Security Innovation, a pioneer in software security assessment and training, today announced new research findings into Blockchain competency levels. While Blockchain is a promising technology, organizations realize there are risk implications that pose new challenges for security and business teams alike.

In April, Security Innovation released its free Blockchain CTF “learn by doing” platform for Smart Contracts.  Analysis of user engagement reveals:

• ~50% percent of users were able to solve more than one of the seven challenges presented; 
• Only 10 percent of users scored 4,000 points – the maximum available;
• The average score was approximately 500 points, or 12.5 percent of the maximum;
• Each user was able to conduct multiple transactions to smart contracts on the testnet Blockchain; and
• Challenges that require users to deploy their own smart contracts were the most difficult for users.