What is our primary use case?
I use the platform for learning cyber security topics. I find the weekly boxes a solid way to both have fun and expand knowledge.
The new seasonal competition is an excellent drive to keep users playing with weekly boxes.
I also practiced with ProLabs. ProLabs are labs that simulate real-world infrastructure scenarios. I have played with Dante, Zephyr, and Cybernetics ProLabs so far, and the experience has been great.
The ProLabs are and excellent testbed for real-word PT activity but also an excellent proving ground for professional certification.
How has it helped my organization?
My organization has a collaboration with Hack The Box, allowing me and my colleagues enterprise account. This improved a lot for me and my colleagues. Not only for boxes and challenges, but the ProLabs were definitely on the spot with the working activity.
ProLabs, in fact, digs into real-world enterprise scenarios, from web exploitation to Active Directory exploitation. It's not easy to find another online training platform, such as Hack The Box, that lets you play with this scenario.
On top of that, they provide an excellent staff that helps you in case of issues during lab time.
What is most valuable?
The feature I like the most are weekly boxes. They provide an excellent training ground for hacking, and most of all, they provide the widest range of possible topics.
From web application exploitation to OS exploitation, even some mobile exploitation examples.
The seasonal challenge, which is based on the weekly boxes release, will keep you locked in completing boxes. Most of the time, this translates into hours of research and studying, but in my opinion, this is actually the fun part of it all.
What needs improvement?
My only complaint is regarding the ranking system. I find it really hard to jump from one level to another. To accomplish this, you need to have a long streak of completing boxes because even if you hacked the weekly released box and you got the points, as soon as the box is retired (after some months), you lose all the current points, and the progress jumps back. While there has to be a balance of completed boxes and ranking level, Hack The Box should consider a ranking system that penalizes fewer users who cannot have long active streaks of doing boxes.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Hack The Box for more than five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
They have been good with stability. I never have issues that prevent me from using the platform.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
They are good at scaling. Hack The Box is a global-scaled platform that has a high number of users.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service has been good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I tried other solutions. However, they did not fit my expectations of training.
How was the initial setup?
The setup was 100% easy to understand.
What was our ROI?
Hack The Box is a platform that allows anyone to learn and improve skills. And this translates into having the skills needed for daily job scenarios.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The best part of Hack The Box is that even if you cannot afford it, you can play and learn for free. If you want to access some pay features, such as ProLabs, my advice is to understand which ProLabs are more suited to your training objectives.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I tried other platforms. That said, eventually, I ended up using Hack The Box only as it offers a better variety of challenges.