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Licences & Certifications
15+ active credentials spanning offensive security, red team operations, cloud security, and CREST accreditation.
Offensive Security & Red Team
Core Credentials
OSCP
Offensive Security Certified Professional
Offensive Security
Hands-on exploitation, buffer overflows, post-exploitation, and client-side attacks. The gold standard in penetration testing.
Active
OSEP
Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester
Offensive Security
Advanced evasion, custom shellcode, process injection, AV/EDR bypass, and advanced AD attacks in hardened environments.
Active
PACES
Professional Advanced Command & Exploitation Specialist
Pentester Academy
Expert-level Active Directory attacks including forest-level compromises and cross-domain exploitation techniques.
Active
CRTO
Certified Red Team Operator
Zero-Point Security
Cobalt Strike operations, C2 tradecraft, defence evasion, and full red team lifecycle methodology.
Active
CRTE
Certified Red Team Expert
Pentester Academy
Expert-level multi-forest AD attacks, advanced persistence, constrained delegation abuse, and complex trust exploitation.
Active
CRTP
Certified Red Team Professional
Pentester Academy
Active Directory enumeration, domain privilege escalation, lateral movement, and persistence in enterprise Windows environments.
Active
CARTE
Certified Advanced Red Team Expert
Pentester Academy
Advanced tradecraft covering covert operations, advanced C2, and sophisticated evasion in fully-defended enterprise networks.
Active
CARTP
Certified Azure Red Team Professional
Pentester Academy
Azure AD and Microsoft 365 attack techniques: conditional access bypass, PIM abuse, tenant pivoting, and hybrid AD attacks.
Active
Industry Accreditation
CREST Accreditations
CREST CRPT
CREST Registered Penetration Tester
CREST International
CREST-registered status confirms a rigorous, independently-assessed level of penetration testing competency. Required by many enterprise procurement processes and financial regulators including OSFI and FCA.
Active · Verify via CREST Portal
CREST CPSA
CREST Practitioner Security Analyst
CREST International
Foundation CREST accreditation covering infrastructure testing, vulnerability analysis, and security assessment methodology aligned with international standards.
Active · Verify via CREST Portal
Continuing Education
Arturs Stay actively pursues new credentials, particularly in cloud security, AI red teaming, and emerging adversarial tradecraft to remain current with the evolving threat landscape.
Practical Hacking
CTFs & Challenges
Certifications validate methodology. CTF rankings reflect live adversarial problem-solving — finding real vulnerabilities in real machines under time pressure. Both platforms host challenges modelled on production enterprise environments.
Hack The Box
Elite Offensive Security Platform
Hack The Box is the industry-standard platform for offensive security practitioners. It hosts hundreds of retired and active machines ranging from beginner to insane difficulty — simulating real-world Active Directory environments, web applications, binary exploitation, and cloud infrastructure. HTB Pro Labs replicate full enterprise network topologies used in CRTO, CRTE, and PACES-level training.
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TryHackMe
Guided Cybersecurity Learning Platform
TryHackMe is a guided cybersecurity learning platform with structured learning paths covering web application security, network exploitation, Active Directory attacks, red teaming, and OSINT. It bridges the gap between conceptual knowledge and hands-on exploitation, with rooms specifically aligned to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and real-world attack scenarios used in enterprise penetration testing engagements.
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