Netpoleon and Hack The Box partner to strengthen cybersecurity skills across Australia and New Zealand

Sydney, Australia – February 2, 2026 – Netpoleon, a leading value-added distributor of cybersecurity and networking solutions across Asia Pacific, has announced a strategic partnership with Hack The Box (HTB) to deliver advanced cybersecurity education and workforce development solutions to organisations across Australia and New Zealand.

The partnership brings Hack The Box’s AI-driven, hands-on cybersecurity training platform to the ANZ market via Netpoleon’s extensive channel ecosystem, addressing a growing regional need for practical cyber skills, threat-driven readiness and measurable workforce capability.

As cyber threats across Australia and New Zealand continue to escalate in scale, sophistication and speed, organisations are facing increased pressure not only to comply with regulatory requirements, but to demonstrate genuine cyber resilience.

The partnership between Netpoleon and Hack The Box is designed to help enterprises, financial institutions and government agencies move beyond theoretical training, enabling security teams to get hands-on experience and build real-world capability aligned to modern attack techniques.

“As cyber threats across Australia and New Zealand continue to evolve in scale, sophistication and speed, organisations are under growing pressure to demonstrate not just compliance, but true cyber resilience,” said Louis Harding, Vice President of Asia Pacific at Hack The Box.

“Hack The Box’s AI-powered cybersecurity readiness and upskilling platform is purpose-built to address this challenge by transforming how cyber skills are developed, from theoretical learning to real-world, hands-on readiness. Our partnership with Netpoleon is timely for the ANZ market, enabling enterprises, financial institutions and government agencies to strengthen workforce capability, meet rising regulatory expectations, and build lasting cyber trust through continuous, measurable cyber capability.”

Through the partnership, Netpoleon will distribute Hack The Box’s full portfolio of cybersecurity upskilling and readiness solutions, supporting organisations by building, assessing and operationalising cyber skills across red, blue and purple teams.

“Netpoleon is pleased to partner with and distribute solutions from Hack The Box to enhance cyber capabilities for the channel and the broader cybersecurity community,” said Paul Lim, Regional Director ANZ at Netpoleon. “As part of a broader effort to strengthen red, blue and purple teams - complemented by other solutions in Netpoleon’s portfolio - our goal is to provide holistic skills solutions across the entire cyber lifecycle, from education and governance through to identification, detection, prevention, response and recovery.”

Addressing the cyber skills gap with hands-on, threat-driven learning

Hack The Box is a leading cybersecurity workforce development and readiness platform that enables organisations to build, assess and operationalise real-world cyber skills. Unlike traditional training approaches, Hack The Box focuses on hands-on, adversary-driven learning designed to prepare teams for the types of attacks that cause real data breaches.

At its core, Hack The Box addresses a critical reality facing governments, banks and enterprises today: technology alone does not stop breaches - skilled people do. Its enterprise platform is designed to operationalize cyber readiness, preparing both humans and AI systems to perform under real-world conditions. Its core offerings span the full lifecycle of security capability development, validation, and deployment:

• HTB Academy: Role-based learning paths and certifications covering red team, blue team, purple team, and AI security roles, built to develop skills that translate directly into operational impact.

• Hands-on Labs and Cyber Ranges: Real-world environments, including Threat Range, that simulate live attacks across SOC, DFIR, and threat-hunting workflows, enabling teams to train and respond as they would in production.

• Tabletop and crisis simulations: Executive and technical-level exercises that unite security, IT, and business stakeholders to rehearse decision-making under pressure.

• Capture The Flag and team exercises: Competitive, adversarial challenges that benchmark real capability, uncover skill gaps, and drive sustained engagement across organizations.

• Talent Search and candidate assessment: Performance-based evaluation and recruitment, allowing organizations to identify, assess, and hire talent based on proven ability demonstrated across the Hack The Box ecosystem.

Designed for the ANZ Cyber Landscape

Organisations across Australia and New Zealand are grappling with a persistent cybersecurity skills shortage, increasingly sophisticated threat actors, and heightened regulatory scrutiny around cyber resilience and incident readiness. There is also growing pressure to demonstrate practical security capability, not just investment in tools.

By focusing on people, proficiency and preparedness, the Netpoleon and Hack The Box partnership helps organisations across ANZ strengthen cyber resilience where it matters most - in the capability of their people.

About Netpoleon

Netpoleon is a value-added distributor specialising in cybersecurity, networking and infrastructure solutions across Asia Pacific. The company works closely with vendors, channel partners and customers to deliver integrated security solutions that address the full cyber lifecycle.

About Hack The Box

Hack The Box is the leading AI-powered cybersecurity readiness and upskilling platform, trusted by 1,500+ organizations worldwide, including Fortune 500 enterprises, government agencies, and MSSPs, to build cyber resilience at scale. Through AI-enhanced intelligence, gamified labs, live-fire simulations, and one of the world’s largest cybersecurity communities, Hack The Box enables teams to master offensive and defensive skills through real-world scenarios designed for the age of AI.

Founded in 2017, Hack The Box has grown a global community of over 4 million members, enabling organizations to validate resilience, mitigate breach risk, and develop cyber talent. Delivering continuous learning alongside industry-recognized certifications and certificate programs aligned with major workforce frameworks such as ENISA ECSF and NIST NICE, Hack The Box demonstrates external validation through recognized accreditation and role-based qualification recognition, including its ANAB-accredited HTB Defense Operations Analyst (DOA) certificate program and HTB CPTS, accepted for FedRAMP 3PAO penetration tester personnel.

For more information, visit hackthebox.com