Ethical Hacking Certs Better than OSCP (Updated 2025)

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TryHackMe Jr Penetration Tester:

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TryHackMe Red Teaming:

HackTheBox CPTS: HTB Certified Penetration Testing Specialist (HTB CPTS)

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- INE eCPPT:

- TCM, PNTP:

- Zero Point Security Red Team Ops 1:

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15:52 Important Question

[Aiz]

CPTS is absolute gold. From beginner to over OSCP level in just one cert around 300$. If you are a student, it's even cheaper and gives you access to dozens of practice machines. HTB is just crazy

[PhiveIncognito]

The CPTS path has blown me away. The depth and detail of why and how and strong focus on the actual job is next to none. And for the price its an absolute steal.

[TheFingerboard]

Followed your advice and became SOC Analyst L2 in less that a year, now i want to move up to penetration testing, will definetely follow your roadmap. Amazing content!

[MikengSamuel]

Thanks my Mentor 🙏🏼 your video are always top notch and is a legacy that will forever be. I appreciate everything you do for your community and I will definitely continue to work hard in order to keep your knowledge moving and represent you as well in a positive way.

[seinlinn]

I just earned my CEHv12 Master certification yesterday! Now, I'm planning to pursue CPTS before tackling OSCP. Thank you for your advice and for creating this video it’s been incredibly helpful!

[Gymshaid]

Started the google cyber security cert watching your videos. Wish me luck! Thanks for everything you do.

[Thiccolo]

I just want to thank you, your original video gave me a lot of confidence and hope and I use it as a guy to structure my learning.

[حسن-جب]

I’m in infrastructure operations and wanting to move over to pentesting. I have begun with THM jr pentesting and will complete the others in THM and HTB. I had an interview with a pentesting company yesterday and realised other theoretical courses didn’t give me the skills needed to do well in the interview. Your video is great!

[jlwafu]

Hi Unixguy,

I just want to say a huge thank you for all the guidance on this channel. I followed your cybersecurity analyst roadmap and worked on the projects, and it actually worked! I’m super grateful to have been hired as a SOC Analyst Level 2. I don’t have any prior experience, so I thought I’d start at Level 1, but they gave me a chance. I can guarantee that your roadmaps work. Tomorrow will be my first day and I will further challenge myself by trying this roadmap hoping I can do it for 2-3 years. Please continue helping us cybersecurity enthusiast!

[RedSeaTrader]

93 Comments and you answer all of them, love your effort to help us!!!💪

[ash-]

I have started Google Cybersecurity Certificate course after watching your video on it. I just can't wait to get my career started in cybersecurity! Very excited.
Thanks for the valuable content and guidance❤🙌

[tukaram]

This guy is a boon to the every budding cybersecurity professionals....personally speaking I had lost hope after I saw the prices of all the known certification and the day I landed on this YouTube channel I got my goal and also the path to it.... additionally I would request you to make a dedicated video for SOC analyst "Do's & Don'ts"🙂🙏

[techbiotic]

Thank you Unix guy!! I’m going through the cpts courses and good to know that I’m on the right track!

[PassportBlueprint]

I'm doing the ejpt course right now and its a good course. Might also do the Hack The Box CPTS as well because of the Active Directory portion which the eJOT doesn't have. Great video by the way.

[bibashrai]

I am paying nearly 8000$ dollar of complete 4 years course of Bachelor of Cybersecurity and the collage is only giving two certificate CCNA and CEH in the 58% discount no pratical knowledge only theory based i am really learning more than that from youtube, books and online resources from you sir. which makes really trouble i had payed half money on my university neither i can dropout neither i can continue...

[unmuktyatree]

I seek your comment about CRTP exam, Do you feel CRTP + CPTS can be good knowledge combo to then attack the OSCP exam.Thanks!

[MiguelPiñeiro-ni]

Very nice video man, really informative. Thank you!

[linocatucci]

Thank you very much for this video. I was in doubt to choose which certification to take next, and your video made it very clear. HTB it will be!

[Thegoodbros-]

Though I want to be a cyber defense analyst in the blue team I will do maybe one pen testing cert which would be the THM Jr pen tester cert. I will do a mix of blue team certs, your GRC course and the pen testing cert from THM, that way I have so many skills. Thank you for this video.

[FaLkraydz]

Love this video, love your opinion and completely agree, the only issue is that the HR now needs to start agreeing with us.