Manicode Security is a secure coding education company focused on helping developers and AI-assisted engineering teams produce safer software. Its portfolio combines live instruction, downloadable training, public talks and webinars, and a secure coding prompt library designed to improve how both humans and AI systems build code. The company emphasizes practical application security education rather than abstract awareness training.
Manicode Security centers its curriculum on modern software risks across web applications, APIs, frontend frameworks, identity, cloud, DevSecOps, and AI security. Its training approach uses customizable modules, hands-on demonstrations, code review, and real-world defensive engineering practices so teams can apply lessons directly to production development workflows.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Manicode Security delivers customizable secure coding education for web, API, mobile, native, cloud, and AI-driven development environments. Its training catalog covers core application security, authentication and access control, frontend security, cryptography, cloud security, Kubernetes, incident response, secure SDLC practices, and emerging AI and agentic security topics.
Beyond instructor-led training, Manicode Security offers downloadable learning and a model-agnostic prompt library built for major AI coding assistants. Those prompts are organized across backend frameworks, client-side frameworks, authentication, authorization, cryptography, infrastructure, secrets management, mobile, and AI security use cases, giving teams a repeatable way to steer code generation toward secure defaults.
Products and Services
- Live Training & AI Security Courses: Instructor-led secure coding and AI security training delivered through customizable live sessions for development and security teams.
- Secure Coding AI Prompts: A model-agnostic library of secure coding prompts for AI coding assistants that helps teams generate code with stronger security defaults across multiple frameworks and environments.
- Talks, workshops, and events: Public and private speaking sessions, workshops, and event appearances focused on application security, frontend security, OWASP-aligned practices, and AI-assisted secure development.
- Ironclad Development: Building Secure Web & Web Service Applications: Hands-on secure coding course covering web and web service application defenses, including HTTP security, API security, injection risks, authentication, access control, and related AppSec fundamentals.
- AI-Assisted Python Secure Development Training Curriculum: A modular secure development curriculum focused on AI-assisted software creation, combining AI security topics with threat modeling, authentication, testing, cloud security, and compliance-oriented instruction.
- Mastering OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect: Advanced training on secure use of OAuth 2.0, OAuth 2.1, and OpenID Connect for web applications, APIs, mobile applications, and microservices.
- Securing React Applications: Framework-specific training for React teams covering browser security, XSS defenses, React security mechanisms, common implementation mistakes, and hands-on labs.
- Introduction to Cloud Security: Azure or AWS: Cloud security course introducing secure architecture, identity, infrastructure, and operational security concepts for either Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services environments.
- Application Security for Managers: Management-focused course that connects secure SDLC, threat modeling, procurement, compliance, and investment planning to application security program leadership.
- Application Security for User Interface Developers & Designers: Frontend-oriented training focused on secure user interface design, XSS defense, content security policy, and framework-specific client-side risks.
- Securing Angular Applications: Specialized training for Angular teams focused on framework-specific web security considerations and defensive implementation practices.
- Web Application Security Fundamentals: Foundational course covering core concepts, common attack classes, and defensive principles for modern web application security.
- Securing Modern REST APIs in NodeJS / Spring Boot: API security training centered on securing REST services built with NodeJS or Spring Boot, including design, implementation, and common attack paths.
- Introduction to Azure Security: Course on building and deploying secure software in Microsoft Azure, with emphasis on identity, access management, network security, data protection, and monitoring.
- Introduction to AWS Security: Course on developing and deploying secure applications in Amazon Web Services, including IAM, VPC security, data protection, and hardened cloud infrastructure basics.
Target Customers
Manicode Security targets software developers, architects, security professionals, DevSecOps engineers, and broader software teams responsible for building and maintaining modern applications. Its offerings are relevant to organizations developing web, API, mobile, frontend, cloud-native, and AI-enabled systems that need practical security education tied directly to engineering work.
The company also serves leaders who need to strengthen secure SDLC practices and teams that want to improve AI-assisted development workflows. Its role-specific mix of manager, frontend, API, cloud, and advanced AppSec training makes it suitable for organizations that want security guidance embedded into day-to-day software delivery rather than treated as a separate compliance exercise.
Key People
- Jim Manico: Founder
- Philippe De Ryck: Advanced Web Security Instructor
- Jerry Hoff: Application Security Architecture and Process Instructor
- Jimmy Mesta: Kubernetes, DevOps and Cloud Security Instructor
- Sven Schleier: Advanced Mobile Security Instructor
- Yiannis Pavlosoglou: CISO and Resilience Instructor
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Anahola, Hawaii, United States
- Employees: Approximately 4 employees
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No (privately held)
