OSCP

Author’s note: This article was initially published on Synack’s README. They have great content and I recommend that you browse their articles if you are interested cybersecurity. Editor’s note: This post from Ally Petitt describes her journey towards earning the vaunted OSCP at 16 > and being an active part of the Synack Red Team at 17. Check out Ally’s blog for more of her write-ups > on vulnerabilities she’s discovered, hacking techniques and more....

Wait, you can do that? The answer is a resounding “yes”. And I’m not the only one who got my OSCP at the age of 16. Meet Mihai, Vanshal, Grant, and this person from Reddit. Admittedly, the number of us is few and far between when compared to the typical demographic of OSCP test-takers. To add to this, I’m a woman and I haven’t seen any other women my age do this....

The Pen-200 is the prerequisite course for the OSCP exam. As such, the writeups for the labs are incredibly difficult to find. As someone who has relied heavily on the accessibility of HTB walkthroughs, I’ve never been in an environment where I wasn’t one Google search away from figuring out the next step in solving a box. Needless to say, 0xdf couldn’t help me much with the Pen-200 labs. The Pen-200 labs were a struggle not because I was incompetent, but because I didn’t have enough practice reaching dead ends....