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Pentesting Candidate Assessment & Certification

Customer Challenges

For Dark Wolf internal deployment and customers that require the best people, HiringCTF addresses the critical needs to:

Validate Competency

Hire, validate, and evaluate competency across a wide spectrum of cybersecurity disciplines

Streamline Hiring

Optimize and accelerate the talent evaluation and acquisition process for subject matter experts

Guarantee Skills

Achieve guaranteed competency in very specific penetration testing disciplines

We offer HiringCTF, which provides a tailorable and repeatable platform for evaluating cybersecurity professionals prior to hire.

HiringCTF is a web-based, Capture-the-Flag (CTF) platform that enables the automatic deployment of a penetration testing scenario for potential hires across Dark Wolf and customer engagements. Those who undergo the HiringCTF spend 4 days completing the scenario, submitting a written report, and receiving formally branded HiringCTF badges and certifications based on their performance.

Features and Benefits

  • Accurate: Provides a real-world assessment through a web-based platform that enables the automatic deployment of a four-day, hands-on penetration testing scenario.
  • Formal Validation of Skills: Delivers credibility through a 3-level achievement program that awards formally branded badges and successful completion status based on performance and a professional written report.
  • Streamlined: Enables hiring and resource evaluation through a proven assessment program used to evaluate prospective hires to ensure competency.
  • Employee Enablement: Supports internal development through a platform that assists in internal training for employees across a wide variety of technologies.

The Dark Wolf Difference​

Unlike traditional interview processes, standardized technical screens, or generic validation programs, HiringCTF is an automated, high-fidelity platform that uniquely combines assessment, formal recognition, and internal training. It enables organizations to measure the return on investment from training. It also allows evaluators to assign and deploy tailored, modular challenges relevant to their systems and mission needs. HiringCTF offers gamification and certification to attract and upskill top-tier talent.

Customer Successes

Dark Wolf uses HiringCTF across our cybersecurity practice for candidate evaluation. It is deployable to customer environments to allow evaluation and hiring of cybersecurity professionals to support any mission. We have used HiringCTF for successful assessment of 300+ penetration testing candidates and used the platform to host the HackSpaceCon CTF event, which is an innovative and dynamic conference bringing together cybersecurity professionals, ethical hackers, and space technology.

Dark Wolf’s Pentesting Candidate Assessment & Certification

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