Reviews

• William Ivy - 2017 Alumni, New York City

  I have to say it's the most in-depth course I've ever been a part of. You can tell that the course instructor Matthew is not only passionate about what he does, but wants the students to be proficient in the content.

• Sophia McCall - 2017 Alumni, New York City

  Hacker House are absolutely amazing, I completed the Hands-on-Hacking course run by Matthew and it was absolutely fantastic! Matthew was such an amazing, patient instructor and I learnt absolutely tonnes from it. Coming from a Cyber Security degree this course boosted my learning and motivation within the industry leaving me hungry for more! 10/10 for the Hands-on-Hacking course, I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to get an insight into practical ethical hacking a penetration testing skills, when I left this course it left me with a new found confidence with my technical skills as well as an urge to continue my learning as much as I can! Thank you guys!

• Luca Follis and Adam Fish, NYC Alumni

  A captivating combination of the theory and practice of ethical hacking, the Hands on Hacking workshop, immersed students in the tools of cybercriminals as well as the weapons designed by the cybersecurity state such as the NSA and CIA. In a legal, safe, and sandboxed environment we were instructed in how to use the full range of powerful technologies in the hackers toolbox, from open source intelligence to the deployment of payloads to the take over of root servers. Students learn the skills needed to become proficient in offensive cyber-security. The instructor Matthew Hickey is extremely knowledgeable with a wide-expertise in the field of penetration testing. Despite his potentially intimidating knowledge he is warm and approachable. He is keen that students complete modules but also understand the underlying mechanics. Hang on, its going to go fast!

• Camelia Enderby, NYC Alumni

  I have been one of the fortunate people that have had the privilege to attend one of the amazing courses from Hacker House. Coming from a solution and development background I found the course fascinating. The course is run from an ethical hacker psych point which brings in a complete new view of all known security practices (!). The course is hands on and with the wonderful assistance of Mathew, Dragos and Jennifer (every step of the way) by the end of the course your technical comprehension will increase exponentially. I personally left the course with the knowledge that all the best practices I have employed over the years were not sufficient and any new solutions that I will build will take in consideration all the learning from this course. So if your interest is in penetration testing and/or security this course is a necessity if your interest is in development/networks than this course is an eye opening, either way I think this course is beneficial across industry and across technology and no matter what area of IT is your focus point you can learn a lot from it. So thank you again guys and really hope to see you soon!!!

• Glenn Colville, certified Windows enterprise sysadmin

  I had been looking to expand my practical IT security experience and this was by far the best training choice, especially for practical challenge. The theory, practical labs and demonstrations all worked very well together to show me in detail how pen test / ethical hacking is done. Although I struggled to keep up with the demonstrations (can you keep up with the hacking of the mail server free module) I was able to also perform privilege escalation attacks on my own lab environment. Since signing up for the training I saw @hackerfantastic quoted in the UK media about the very recent WannaCry outbreaks. That’s not the only place I have since seen his work on IR / research on other malware outbreaks. He’s out there if you are looking (or even if you aren't looking). I have been impressed by @hackerfantastic skills of breaking into a wide variety of OSes and devices. His passion to spread the ethical hacking ways is clear from his teaching in the courses. If you are also looking to improve your skills and knowledge from any of IT, infrastructure, DevOps, student, platform or application support backgrounds you will find something useful from Hacker House.

• Chris Jones, Software Engineer

  My Background - I’m software engineer and my job increasingly means being responsible not just for the code but more “sys-admin” type decisions. In addition to this I’ve always felt software teams get next nothing in terms support or training about designing more secure software. It’s always an afterthought. My primary interest was more defensive. The review: In general, the course content was excellent. Matthew was helpful, very knowledgeable and very good at explaining the concepts. What I really found incredibly motivating was seeing the whole context of a hack. In general, as developer you often understand, for example cross-site scripting, and have vague idea of certain dos and don’ts. But it’s only when you see, and do, the whole “hack” that you begin to understand how vulnerabilities can be chained together you begin to “get it” more. The only downside was that the course was too quick for me at times. As someone from a primarily Windows background I’m quite slow on Linux. I would recommend people to brush up on Linux if it’s not their main OS. After all you want to maximise learning about hacking and not how the Linux file system works. I also felt some of the written documentation needed to be a little more idiot-friendly and easier to cut and paste if you get stuck. I did mention it to Matthew and I get the impression it’s something that would be addressed. So, 4 stars and of 5 for me. I’d really recommend the course and came away feeling I understood how it works in real-world and most of all wanting to learn more.

• Rey Bango, Via TrustPilot

  Hacker House helped me to understand how hacking works. When I wanted to get into security, I tried learning on my own using YouTube, books and some online courses. But I struggled to find the time to focus and build a good cadence for learning. I also missed having someone to ask questions to. So I chose to do an on-site course and found Hacker House. The course was everything I had hoped for. The materials were relevant and offered a great foundation for understanding tooling, methodology and the mindset for pentesting. And the instructor, Mathew, was phenomenal. You could tell he'd been around the block having deep understanding of the tools & materials he was teaching. The course gave me the knowledge I needed to understand how hacking happens and how to position myself to continue learning new techniques. I highly recommend Hacker House for their quality and commitment to helping their students be successful.

• Jay Smith, Via TrustPilot

  Great intro so far to pentesting methodologies, I'm only a week in but have found the first two modules to be very informative without bogging down or injecting a bunch of unneeded fluff to expand content.

• Eugene Metreveli, Via TrustPilot

  Hands-on-Hacking course from Hacker House should become the next industry recognised standard. So far it's the most practically applicable course I had for IT security. Recommended it to all my colleagues.

• Mike Motta, Via TrustPilot

  The best hands-on training I have found so far! I have been to several classes that seem to discuss a lot of theory, but don’t get into the “how to” as this course does! I have learned more through this course using the online material on my own machine and my own time, than any classroom environment I have been in. Great Job!!!