Hack The Box
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| Privately held company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | |
| Founded 📆 | 2017 |
| Founders 👔 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | 38 Walton Road, Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
Key people | |
| Members | 1.7 million (2023) |
Number of employees | 176 |
| 🌐 Website | hackthebox |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Hack The Box is a United Kingdom international company focused on training individuals and businesses around cybersecurity, penetration testing, and bug bounty hunting through gamification[1] and educational technology.[2] The company, in general, follows a freemium model for its services.[3]
The company has developed beginner and advanced cybersecurity courses, simulated penetration testing labs operating on virtual machines, a CTF platform, and offers information security certifications.[4]
The company was founded in 2017 by Haris Pylarinos, Aris Zikopoulos, and James Hooker.[5][6][7]
History[edit]
Hack The Box started as a cybersecurity community for knowledge sharing between members. The community members could test their skills through virtual hacking labs that were developed by the founding team and advanced cybersecurity individuals that were members of the platform.[8] When Hack The Box became an official entity, the company hired several community contributors.
Funding[edit]
The company has received a total funding of $69.5 million, from 3 lead investors.[9][10]
Parrot Security[edit]
Parrot OS[edit]
In 2020, Parrot OS and Hack The Box announced an official partnership. Hack The Box onboarded most of the Parrot team as a way to support the open-source project.[11]
"We agreed to collaborate with Parrot by onboarding a big part of the team now - aiming to onboard more gradually - and commit to investing in the project’s success." - Hack The Box announcement [12]
Pwnbox[edit]
Utilizing Parrot OS, the co-founder and CEO Haris Pylarinos created Pwnbox,[13] A web-browser-based virtual hacking Linux distribution offering the opportunity to Hack The Box users to practice their skills directly from their browsers without the need to set up an offline hacking environment on their personal computers.[14]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Podcasts: Gamification of Ethical Hacking and Esports". delinea.com. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ "How upskilling and training providers help close the cybersecurity skills gap". VentureBeat. 2023-01-11. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
- ↑ "Hack The Box Pricing". Hack The Box. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
- ↑ "All About Hack The Box". Hack The Box. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
- ↑ Butcher, Mike (2021-04-12). "Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box raises $10.6M Series A led by Paladin Capital". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ "Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box raises $10.6M Series A led by Paladin Capital". ca.finance.yahoo.com. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ Lunden, Ingrid (2023-01-11). "Hack the Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M users, raises $55M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
- ↑ Endeavor Outliers S2 E6: Interview with Haris Pylarinos, retrieved 2022-11-28
- ↑ "Carlyle leads $55m Series B investment round in Hack The Box | Carlyle". www.carlyle.com. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
- ↑ Papadopoulos, Panos (11 January 2023). "Hack The Box Raises $55M Series B Led by Carlyle". marathon.vc. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
- ↑ "Parrot OS + HackTheBox". parrotsec.org.
- ↑ "Hack The Box + Parrot OS". Hack The Box. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ "Hack The Box Pwnbox". Hack The Box. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ "Parrot Security". parrotsec.org. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
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