Certifications

HTB Certified Penetration Testing Specialist (HTB CPTS) is a highly hands-on certification that assesses the candidates’ penetration testing skills. HTB Certified Penetration Testing Specialist certification holders will possess technical competency in the ethical hacking and penetration testing domains at an intermediate level. They will also be able to assess the risk at which an infrastructure is exposed and compose a commercial-grade as well as actionable report.

The Certified Red Team Professional is a completely hands-on certification. To be certified, a student must solve practical and realistic challenges in our fully patched Windows infrastructure labs containing multiple Windows domains and forests. The certification challenges a student to compromise Active Directory by abusing features and functionalities without relying on patchable exploits. Students will have 24 hours for the hands-on certification exam.

HTB Certified Web Exploitation Specialist (HTB CWES) is a highly hands-on certification that assesses the candidates’ web application pentesting and bug bounty hunting skills. HTB Certified Web Exploitation Specialist certification holders will possess technical competency in the web application penetration testing and bug bounty hunting domains at an intermediate level. They will also be able to assess the risk at which a web application, service, or API is exposed and compose a commercial-grade as well as actionable report.

HTB Certified Defensive Security Analyst (HTB CDSA) is a highly hands-on certification that assesses the candidates’ security analysis, SOC operations, and incident handling skills. HTB Certified Defensive Security Analyst (HTB CDSA) certification holders will possess technical competency in the security analysis, SOC operations, and incident handling domains at an intermediate level. They will be able to spot security incidents and identify avenues of detection that may not be immediately apparent from simply looking at the available data. They will also excel at thinking outside the box, correlating disparate pieces of data, pivoting relentlessly to determine the maximum impact of an incident, and creating actionable security incident reports.

A Certified Ethical Hacker is a skilled professional who understands and knows how to look for weaknesses and vulnerabilities in target systems and uses the same knowledge and tools as a malicious hacker, but in a lawful and legitimate manner to assess the security posture of a target system(s). The Certified Ethical Hacker credential certifies individuals in the specific network security discipline of Ethical Hacking from a vendor-neutral perspective.