HTB 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.

HTB Certified Bug Bounty Hunter (HTB CBBH) is a highly hands-on certification that assesses the candidates’ bug bounty hunting and web application pentesting skills. HTB Certified Bug Bounty Hunter certification holders will possess technical competency in the bug bounty hunting and web application penetration testing 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.

HTB Certified Web Exploitation Expert (HTB CWEE) is a highly hands-on certification that assesses candidates' skills in identifying advanced and hard-to-find web vulnerabilities using both black box and white box techniques. HTB CWEE certification holders will possess technical competency in the web security, web penetration testing, and secure coding domains at an advanced level and be well-versed in the application debugging, source code review, and custom exploit development aspects of web security testing. They will also be able to professionally conduct web penetration tests against modern and highly secure web applications, as well as report vulnerabilities found in code or arising from logical errors.

HTB Certified Active Directory Pentesting Expert (HTB CAPE) is a highly hands-on certification assessing candidates' skills in identifying and exploiting advanced Active Directory (AD) vulnerabilities. HTB CAPE certification holders will possess technical competency in both internal and external AD and Windows penetration testing, understanding complex attack paths, and employing advanced techniques to exploit them. HTB CAPE certification holders will demonstrate proficiency in executing sophisticated attacks abusing different authentication protocols such as Kerberos and NTLM and abusing misconfigurations within AD components such as ADCS, WSUS, Exchange, and Domain Trusts. Furthermore, they will be adept at leveraging specialized tools to exploit AD from Linux and Windows and utilizing Command and Control (C2) frameworks for post-exploitation operations.