Hack The Box collaborates with LinkedIn Learning to bridge cybersecurity skills gap

Hack The Box (HTB) has embarked on a partnership with LinkedIn Learning. This collaboration makes HTB LinkedIn Learning’s first cybersecurity training labs partner.

Recent data from LinkedIn reveals a pressing issue: a growing cybersecurity talent gap. While demand for cybersecurity expertise has risen by 75% in the past year, the number of professionals indicating such skills on LinkedIn profiles has increased by 4%. This disconnect highlights the importance of the HTB-LinkedIn partnership in making comprehensive, hands-on cybersecurity education widely accessible.

HTB, hosting over 1,800 labs dedicated to practical cybersecurity education, will integrate a selection of labs into the LinkedIn Learning platform under the HTB Academy banner. These labs will focus on cybersecurity skills, aiming to facilitate a realistic, role-based learning experience.

The design of these training labs aims to strengthen enterprise readiness through performance-based, scenario-driven learning. This seeks to empower organisations to bridge skills gaps, ultimately creating cyber-ready teams equipped for today’s dynamic threat landscape.

Users accessing these integrated resources can complete hands-on exercises to build offensive and defensive cybersecurity skills. By embedding HTB labs into the course interface, learners gain direct access without needing additional logins or platforms.

“Through our partnership with LinkedIn Learning, we are integrating HTB Academy’s performance-based, scenario-driven labs into a trusted platform, enabling professionals to build real-world expertise and giving enterprises a trusted way to validate and scale cybersecurity readiness,” noted Haris Pylarinos, Founder & CEO of Hack The Box.

Courses starts with a performance assessment, attesting to the learner's competence and allowing businesses to validate the success of their upskilling investments in producing job-ready personnel.

Lea Kissner, LinkedIn's Chief Information Security Officer, stated that blending practical skills development into LinkedIn Learning would aid organisations in future-proofing their cybersecurity teams.

The impact extends across enterprise levels, from the C-suite to Security Operations Centers (SOCs). Reducing the skills gap supports structured, role-based learning aligned with business objectives.

Recognised by Forrester for their leadership in practical cybersecurity upskilling, both HTB and LinkedIn continue to facilitate accessible workforce readiness. HTB provides gamified labs with enterprise-level scalability, supporting ongoing training across both offensive and defensive cybersecurity domains.