HackTheBox

Hack The Box operates a cyber readiness platform offering hands-on cybersecurity training, labs, and simulations for both individuals and organizations, built around more than 1,500 gamified, hands-on labs and capture-the-flag competitions. Rather than lecture-based training, the platform’s model is learning by doing — attacking and defending realistic, vulnerable systems in a safe environment — which has built one of the largest and most engaged communities in the cybersecurity training space.

Founded in 2017 with a primary base in Greece and roughly 300 employees globally, Hack The Box has grown to 4.3 million platform members and is backed by investors including Carlyle, Paladin Capital Group, and Marathon Venture Capital. The company was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave for Cybersecurity Skills Training in Q1 2026, and has extended its positioning toward what it calls “the agentic era,” battle-testing both human security professionals and AI agents against the same hands-on challenges.

Enterprise security skills training and talent development is a durable, growing need as the cybersecurity talent gap persists globally, and Hack The Box’s differentiation is community scale and gamified engagement built over nearly a decade, evidenced by independent analyst recognition (Forrester) rather than only vendor claims. It serves Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and MSSPs, though the platform’s core value — like most training tools — depends on organizational commitment to actually using it consistently.