General Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Information about Registration, Orders, and Payments
General FAQs
- How can I become a vendor or training partner for Offensive Security courses?
- Do you have any job positions open at Offensive Security?
- Can I blog about any Offensive Security courses I have taken?
- I have a job offering for OSCPs. Is there somewhere I can post that information?
- How can I become a penetration tester?
In-House Training
Live Training
Orders & Registration
- Why do you require a non-free email address?
- What is considered a non-free email address?
- What if I do not have a non-free email address?
- How can I change the email address I have associated with Offensive Security?
- Why do you require a secondary email address?
- What can I do if I didn't receive any registration emails?
Course Payments
- Are there any additional fees for international transactions?
- What is the fee for canceling a credit card charge?
- What types of payments do you accept?
- Do you accept wire transfers?
- Am I able to pay for Offensive Security courses with a GI Bill?
- Do you accept net term payments?
Vouchers FAQs
- What are vouchers?
- Can I purchase Offensive Security vouchers from third parties or resellers?
- Can individuals purchase vouchers?
- Can companies purchase vouchers?
- I have an OSID, how can I redeem my voucher?
- Do you offer bulk voucher purchases?
General Course FAQs
- Am I allowed to do what I want with my course materials?
- Can I pause my lab time?
- When does my lab time start and how is that lab time measured?
- I haven't used any of my lab time. Can I get free lab time since it was not being used?
- How can I purchase a lab extension?
- What languages are your courses available in?
Support FAQs
- How do I know if there is a problem with my lab(s)?
- What are your support hours?
- Can I get my revert counter reset?
- I'm having issues connecting to the VPN. What can I do before contacting support?
- I am having problems with the stability of my Personal Clients machine. How can I help fix this?
- How can I contact you for live technical support during the course?
Certifications and maintaining the integrity of our certifications
- Can my group and I schedule our certification exam at the same time?
- How long are certifications valid for?
- How do I verify someone's certification or how can I have my certification verified?
- Can my certification ever be revoked?
- I think someone is (or a group of people are) cheating, what can I do?
- I found course materials, lab exercises, spoilers, exam reports, solutions or hints for the exam posted online, what can I do?
Acclaim badges and digital certificates
- How can I claim my badge and digital certificate if I just passed my exam challenge?
- I passed my exam years ago, can I still get a digital certificate?
- I submitted my details via the URL provided by Offensive Security, but I didn’t receive any follow-up emails from Acclaim.
- Which OffSec certifications will have a digital certificate?
- Will I still get a paper certificate?
- Can I print the digital certificate?