Closing Out 2025 with Gratitude (and Momentum)

To the OffSec community,

As 2025 comes to a close, we want to pause and say thank you. Whether you trained with us, earned a certification, hired through our platform, or cheered others on from the sidelines, you helped make this year one of our most meaningful yet.

This year, we focused on one goal: helping security teams and individual learners build skills that hold up in the real world. Here’s what that looked like in 2025.

In 2025, we continued expanding training that reflects how security work is actually done. We’re especially excited about SJD-100: Secure Java Development Essentials, which gives developers and defenders a practical, hands-on way to build safer software from the start.

We grew our library of guided, job-aligned paths to help learners move with purpose. This year brought new and expanded learning paths in areas like Kubernetes, Cloud Automation, Digital Forensics, LLM Red Teaming, GRC, and our Cybersecurity Survival Guide, helping learners and teams keep pace with a fast-changing landscape.

Our learners ask for realism, and we delivered. Across Proving Grounds, Cyber Ranges, Defensive Labs, and Challenge Labs, we shipped new hands-on environments throughout the year, including content designed to push deeper technical thinking, build confidence, and mirror modern attack-and-defense scenarios.

In October, we launched The Gauntlet: Echo Response, our narrative-driven cybersecurity event built as an escalating, story-based challenge series. It is designed not only to reward real tradecraft, from careful enumeration to calm execution under pressure, but also to bring our community together through shared challenges that push teams to learn, adapt, and raise the bar at every stage. It has quickly become one of the most energizing ways to test yourself and grow alongside others in the OffSec ecosystem. We’re also excited to announce that the next event is coming very soon!

We kept removing friction so learners could spend less time setting up and more time learning. We rolled out product updates to improve content discovery, progress tracking, assessments, achievements, and in-browser learning experiences, and we introduced the OffSec Annual Membership to make long-term skill building simpler and more accessible.

Skills matter most when they lead to real opportunity. That’s why we also introduced OffSec Talent Finder this year. A way for employers to connect directly with verified, OffSec-certified professionals, and for learners to showcase proven capability beyond a résumé bullet. It’s an important step toward closing the gap between training and meaningful security work.

With more learners, more roles, and more learning paths in play, admins needed a clearer picture of what was actually happening across their organization. Throughout the year, we focused on strengthening the Admin Dashboard to surface the signals that matter, from license usage and certifications to content engagement, lab activity, exams, and overall platform use. By bringing these views together in one place, admins gained a more practical way to understand progress, spot patterns, and support their teams as learning scaled.

As OffSec training expanded across enterprise teams in 2025, learning alone was no longer enough. Organizations wanted a clearer way to confirm readiness, benchmark skills, and make informed decisions about where to focus next. That shift is what drove our work on Enterprise Assessments, bringing structured skill evaluation into the Admin Console.

Confidence in a security program comes from knowing skills align with real responsibilities. We released the Job Role Coverage widget in the Admin Dashboard to give organizations more confidence in how skills are developing across critical security roles. Instead of relying only on certifications or course completion, it made it possible to review role alignment through hands-on learning and see how coverage builds across key attack vectors. Over time, it helps admins spot gaps earlier, make more focused training decisions, and ensure expertise is developing where it matters most. It’s a step toward stronger, more deliberate skill planning as teams and threats continue to evolve.

Progress through OffSec continued to grow across certifications, badges, and pins, and at scale, those signals became increasingly scattered. Team Achievements grew out of that need, bringing those signals together so accomplishments aren’t scattered across profiles or dashboards. By looking at achievements collectively, team Admins can better understand where capability is building, where it isn’t yet, and how their training efforts are translating into real outcomes.

Different frameworks play a key role in how teams talk about threats, risk, and coverage. In 2025, we focused on making it easier to connect OffSec training to that shared language. The MITRE ATT&CK Coverage Report gave Admins visibility into how training mapped to specific techniques, which areas were well covered, and where gaps remained. That clarity made it easier to reason about risk, prioritize learning, and ground conversations about preparedness in something concrete.

Before we turn the page on the year, a quick reminder: our end-of-year promo is ending soon. Learn One is 20% off until January 1, 2026, at 12PM ET. If 2026 is your year to level up, now is your moment!

To everyone who spent time with OffSec this year: thank you for trusting us with your growth. You’re the reason we keep raising the bar. We’re already building what comes next, and we can’t wait to share it with you in 2026.

Happy holidays, and as always… Try Harder!