"Offensive Security Bans Use of ChatGPT in Cyber Security Certification Exams"

The Information Technology (IT) and cybersecurity company Offensive Security has prohibited the use of OpenAI's ChatGPT in its certification exams. The company is the second major IT organization to ban ChatGPT usage, following Stack Overflow's December prohibition on chatbot-generated responses. Offensive Security now includes chatbots such as ChatGPT and YouChat on its list of test restrictions in the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) exam guide. Other restrictions include spoofing, commercial tools or services, automatic exploitation tools, and mass vulnerability scanners. Other exams, including Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE), Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester (OSEP), and Offensive Security Wireless Professional (OSWP), also prohibited the use of chatbots. ChatGPT has impressed IT professionals with its ability to generate advanced answers from user-supplied text prompts. Its power has been most apparent in software development applications, where it can produce entire functions depending on programmer input. Cybersecurity experts have demonstrated that it can also generate basic vulnerability exploit code. This article continues to discuss Offensive Security's ban of ChatGPT from its security certification exams, Stack Overflow's decision to ban the tool from its platform, and the sophistication of this tool. 

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