In this post, I will try to review, compare, and contrast two cybersecurity certificates I had the pleasure of passing in the same week: Certified Ethical Hacker v12 and BTL1 from Security Blue Team, which one I would pick if it hadn’t been paid for by my employer, and general tips on how to succeed.

I have had my HackTheBox account for a long time now. Getting close to a decade. For those of you who don’t know, HackTheBox is a training/CTF platform, similar to TryHackMe. It is also a little different, you cannot register a new account without an invite code. You would like an invite code? Sorry, I can’t give you one, and neither can anyone else. To get in, you have to find the invite code generator, use it, and get the code yourself.