Turn developers into security-minded builders
Hack the Bank gives software teams realistic breach scenarios, hands-on exploitation labs, and a live team challenge that makes secure coding stick.
Realistic systems. Practical exploits. No passive slide decks.
Program at a glance
- 10
- OWASP topics
- 146+
- Labs and challenges
- 60
- Guided study hours
- 5
- Breach scenarios
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Teams remember the risks because they exploit, fix, and discuss them in realistic systems.
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.
A complete awareness program, not a one-off lecture
Combine The Grid's online learning platform with the Hack the Bank live session to move teams from theory to applied defensive thinking.
Most complete package
The Grid + Hack the Bank Live Session
The Grid
Online Learning Platform
- OWASP Top 10 learning paths
- Advanced threat crash courses
- Injection, XSS and cloud scenarios
- Secure coding labs with realistic systems
- Revisit lessons any time
Hack the Bank
Live Session
- Guided on-site team challenge
- Food and drinks included
- Apply learned skills under pressure
- Competitive heist format
- Memorable team-building experience
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Our Learning Experience
Brochure
See the full training journey
Download the brochure for the program structure, live-session details, learning outcomes, and practical fit for your team.
Teams remember the lesson because they lived the breach
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'.
Voys
Relevant for anyone interested in cybersecurity. It's educational and fun.
Staad
I really enjoyed it and found it super interesting! Learned new ways of hacking, haha!
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!
AFAS Software
Always had the theory in my head, but was never able to practice it. Interested in more.
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