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Starting a Career in Information Security
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Aug 4, 2020

3 min read

Starting a Career in Information Security

Considering a career in infosec? Mihai’s experience pursuing the OSCP and OSWE certs can help you determine your next steps. Get inspired with this case study.

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Information Security Training Paths - Offensive Security

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Information Security Training Paths at OffSec

Find out where to start with OffSec’s information security training courses. We outline our learning paths to certification and career development.

Mar 12, 2020

7 min read

OSCP Cheating

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Cheating Attempts and the OSCP

Last week, an individual started to release solutions to certain challenges in the OSCP certification exam. This led to some discussion on Twitter and made it clear to us that there is a fair amount of misunderstanding about what’s on the exam, how we catch cheaters, how many people attempt to cheat, and what happens when they are discovered. In this post, we would like to shine some light on our certification process.

Jan 31, 2019

1 min read

Proctoring OSCP Exams

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Offensive Security Online Exam Proctoring

When we started out with our online training courses over 12 years ago, we made hard choices about the nature of our courses and certifications. We went against the grain, against the common certification standards, and came up with a unique certification model in the field – “Hands-on, practical certification”. Twelve years later, these choices have paid off. The industry as a whole has realized that most of the multiple choice, technical certifications do not necessarily guarantee a candidate’s technical level…and for many in the offensive security field, the OSCP has turned into a golden industry standard. This has been wonderful for certification holders as they find themselves actively recruited by employers due to the fact that they have proven themselves as being able to stand up to the stress of a hard, 24-hour exam – and still deliver a quality report.

Jul 26, 2018

6 min read

Auditing the Auditor - Breaking all the things

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Auditing the Auditor

Some time ago, we noticed some security researchers looking for critical vulnerabilities affecting “security” based products (such as antivirus) that can have a damaging impact to enterprise and desktop users. Take a stroll through the Google Project Zero bug tracker to see what we mean.

Jul 5, 2017

12 min read

Information Security Certifications

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OffSec InfoSec Certifications in the Job Market

A couple of weeks ago we published our comic Try Harder song, praising the OSCP certification and our students in general. It was really well received by our alumni, who related closely to the theme of “Try Harder“. However, there is a more serious undertone to this than meets the eye. Information Security Certifications Mean Little

Feb 2, 2015

3 min read

Bug Bounty Insights

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Bug Bounty Program Insights

With the nature of our business, we at Offensive Security take our system security very seriously and we appreciate the benefits of having “the crowd” scrutinize our internet presence for bugs. For this reason, we recently started our own Bug Bounty Program, which provides incentives for researchers to inform us of possible vulnerabilities in our sites in exchange for cash rewards.

Dec 23, 2013

5 min read

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