Hack The Box is a cyber readiness software company that helps people and organizations build, validate, and apply real-world security skills through hands-on practice. Its platform combines guided learning, unguided labs, competitive exercises, and simulation-based assessments so users can develop offensive, defensive, and incident response capabilities in environments that mirror modern attack conditions.
Hack The Box serves individual learners, enterprise security teams, public sector programs, and academic institutions through a product suite spanning training, readiness measurement, crisis simulation, career enablement, and talent workflows. Its current direction extends beyond human skill development into AI-focused testing and benchmarking, giving customers a controlled way to evaluate both practitioners and AI agents used in cyber operations.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Hack The Box organizes its capabilities around workforce development, readiness validation, and talent outcomes. Customers can progress from foundational instruction to hands-on practice, team exercises, and hiring workflows within one ecosystem, while managers use centralized administration, curated learning spaces, live analytics, and reporting to run structured cyber development programs.
Its enterprise offering supports framework-aligned skills programs, cloud and enterprise attack simulations, and executive-to-technical crisis rehearsals. Hack The Box also supports integrations that simplify adoption, including AWS Marketplace procurement, Azure-based single sign-on and deprovisioning, and LTI 1.3 connections to learning platforms such as Canvas, Moodle, and Brightspace.
Products and Services
- HTB Academy: Guided cybersecurity learning environment with modules, paths, hands-on exercises, skills assessments, and certification-linked job-role progression across offensive, defensive, and general security topics.
- Hacking Labs: Hands-on practice environment built around machines, challenges, Sherlocks, tracks, and beginner-friendly starting content for continuous offensive and defensive skill development.
- Pro Labs: Advanced enterprise-style penetration testing labs designed to simulate complex attack paths and realistic red team scenarios.
- Capture The Flag: Competitive CTF platform for individual and team events, used for skill benchmarking, internal exercises, community competitions, and hosted organizational hacking events.
- InfoSec Careers: Career-focused service that connects users to cybersecurity job opportunities and helps translate platform performance into hiring visibility.
- Enterprise Platform: Centralized business platform for administering users, labs, spaces, analytics, reporting, and talent workflows across Hack The Box workforce development offerings.
- Threat Range: Team-based live-fire simulation environment for SOC, DFIR, and incident response readiness, with realistic telemetry, operational KPIs, and structured reporting workflows.
- Crisis Control: AI-powered cyber crisis and tabletop exercise service that helps technical and non-technical stakeholders rehearse breach scenarios, decision-making, and coordinated response.
- Talent Search: Recruiter and hiring capability that lets organizations identify cybersecurity candidates using validated platform performance, skills evidence, and candidate matching workflows.
- HTB AI Range: Controlled AI cyber range for testing, benchmarking, training, and improving autonomous security agents and human-AI cyber workflows.
- Dedicated Labs: Isolated enterprise lab environments that give teams curated access to offensive and defensive content for training, practice, and candidate evaluation.
Target Customers
Hack The Box targets organizations that need measurable cyber capability, including enterprise security teams, public sector organizations, MSSPs, consulting firms, universities, and internal leaders responsible for onboarding, benchmarking, and resilience. Its solutions are especially relevant for red, blue, and purple teams, as well as SOC, DFIR, and incident response functions that must prove readiness under pressure.
On the individual side, Hack The Box serves aspiring cybersecurity practitioners, students, career changers, penetration testers, defenders, security researchers, and experienced professionals pursuing deeper specialization. It also addresses recruiters and hiring teams that want to assess candidates using demonstrated practical performance rather than relying only on resumes or conventional credentials.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Hack The Box maintains an AWS Marketplace seller presence, including procurement paths for offerings such as Crisis Control.
- Microsoft Azure: Hack The Box supports Azure SSO for Enterprise Platform access, including company-domain login and automated deprovisioning tied to Azure group membership.
Key People
- Haris Pylarinos: Founder & CEO
- Gibb Witham: President
- Nikos Fountas: Chief Operations Officer
- Gerasimos Marketos: Chief Product Officer
- Konstantinos Dollkas: Chief Technology Officer
- Tom Fernandez: Chief Revenue Officer
- Christine Bartlett: Senior Vice President Marketing
Key Facts
- Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom
- Employees: 300+
- Annual Revenue: £24.78M
- Parent Company: Octachoron Bidco Limited
- Subsidiaries: Hack The Box Inc.; Hack The Box SMPC; Hack The Box Pty Ltd.
- Publicly Listed: Not publicly listed
Analyst Recognitions
- Forrester: Leader in The Forrester Wave: Cybersecurity Skills and Training Platforms, Q1 2026. Included in Forrester’s Cybersecurity Skills and Training Platforms Landscape, Q4 2025.
