Be the human element in AI hacking with HTB COAE
Join us for the launch of the HTB Certified Offensive AI Expert (HTB COAE). The future includes hackers who know how to attack AI.
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The cybersecurity world is moving at light speed. Since we launched the AI Red Teamer Job-Role Path, thousands of you have been deep-diving into the mechanics of adversarial machine learning. You have been learning how to probe, prompt, and push AI systems to their limits.
Now, it is time to prove you can do it under pressure.
Today, we are officially launching the HTB Certified Offensive AI Expert (HTB COAE). This is the certification the industry has been waiting for: a professional-grade credential that separates the curious from the experts.
From student to expert
While the AI Red Teamer Job-Role Path provided the learning journey, the HTB COAE is the proof of your skills. This certification is designed to test your ability to assess complex AI environments in a real-world setting.
The AI Red Teamer Job-Role Path curriculum was developed in collaboration with Google and aligned with the SAIF framework. It covers the niche, high-level attacks that are not found elsewhere. If you have been working through those 12 modules, you are already on the right track. But knowledge is only powerful when it is applied.
The HTB COAE is the final milestone that turns your learning into a professional credential and proves you can execute those skills in a high-pressure environment. You can access the full path and the exam voucher through our Silver Annual subscription.
What is the HTB COAE exam?
This is not a multiple-choice test. The HTB COAE is a rigorous, 7-day practical examination. You will be dropped into a simulated corporate environment and tasked with performing a full-scale AI offensive assessment.
HTB COAE goes beyond prompt injection tricks. It validates your AI security knowledge across the full attack surface: adversarial ML, data poisoning, LLM exploitation, AI application and system security, privacy, and defense, all in one credential.
Empowering security leaders to keep up the pace of AI innovation
For organizations, the rapid integration of AI brings significant risk. This certification offers a way to standardize AI red teaming skills across your workforce. By training your senior talent through the AI Red Teamer Job-Role Path and the HTB COAE, you ensure they are using the latest techniques according to industry frameworks and AI/ML research to secure your critical infrastructure.
Upskilling your internal teams with this expert-level certification allows you to proactively stress-test your own models. Instead of reacting to threats, your security professionals will have the hands-on experience needed to build resilience directly into your AI-integrated systems.
For those of you hacking as part of a team, the certification and its accompanying path are available through our enterprise plans on the HTB Enterprise Platform. You can get a demo to see how it fits your team's specific needs.
Bridging the gap for researchers and analysts
For AI security researchers and data analysts, this path and certification provide the technical framework to validate theoretical findings through practical exploitation. It bridges the gap between data science and offensive security, allowing you to see exactly how subtle changes in data or model architecture can be weaponized. By mastering these adversarial techniques, research teams can shift from identifying vulnerabilities to actively demonstrating the impact of model evasion and poisoning on organizational data integrity.
Why get certified now?
As organizations rush to integrate LLMs, the gap in specialized security talent is growing. AI expertise is no longer just a "nice to have" skill; it is becoming a requirement for senior red teaming roles.
When you hold the HTB COAE, you are telling the world that you don't just understand the theory of AI security, but that you have the hands-on experience to defend the next generation of technology.
Ready to gear up? You can access the full path and the HTB COAE exam voucher through our Silver Annual subscription.
For teams: To grant your team access to this path, please navigate to Academy for Business.
