Blackstorm Security certifications exist to prove one thing: that a professional who attended our training can actually do the work, not merely recognise the terminology. Every exam is entirely practical, and the passing score is 75%.

How the Exam Works

  • Format — offline. The exam is sent directly to the student, who works on it in their own environment.
  • Time to complete — 30 days from the moment the exam is delivered.
  • Tasks — no multiple choice. Students analyse real artifacts, write working exploits, and build the environments needed to do so.
  • Final report — the decisive component. Students must document how each task was solved, in full technical detail: what was found, how, why the approach worked, and what the evidence was.

What It Proves to an Employer

A candidate holding one of these certifications has demonstrated, under their own name and within a fixed deadline, that they can take an unfamiliar problem, build the environment to attack it, solve it with working code, and then explain the whole chain of reasoning in writing.

That last part matters more than it may appear. In this field the analysis is only half the job — a finding that cannot be communicated clearly is worth very little to an employer or a client. Requiring a full written report is deliberate, and it is the reason these certifications say something a multiple-choice exam cannot.

Prerequisite: attendance on the corresponding Blackstorm Security course.

Available Certifications

Nine certifications across four disciplines. Each card lists the courses its exam covers.

The two mobile certifications are separate on purpose. iOS and Android are different platforms with different tooling, and a researcher who specialises in one should be able to prove it without sitting an exam on the other.

Threat Hunting

Professional

Threat Hunter Professional

  • Malicious Document Analysis
  • Network Threat Analysis
  • I.R. and Threat Hunting 1
Expert

Threat Hunter Expert

  • I.R. and Threat Hunting 2
  • Ransomware Investigation

Reverse Engineering

Associate

Reverse Engineering Associate

  • Malicious Document Analysis
  • Malware Analysis 1
Professional

Reverse Engineering Professional

  • Malware Analysis 2
Expert

Reverse Engineering Expert

  • Malware Analysis 3

Mobile

Specialist

iOS Security Research

  • iOS Security Research 1
  • iOS Security Research 2
  • iOS Security Research 3
Specialist

Android Security Research

  • Android Security Research

Exploit Development

Associate

Exploit Developer Associate

  • Exploit Development 1
  • Exploit Development 2
Professional

Exploit Developer Professional

  • Exploit Development 3

To sit an exam, or to ask which certification fits your background, contact us from your corporate email address: contact@blackstormsecurity.com