The OSCE certification is granted only to those select few who successfully complete the grueling 48 hour exploit development exam offered by Offensive Security. This exam requires candidates to identify and exploit vulnerabilities across diverse systems, utilizing advanced techniques to navigate application environments, bypass security controls, subvert defenses, and obtain privileged execution contexts through weaponized exploit code written entirely from scratch.
Brad demonstrated sufficient proficiency to not only acquire enough points to pass, but did so in a mere 10 of the 48 available hours.