRY9's adversary emulation labs teach these techniques on isolated lab infrastructure, not on your own network. See the section on Training programs for engineering, security and incident teams above.
Is the training on-site or online?
The hands-on labs are usually cloud-hosted and reached over the internet, so they do not depend on where participants sit. Where the live sessions take place is written into the proposal for each program; say what suits your team in the inquiry form on the contact page.
Where do the labs run, and do you need access to our network?
The labs run on isolated infrastructure that BERRY9 provisions for the program, usually cloud-hosted and reachable by participants over the internet while the program runs. No access to your internal network is needed for training labs. See the section on Hands-on labs on isolated infrastructure above.
How much does corporate cyber security training cost?
Training is priced per cohort. The fee depends on how many people attend, which tracks they take, how long the program runs and how much of the lab is built around your stack, and it is set out in a written proposal. No starting price is published for training. To get a proposal, send a roster, a stack overview and your learning objectives through the inquiry form on the contact page. See the section on Plan a training program for your team above.
How do you measure whether the training worked?
Each participant takes a skill assessment before the program and another after it, and completion is tracked module by module. Managers receive a report on the cohort's progress that also names participants who would benefit from follow-up, and a reinforcement plan covers the 30, 60 and 90 days afterward. See the section on How a team training program runs above.
Can training follow a penetration test of our systems?
The two work well together. A BERRY9 test closes with a readout in which the findings are taken through with the engineers who will fix them, and flaws that recur across the findings show which training would help most. To plan a test and a program together, describe both in the inquiry form on the contact page. See the section on Training alongside a penetration test above.
Can the training be tailored for executives?
Yes. Executive briefings are separate from the engineering tracks and cover threat-model literacy, how a breach response runs, board-level cyber governance and the questions to ask your security team. A tabletop exercise can then take the same leaders through a realistic breach scenario. See the section on Training programs for engineering, security and incident teams above.
Can individuals join, or is this only for companies?
These programs are for an organization's own staff. Individuals who want to learn cyber security for themselves can look at Hacking Trainer Academy, BERRY9's training division, which runs courses in application security, network and Active Directory penetration testing, and SOC analysis and DFIR. See the section on Team programs and courses for individuals above.
Plan your next security test
Tell us what needs testing and when you need it done, and we will propose a scope and timeline. We respond within 24 hours. If you would rather talk first, call or write to us.
- +91 86868 92922
- contact@berry9.com
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