Hack The Box rolls out new tools to address cyber workforce gaps

NEW YORK — Hack The Box (HTB) is expanding its cyber readiness platform to help organizations identify gaps, evaluate team performance and strengthen organizational resilience. By combining hands-on Security Operations Center (SOC) training, crisis simulations, artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented learning assistance and workforce intelligence capabilities in one platform, HTB enables organizations to develop and validate readiness across analysts, teams and security operations functions. Since the acquisition of Let's Defend, HTB has expanded its offensive, defensive and purple-team training capabilities to help organizations improve collaboration across security teams while strengthening incident response and crisis preparedness. “As the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, CISOs face pressure to ensure their teams are ready to respond to complex risks,” said Haris Pylarinos, founder and CEO of Hack The Box. “The nature of security work is changing quickly, and teams are being asked to do more than ever before. Security leaders need a clear view of the cyber capabilities their organization requires, how those requirements map to existing in-house skills, and where the most critical gaps remain. Our new capabilities enable CISOs to build a strategic cyber readiness plan across teams, roles and response functions, giving leaders greater confidence in their ability to prevent, detect and respond to attacks.”

New capabilities include:

• SOC Range – Enables organizations to build and assess analyst readiness through realistic SOC investigations, response workflows and security operations scenarios. Combined with HTB's Threat Range exercises, these capabilities create a progression from individual skill-building to team-based SOC readiness.
• Crisis Control – Delivers crisis simulations that combine technical investigations with executive decision-making exercises, helping organizations identify gaps and validate response capabilities before a real-world incident.
• HTB Coach – AI-augmented learning assistance for real-time guidance, explanations and knowledge reinforcement to accelerate cybersecurity skill development.
• Enterprise Workforce Development and Curriculum Management – Provides organizations with greater flexibility to deliver structured or self-directed learning while tracking progress, skills development and readiness across teams.