21.10.2023, 10:08 – Saturday
OBTAINED OSCP CERTIFICATION
I’m happy to share that I’ve obtained a new certification: OffSec Certified Professional (OSCP) from OffSec! It was a tough 24-hour exam penetration-testing challenge. It was a really exciting experience!
I started my exam on Tuesday at 7 a.m. UK London time and finished everything in 7 hours. I had a really bulletproof methodology and wasted no time. I finished the report the same day around 23:50 and uploaded it before midnight, so the whole process took me 17 hours, including the report. Today, I received an email from OFFSEC informing me that I passed, it also included OffSec OSCP Certified Professional Badge, which I’ve proudly linked to my LinkedIn profile ))
My tips on how to pass:
Don’t get demotivated
After you fail, take a break or talk about it with someone, share your experience on Reddit; the feedback you get will push you to work on yourself.
Buy the offsec lab extension, complete ALL the exercises for the bonus points and do all the challenge machines – that’s what I did after my first attempt, – this will take you some time to complete, it took me about 2 weeks, and I was working on it about 8-14 hours a day but it is totally worth it and it will make you a better hacker with bulletproof methodology.
Note everything IT ALL ABOUT THE DETAILS – you changed the directory with “cd”? , used “cp” command or did some quick changes? NOTE IT ALL. Yes, you have to hack the machines and get the proof secret keys, but you also need to produce a detailed report and present how to reproduce the steps you done PRECISELY so if you take screenshots/videos of every step you did to obtain shells and system shells, in the end of the day you will have easy job just copy pasting the screenshots to your report template and adding descriptions to it.
I’ve been doing OSCP for over a year as I’ve been studying it together with my Masters Degree in Cyber Security & Digital Forensics. During that Long journey I’ve completed the whole tryhackme pentesting materials, and almost whole TJ NULL ; HTB machines, PG Offsec machines, and some other labs i’ve found on youtube, I would say about 150 boxes. I’ve also done the old offsec labs before the new 2023 Exam was introduced.
Try Harder & Good Luck,
M