This section contains detailed reviews and experience feedback from professional cybersecurity certifications offered by Altered Security, focusing on Red Team operations and advanced evasion techniques.
Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP)
The CRTP certification provides comprehensive training in Red Team operations within Active Directory environments. Founded by Nikhil Mittal, a globally recognized expert in AD Red Teaming, this certification covers offensive security tactics including lateral movement, privilege escalation, domain dominance techniques, and persistence mechanisms. The course includes hands-on labs simulating real-world enterprise AD infrastructures, teaching tools and methodologies for compromising multi-domain forests. Priced at 300, the certification emphasizes practical skills using PowerShell-based attack frameworks and modern C2 infrastructure like Sliver.
Certified Red Team Expert (CRTE)
Building upon CRTP foundations, the CRTE certification advances knowledge in multi-forest Active Directory environments with enhanced focus on operational security and evasion. This $300 certification teaches techniques for bypassing modern security solutions including Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), and Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) through advanced obfuscation of binaries and PowerShell scripts. The course emphasizes sophisticated opsec practices, cross-forest trust exploitation, and maintaining stealth while conducting Red Team operations across complex enterprise environments with multiple security layers.
Certified Azure Red Team Professional (CARTP)
The CARTP certification focuses on offensive security operations in cloud environments, specifically Azure and Entra ID (formerly Azure AD). This $450 certification covers two-tenant scenarios involving managed identities, key vaults, web applications, service principals, blob storage, and various Azure-specific attack vectors. Students learn to exploit cloud misconfigurations, abuse service principal permissions, extract secrets from key vaults, and move laterally across Azure resources. The course provides comprehensive coverage of modern cloud Red Teaming techniques essential for assessing hybrid and cloud-native enterprise infrastructures.
Certified Evasion Techniques Professional (CETP)
The CETP certification delivers deep technical training in bypassing endpoint security controls through Windows kernel-level operations. Requiring high-integrity access for driver loading and kernel communication, this course distinguishes itself with extensive coverage of Windows internals, kernel development, and driver reversing. The curriculum focuses on Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attacks, EDR telemetry collection mechanisms including kernel callbacks and Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), and sophisticated techniques for evading Antivirus and EDR solutions. Unlike similar offerings such as Maldev Academy, CETP provides significantly deeper exploration of kernel architecture and realistic enterprise-level security configurations.