BlackHack Society// The field, mapped
The BlackHack Cybersecurity Map
Red, Blue and Green routes across 37 disciplines, with careers, certifications and places to practice, all seen through Purple Team Mentality: the attacker, the defender, and the people living through the incident.
The interactive map is laid out in wide pages and reads best on a laptop or tablet. On a phone, the PDF is easier to follow.
The four lenses
Red Team
Offensive operations
Authorized assessment, adversary emulation, attack-path analysis and vulnerability research.
Blue Team
Defensive operations
Detection, threat hunting, incident response, forensics and recovery.
Green Team
Builder pipeline
Secure engineering, cloud, containers and identity, DevSecOps, automation and AI security.
Purple Team Mentality
Across every route
Three perspectives on every incident: adversary, defender, and victim or stakeholder.
For the operator, an incident is the job. For the people it hits, it may be the worst day of their professional life.
What’s inside
- Start Here pathways into the field
- Master Map of all 37 disciplines, each linked to its own page
- Framework Map and a framework index
- Purple Team Mentality and one incident, step by step
- Careers: jobs, and certifications earned versus tenured
- Proof of Work you can show an employer
- Where to Practice for $0 on a 16 GB laptop
- Practitioner’s Lexicon and a full discipline index
76 pages37 disciplines384 live links
Authorized use only
This map points to real offensive tradecraft. Use it for lawful research, isolated labs you own, sanctioned CTFs and engagements with written permission and a defined scope. Never against systems, accounts, networks, data or identities you are not authorized to test.
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