Red Team Training Reviews

I have worked off and on as a red team operator since July 2018, and before that I spent around 12 years working as a network engineer. I have been a server administrator, a help desk tech, and I have done a lot of other technical jobs over the years.

I have worked on two different cyber ranges. I built an entire network of VMs inside one of the cyber ranges to mimic a customer's real world environment, and I have built single VMs for CTFs and cyber training as well as multi-VMs for cyber training.

My main focus going forward is training that is both beneficial and affordable.

If you know of any Red Team training, or training that is close enough to be of benefit to Red Team operations, please drop me a line at redteamtrainingreviews @ redteamtrainingreviews.com and I will consider adding it to this site.

Updates as of 1 January 2026

Current updated status:

I purchased White Knight Labs' Offensive Active Directory Operations Certification (OADOC) during their Black Friday sale. Not going to lie, I have gotten very frustrated with this training and I haven't made it past page 51 in the Lab Guide yet, and because of this frustration, I have found it hard to get motivated enough to continue the training. That being said, I am going to try and push through and write an honest review of this course.

I also signed up for the Hack Smarter Hands-On Labs subscription and started doing a bunch of the labs. They are fun and a great learning experience at an affordable price.

There are a number of goals that I have set for myself to accomplish in 2026. Some of the goals are:

cleaning up this site a little bit (removing outdated training and/or items that aren’t worth your hard earned money) and you might have noticed I have already started working on this one
cleaning up some of the new layout pages because I used AI to put my original reviews in the new format and it didn't work very well in some places because the AI added stuff (it re-wrote part of one of my reviews and it was pretty horrible), it changed stuff, and deleted stuff at random
cleaning up outdated links, and updating some of the prices to reflect current pricing
review some of the training that I have purchased and have gotten sidetracked while taking
update some of the courses that have gotten major refreshes
and there are a few other “special” things I’m working on…

Updates as of 19 October 2025

Are you ready to learn the basics of Sliver C2 from an instructor who creates their materials based off their day-to-day work as a professional penetration tester, all while working in a lab environment with modern Operating Systems and updated Windows Defender — and at a very affordable price???

I have added a review of Hack Smarter's Sliver C2: Pentesting and Evasion by Tyler Ramsbey course.