The cybersecurity industry faces a critical shortage of skilled professionals, with demand for talent far outstripping supply. To bridge this workforce readiness gap, Hack The Box (HTB), a global leader in cybersecurity upskilling, has announced a groundbreaking partnership with LinkedIn. HTB has become LinkedIn Learning's first cybersecurity training labs partner, integrating its hands-on, performance-based labs directly into the learning platform. This collaboration makes practical, threat-informed cybersecurity training more accessible at scale, empowering organizations to build cyber-ready teams by enabling professionals to practice and validate real-world offensive and defensive skills.
Hack The Box is the first cybersecurity labs partner for LinkedIn Learning.
The partnership addresses a 75% YoY increase in demand for cyber skills.
HTB's hands-on labs are embedded directly in LinkedIn Learning courses.
Labs focus on in-demand skills for cybersecurity analyst roles.
The integration requires no additional logins or software for users.
Courses include performance-based assessments to prove real-world competency.
This partnership directly tackles a significant market disparity. While companies are hiring for cybersecurity skills at a dramatically increased rate, the growth of professionals with these skills remains low. By contributing a curated selection from its library of over 1,800 labs, Hack The Box brings its scenario-driven learning to LinkedIn's vast user base. The labs are seamlessly embedded within the course interface, requiring no extra logins, which removes a major barrier to entry and makes advanced, practical training more accessible than ever before.
The core value of the integrated labs is their focus on performance-based assessment. Learners don't just absorb theory; they actively practice and validate real-world operational skills in a controlled, threat-informed environment. Haris Pylarinos, Founder & CEO of Hack The Box, stated, “Through our partnership with LinkedIn Learning, we are integrating HTB Academy’s performance-based, scenario-driven labs into a trusted platform, enabling professionals to build real-world expertise and giving enterprises a trusted way to validate and scale cybersecurity readiness.” This provides enterprises with tangible proof that their upskilling investments are creating job-ready professionals.
The collaboration has a profound enterprise-wide impact, from executives to security analysts. It helps align upskilling with business goals, provides security leaders with structured learning paths, and allows managers to track team progress. Lea Kissner, Chief Information Security Officer at LinkedIn, emphasized the strategic importance, noting that the partnership helps "organizations future-proof their workforce" by guaranteeing that talent can grow and adapt to evolving threats.
The integration of Hack The Box's practical labs into LinkedIn Learning represents a pivotal step in democratizing cybersecurity upskilling. By combining HTB's immersive, gamified training with LinkedIn's massive professional network, this partnership creates a powerful, scalable solution to the industry's most pressing challenge: building a resilient, skilled, and future-ready cybersecurity workforce.
Hack The Box is the leading cybersecurity readiness and upskilling platform, trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises, government organizations and MSSPs to build cyber resilience at scale. Through AI-enhanced intelligence, gamified labs, live-fire simulations and the power of one of the world’s largest cybersecurity communities, Hack The Box helps teams master offensive and defensive skills in the age of AI through real-world scenarios. Founded in 2017, Hack The Box has grown a global community of over 4 million members and 1,500 enterprises, helping organizations validate resilience, mitigate breach risk and develop cyber talent.
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