Cybersecurity awareness training for developer teams

Build lasting security awareness with hands-on cybersecurity training that turns real attack scenarios into practical lessons for your team.

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Hack the Bank

What is Hack the Bank?

Hack the Bank is a cinematic, hands-on cybersecurity training for developers, engineers, and other IT professionals. Through our online platform and live sessions, participants step into the role of a hacker to exploit real-world vulnerabilities before learning how to defend against them. No prior security background required.

Our 'learn by doing' approach blends storytelling, gamification and practical labs that simulate production systems indistinguishable from reality. The result: deep, lasting understanding and a new standard in developer security awareness.

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Featured tracks

Some of the tracks in our program

Operation Bits n Bites

A live money-laundering operation hidden inside a food delivery app: rise through the ranks to find out who's behind the suspicious looking restaurants.

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The Human Factor

No exploit needed, just a convincing story. The Human Factor is where you learn to breach a system by breaching its people.

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Skyfall - Breach in the Cloud

A fast-growing AI company with an Arceus cloud environment held together by assumptions. Break in, escalate, and decide how the story ends.

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Our Learning Experience

The Grid

Meet Sine Nomine, the hacker's syndicate. If laws do not bring justice, they will do it from the shadows.

Live Session

A competitive, engaging event designed to build team security muscle through hands-on scenarios.

Events

Join us for our upcoming events and workshops to enhance your skills.

Training contents

Eliminate OWASP-10 & Known Vulnerabilities in your code base

Covers all of the OWASP-10 vulnerabilities
Advanced Persistent Threats crash course
Defensive programming labs for secure coding
A top-rated security awareness live session

Real Life Scenarios

Relive the biggest breaches

In Hack the Bank we reconstructed real-world crisis scenarios based on the biggest and wildest hacks of the last decade.

The Adobe breach in 2013 where usernames and passwords were accessed through a SQL injection bug in Adobe ColdFusion.
The Facebook bug bounty vulnerability in 2014 where users found an XML external entities vulnerability within a PHP page hosted on Facebook servers.
The VMware vulnerability in 2025 where a user could gain database access through a blind SQL injection bug in Avi Load Balancer.

Our simulations of these historic breaches challenge your reflexes and assumptions about cybersecurity. Learn from their mistakes without suffering the real-world consequences these organizations faced.

Awareness modules

The Grid

Online Learning Platform

OWASP-10 Expert
APT: Advanced Threats
Injection & XSS
Cryptographic Failures
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Hack the Bank

Live Session

Available at Month 3
Includes Food & Drinks
Apply and Test Learned Skills
Competitive Format
Unforgettable experience

Session Only

Hack the Bank - Live Session

Our Live Session is also available separately. Book through our website's self-service portal.

Tailored online introduction
Self-service booking possible
No subscriptions

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BESTMIX Software

It was a great pleasure to receive your team at our location in Maldegem during our BESTMIX Creator Days. Hack the Bank was a big success and I would like to congratulate all participants on their heist, especially our winning team 'Th3Fr4nk' & 'PAKWER'.

Bob Klein Goldewijk - Senior Architect

Voys

Relevant for anyone interested in cybersecurity. It's educational and fun.<script>alert('xss')</script>

Anonymous

4.5

Staad

I really enjoyed it and found it super interesting! Learned new ways of hacking, haha!

Anonymous

BESTMIX Software

Your formula combines learning with fun and competition, which makes it very powerful. Learning about risks and creating security awareness while completing a tough challenge in an exhilarating atmosphere. All in all, a great experience!

Anonymous

AFAS Software

Always had the theory in my head, but was never able to practice it. Interested in more.

Anonymous

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What topics do you cover in Hack the Bank?

We cover critical web security topics including Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection (SQLi), XML External Entity (XXE) attacks, Path Traversal exploits, Prompt Injection, Insecure Deserialization, Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR), and Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF).

Can we do Hack the Bank privately on-site?

Yes, Hack the Bank can be conducted as a private event within your organization. Please contact us for more details.

Can we do Hack the Bank with more than 24 players?

Yes, Hack the Bank is also designed for large groups and organisations. However, the live session is intended for teams of up to 24 players to ensure a balanced and engaging experience. Larger groups will be split.

Do I need to be a developer to play Hack the Bank?

No, Hack the Bank is designed for all skill levels. Whether you're a developer or not, you can contribute to your team's success. To ensure fairness during the live session, we pair players based on their skill level.