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Summary With the introduction of Tamper Protection, it has now become harder to disable Defender settings as an adversary. This is due to...

Back in 2012, I started teaching about Red Team, Penetration Testing, Active Directory Security and Offensive PowerShell. I did a couple of workshops at BlackHat plus some private classes and quickly identified there is a lack of a lab environment that is affordable, easy to access, has multiple connected machines and is fun to solve! I started using a cloud hosted lab environment in my classes and they were very popular! There was always a demand for access to the labs but I

UPDATED - 28th January 2026 If you are reading this, I assume that you already hold one of our red team training certifications - CRTP, CRTE, CETP, PACES (now CRTM), CESP - ADCS, CARTP or CARTE. As detailed in the blog post here - https://www.alteredsecurity.com/post/redlabs - We ran the certifications with Pentester Academy (acquired by INE in October 2021). Our reseller contract with them ended on 15th January 2023 and now we offer these under our branding! All of our cert