Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO) | October 2026
Hands-on certification by Zero-Point Security focused on adversary-style red team operations with Cobalt Strike. The exam requires compromising an enterprise Active Directory environment and reaching the final objective while keeping OPSEC in mind.
Skills covered by the Red Team Ops course:
- C2 operations with Cobalt Strike: listeners, payloads, Beacon and Malleable C2 profiles
- Initial access, host reconnaissance and persistence
- Windows privilege escalation and credential access (Mimikatz, Rubeus, DPAPI)
- Kerberos abuse: Kerberoasting, AS-REP Roasting, delegation and RBCD
- Lateral movement, SOCKS pivoting and port forwarding
- AD CS, LAPS, MSSQL and domain/forest trust abuse
- Domain dominance: DCSync and Golden, Silver and Diamond Tickets
- Defense evasion (AMSI, AppLocker, Microsoft Defender) and operational OPSEC
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OffSec Certified Professional (OSCP / OSCP+) | February 2026
Score: 100/100
Hands-on penetration testing certification earned through a 23-hour and 45-minute practical exam, followed by an additional 24-hour reporting window. The current format assesses three standalone targets and an Active Directory environment using an assumed-breach approach.
Skills covered by the official PEN-200 syllabus:
- Information gathering, service enumeration and vulnerability analysis
- Web application attacks: directory traversal, file inclusion, command injection and SQL injection
- Windows and Linux privilege escalation
- Port redirection, SSH tunneling and pivoting across networks
- Active Directory enumeration, authentication attacks and lateral movement
- Evidence documentation and reproducible technical reporting
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Certified WiFiChallenge Professional (CWP) | July 2026
Hands-on certification focused on wireless network auditing and security through reproducible lab scenarios.
Covered areas:
- Professional WiFi reconnaissance and auditing
- OPN, OWE and WEP networks
- PSK authentication and attacks against personal networks
- MGT / Enterprise networks using 802.1X and RADIUS
- SAE and WPA3 security
- Risk identification and protective measures
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HTB Certified Penetration Testing Specialist (CPTS) | 2025
Professional end-to-end pentesting methodology: web exploitation, network attacks, Active Directory compromise, post-exploitation and executive reporting.
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Malware Development Intermediate | Maldev Academy 2024
Offensive development in C/C++: Windows Internals, process injection, API hooking, reflective DLL loading and EDR evasion techniques.
eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester (eJPTv2) | October 2024
Foundations of ethical hacking, networking, enumeration and vulnerability assessment.
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