HTB Academy certification exams require a commercial-grade report to be uploaded as part of the evaluation. Candidates are tasked to professionally document findings, vulnerabilities, and security incidents identified.

Proper documentation is paramount during any security engagement. The end goal of a technical assessment or security incident analysis is the report deliverable which will often be presented to a broad audience within the target organization. All HTB Academy job-role paths leading to industry certifications include a dedicated module focused on documentation and reporting as guidance for our students.

As you can imagine, properly constructing and formatting a detailed report can be a complex and time-consuming process. For this reason, we teamed up with the team at Syslifters to make the report creation process easier and more friendly, even for first-timers.

Hack The Box reporting made easy with SysReptor

SysReptor is a fully customizable security reporting solution designed to get your documentation started within minutes: create designs based on simple HTML and CSS, write your reports in user-friendly Markdown, and convert them to PDF with just a single click in the cloud or self-hosted.

You can now write your HTB Academy certification report online or offline, using templates created with SysReptor in a few simple steps. 

1. Install SysReptor.

2. Import all HTB designs:

cd sysreptor/deploy
url="https://docs.sysreptor.com/assets/htb-designs.tar.gz"
curl -s "$url" | docker compose exec --no-TTY app python3 manage.py importdemodata --type=design

Adopting SysReptor not only helps with time management but also makes the entire process more intuitive. There can be several documentation aspects hard to absorb for beginners or technical details that might slip. These new Hack The Box templates can be your best reporting companion for multiple reasons:

• They are entirely free to use for HTB CPTS, HTB CBBH, and HTB CDSA exams.

• Easily write in Markdown, making your documents better by using extended syntax to create tables, fenced code blocks, automatic links, and more.

• Render perfectly to PDF format in a single click.

• Don’t waste time in local software troubleshooting.

• Take a further look at the full documentation for additional information.

More tips for your HTB Academy exam

Our goal is to create security professionals who are not just skilled but are also able to assess the risk at which the infrastructure is exposed and compose commercial-grade actionable reports. 

We do this by providing a top-quality learning experience preparing certification candidates for real-world scenarios. We way to become a market-ready professional is indeed not easy, and here are some other tips from William (our first HTB CPTS holder) that can help individuals and teams go through the evaluation successfully.

1. Take detailed notes with commands: if you have all the commands noted down, you will avoid spending a long time asking our friend Google or looking back into the modules.

2. Use HTB Academy search feature: in case you find a roadblock and do not know how to continue, add those keywords in the Academy search on your dashboard, and you will be redirected to the module or section where the concept and commands are explained.

3. Write the report as you go: take screenshots and write down the exact attack chain during the exam. This will save time at the end to refine and polish your report.

HTB Academy hands-on certifications are designed to provide job proficiency in various cybersecurity roles. As ensured by up-to-date training material, rigorous certification processes, and real-world exam lab environments, all certification holders will possess deep technical competency and understanding.