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Introduction For the purposes of training our team for the Collegiate Penetration Team Competition (CPTC) for the 2025-2026 season, as team captain, I was facing the challenge of providing an accurate laboratory range environment that the team could potentially face during the competition. Luckily, my awesome friends ran to my help and all of us together began the planning and building process of out CPTC mock competition range - our goal was to accurately convey a potential modern customer environment with a variation of Windows and Linux servers and other applications. ...

OSCP Preparation Revisited in 2025 Looking back at a stressful year… I wanted to write this because the OSCP was genuinely one of the hardest things I’ve done in my career so far, especially considering where I started - as I had comparably less knowledge than my peers when I began working as a security engineer. When I had obtained the OSCP, I had been in the field for a year and a half, but I learned everything on the job, through real client work, mistakes, panic, and figuring things out as I went. ...