Netpoleon partners with Hack The Box to offer real-world cyber training platform in ANZ

With skills shortages and growing attack complexity, organisations are investing in training that reflects real operating environments.

Netpoleon has partnered with cybersecurity training platform Hack The Box to offer its hands-on training to organisations in the ANZ market.

Hack The Box’s platform is built with AI and is designed to provide real-world, practical cyber training and development and reduce the gap between “trained” staff and operationally effective cyber practitioners.

Paul Lim, regional director ANZ Netpoleon, said with the advent of AI, traditional manual skills are gradually becoming obsolete and organisations are increasingly looking to strengthen cyber awareness skills that otherwise cannot be instantly met by AI.

“There has been a growing demand from mid to large organisations to upskill and reskill current cyber professionals to address the latest threats that otherwise cannot be mitigated by off-the-shelf solutions,” said Lim.

Linking structured learning with real-world practice

The Hack The Box platform brings together guided skills development, practical technical training and adversary-driven simulation to help organisations build cyber capability.

It’s built around the philosophy that technology alone does not stop breaches — skilled people do. It uses adversary-driven learning to prepare teams for the types of attacks that cause real data breaches.

Guided, role-based learning paths are aligned to real-world job functions such as SOC analysts, incident responders, penetration testers, cloud security engineers and red, blue and purple team roles.

Training is mapped to industry frameworks including MITRE ATT&CK, NIST and NICE, with progress dashboards that show capability growth in a measurable, auditable way over time.

Exercises mirror modern enterprise infrastructure with on-premises, hybrid and cloud settings. Participants work through live attack scenarios, exploiting vulnerabilities, moving laterally through networks and practising detection, response and privilege escalation techniques.

At the enterprise-grade level, training includes advanced, scenario-based simulations aligned to real-world threat actor behaviour including ransomware, insider threats, lateral movement, data exfiltration and supply-chain compromise. It enables red, blue and purple teams to train together in safe, isolated environments that reflect real production architectures.

Designed for the ANZ cyber landscape

Lim noted that organisations across Australia and New Zealand are grappling with a multi-faceted challenge on the cyber front — ongoing skills shortage, growing threats and regulatory scrutiny around cyber resilience and incident readiness.

To address these challenges, organisations need to enhance workforce skills, not just increase investment in tools. For partners, there’s an opportunity to provide both skills and services to their customers.

Providing training also helps end customers to self-enable and allows partners to provide higher end consultancy services, Lim said.