The HeroLab is not only used by our own pentesters, but also provides the training environment for our customers during usd Academy events, and is the basis for regularly held Hacker Days for students and universities. Pentesters can train their methodical skills, creativity and endurance in real life pentesting, using a continuously growing number of preconfigured server environments, various technologies and vulnerabilities of varying difficulty levels.
Participants can assess their skills and personal advancement through skill points with an associated ranking function.
Find out more about the HeroLab and how to become a part of the community at https://herolab.usd.de
PCI KMO v1.0: What You Need to Know About the New Key Management Operations Standard
With PCI Key Management Operations (KMO) v1.0, the PCI Security Standards Council is developing an independent standard for the operational management of cryptographic keys for the first time. The background to this is a fundamental change in the payment transaction...



