Can gamification unite development and security?

Gamification can help bridge persistent divides between development and security teams by creating engaging, collaborative ways to practice DevSecOps. Security-focused capture-the-flag competitions, particularly attack-defense formats, require developers and security engineers to protect services, exploit opponents’ systems, and preserve application performance, reflecting real operational tradeoffs. Role-playing game concepts can also encourage security professionals to build relationships across an organization, learn about teams’ challenges, and identify security gaps through ongoing dialogue. At UnitedHealth Group, a security advocate program used quest-based exercises involving OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities to motivate engineers to identify and remediate insecure code, with the broader goal of expanding security advocacy and reducing vulnerabilities. By transforming security learning, metrics, and collaboration into game-like objectives, organizations may turn general awareness of security responsibilities into sustained practical participation.

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