Hack The Box vs. Security University Comparison Chart

Learning IT doesn’t have to mean boring lectures, the frantic pace of bootcamps, or lots of time away from your job or family. With CBT Nuggets, you can train anytime, anywhere, at your own pace — all from the comfort of your office chair or living room couch. Our training team is made up of industry experts who truly enjoy teaching people IT. Their training is informative, relevant, and engaging — and because most videos are 10 minutes or less, it’s easier to retain information. Choose from a training library of thousands of videos on in-demand technologies from widely used and respected vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, AWS, Fortinet, and more. Earn a certification. Keep your skills up to date. Learn a new technology. Have an on-the-job resource. With accountability coaches, practice exams, and virtual labs at your fingertips, CBT Nuggets is proud to have helped thousands of professionals achieve their career goals over the last two decades.

NINJIO lowers human-based cybersecurity risk through engaging training, personalized testing, and insightful reporting. Our multi-pronged approach to training focuses on the latest attack vectors to build employee knowledge and the behavioral science behind human engineering to sharpen users’ intuition. The proprietary NINJIO Risk Algorithm™ identifies users’ social engineering vulnerabilities based on phishing simulation data and informs content delivery to provide a personalized experience that changes individual behavior. With NINJIO you get: - NINJIO AWARE attack vector-based training that engages viewers with Hollywood style, micro learning episodes based on real hacks. - NINJIO PHISH3D simulated phishing identifies the specific social engineering tricks most likely to fool users in your organization. - NINJIO SENSE is our new behavioral science-based training course that shows employees what it “feels like” when hackers are trying to manipulate them.

ACI Learning delivers hands-on IT and cybersecurity training built for modern teams. Expert-led videos, interactive labs, and certification prep for today’s top credentials turn knowledge into real-world skill. Whether you’re training a team or advancing your career, myACI makes it easy to learn, track progress, and see results that matter. This is online training with labs—not passive learning. From compliance and cloud to security and systems, ACI Learning helps professionals build confidence and capability. myACI offers role-based learning paths, video+lab combos, practice exams, and progress tracking. Managers get dashboards, credential tracking, and analytics that tie training to outcomes—with enterprise tools like SSO, LMS/LTI integration, SCORM support, and audit-ready reporting.

ThreatLocker is a Zero Trust Platform that prevents cyber threats by blocking unknown applications, enforcing least privilege, and controlling what can run across your environment. Using Allowlisting, Ringfencing, Network Control, and more, ThreatLocker stops ransomware, zero-day attacks, and unauthorized activity before execution, rather than relying on detection after the fact. Built for modern IT and cybersecurity teams, the platform delivers centralized visibility and policy management across endpoints, users, and applications. ThreatLocker reduces attack surface, limits lateral movement, and supports compliance with detailed audit logs. With fast deployment, a large built-in application library, and streamlined approvals, organizations can strengthen security while minimizing operational overhead and maintaining business continuity.

Keeper Security is transforming the way people and organizations around the world secure their passwords and passkeys, secrets and confidential information. Keeper’s easy-to-use cybersecurity platform is built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Keeper’s solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance. Trusted by millions of individuals and thousands of organizations globally, Keeper is the leader for best-in-class password and passkey management, secrets management, privileged access, secure remote access and encrypted messaging.

Adaptive is the human security platform for the AI era. AI has fundamentally changed the threat landscape. Deepfakes make social engineering more convincing, AI-powered phishing scales attacks 100x, and the rapid adoption of AI tools introduces new risks to every organization. Adaptive unifies security awareness training, agentic email security, and AI governance to secure every attack surface where work happens. Adaptive’s platform trains employees against emerging threats, stops sophisticated email attacks, and secures rogue AI usage. The Company’s platform can be deployed in the browser, on device, and in email inboxes. More than 2,000 leading organizations trust Adaptive, including major global brands like PayPal, MLB, and Bose. The Company has raised over $140M from leading AI investors including OpenAI and NVIDIA, and most recently closed an $81M funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures.

GoAnywhere MFT provides secure managed file transfer for enterprises. Deployable on-premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments, GoAnywhere MFT software enables organizations to exchange data among employees, customers, and trading partners, as well as between systems, securely. GoAnywhere MFT was a recipient of the Cybersecurity Excellence Award for Secure File Transfer.

Graylog is the AI-powered SIEM and log management platform built for security and IT operations. The platform centralizes and analyzes event data from across complex environments to help teams detect threats faster, investigate smarter, and control data costs—without compromise. Graylog combines scalable log management with explainable AI that summarizes dashboards, prioritizes real risks, and automates investigation workflows—while keeping analysts in control. With products including Graylog Security, Enterprise, API Security, and Open, Graylog serves more than 60,000 organizations across 180 countries. Headquartered in Houston with roots in open source, Graylog continues to redefine how modern teams achieve clarity, context, and control across their environments.

Criminal IP is a cyber threat intelligence solution that provides decision-ready threat intelligence, and attack surface management solutions to security teams worldwide. By continuously scanning the global internet, Criminal IP aggregates and contextualizes threat signals across IPs, domains, URLs, and attack infrastructure, covering malicious indicators, known vulnerabilities, exposed assets, and attacker behavior. Criminal IP's mission is to give organizations real visibility into their cyber landscape and accelerate threat detection and response by delivering the intelligence needed to outsmart attackers.

Bitdefender Small Business Security delivers enterprise-grade, layered cyber-protection designed specifically for small organizations. It covers Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android devices with centralized, easy-to-use management, so businesses without a dedicated IT staff can deploy and monitor security from one dashboard. Key features include multi-layered endpoint protection (machine learning, behavioral analytics, real-time monitoring, process termination, and rollback) to prevent known and unknown threats. It offers ransomware prevention and mitigation (detecting abnormal encryption attempts and restoring files from backups), fileless attack protection (memory/back-injection interference, script blocking), phishing & fraud prevention (blocking deceptive sites and warning users), and advanced exploit protection (real-time shield of browsers, Office apps, Adobe Reader) for comprehensive endpoint defense.