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Aug 6, 2025

Cyber Threat Protection & Prevention

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Threat Intelligence

Jun 20, 2025

Insider Threats: Definition, Types, and How to Tackle Them

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Life at Immersive

Apr 30, 2025

Embracing Curiosity: One Immerser's Career Shift

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Life at Immersive

Feb 27, 2025

The Talent Behind Our Talent

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Life at Immersive

Dec 18, 2024

Anna Presho: Making a Frontline Impact Behind the Scenes

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Life at Immersive

Nov 27, 2024

Immersive Employee Experience: Alex Kliemt

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Life at Immersive

Oct 31, 2024

Immersive Employee Experience: Laettie Ellison

Oct 16, 2024

Embracing Cyber Resilience: The Role of Red, Blue, and Purple Teams in Modern Security Strategies

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Oct 1, 2024

From Awareness to Action: Cybersecurity Results Month is Here

Life at Immersive

Sep 30, 2024

Immersive Employee Experience: Bernardo Rodrigues

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Sep 25, 2024

Immersive Labs Human Connection: Elevate Cyber Resilience Through Community

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Sep 4, 2024

Comprehensive Guide to Key Cybersecurity Regulations with a Regional Focus

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Life at Immersive

Aug 28, 2024

Immersive Employee Experience: Zack Abrams

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Aug 7, 2024

GenAI Chatbots Are Exposing Your Business to Devastating Attacks. Deploy These 4 Risk Mitigation Strategies

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Jul 31, 2024

IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024: Why People Are the Key to Mitigating Rising Costs

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Life at Immersive

Jul 24, 2024

Immersive Employee Experience: Ella Bendrick-Chartier

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Jul 19, 2024

CrowdStrike: The Impact of Faulty EDR and ELAM Drivers

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Jul 18, 2024

Navigate Localized Cyber Threats in Saudi Arabia

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Jul 11, 2024

Worried About Supply Chain Security? 3 Strategies for Increased Protection

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Jul 2, 2024

Understanding and Mitigating GenAI Prompt Injection Attacks: A Call to Action for CISOs

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Life at Immersive

Jun 21, 2024

Immersive Employee Experience: Andy Medlyn

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Jun 20, 2024

5 Things to do Now to Secure Your Software Supply Chain

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Jun 11, 2024

The Return of unattend.xml…Revenge of the Cleartext Credentials

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Application Security

Jun 4, 2024

Shifting Left? Overcome These 5 Common Challenges

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Life at Immersive

May 30, 2024

Immersive Employee Experience: Amy Kwong, Junior Cybersecurity Engineer

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May 21, 2024

Your 4-Step Blueprint for a World-Class Security Champion Program

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May 14, 2024

Ingredients for a Cyber Resilient Supply Chain: Technology, Human Expertise, and Collaboration

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May 9, 2024

Ready, Set, Respond: A CISO’s Worst Day

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Application Security

Apr 29, 2024

3 Steps for Building a Culture of Cooperation across Development Teams

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Cybersecurity Training

Apr 24, 2024

Immersive Labs and Virtually Testing Foundation Team Up to Empower Cybersecurity Job Seekers and Professionals

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Cybersecurity Training

Apr 16, 2024

Navigate the Cyber Skills Revolution with these 6 Strategies

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Apr 10, 2024

Empowering Female Leadership: Insights and Advice for Aspiring Leaders

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Mar 27, 2024

Empower Cybersecurity Compliance: A Comprehensive Look at PCI, DORA, NIS2, and Immersive Labs

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Mar 18, 2024

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: Key Changes and Implications

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Mar 11, 2024

For PCI-DSS, Point Solutions Alone Won’t Cut It

Cyber Resilience

Mar 6, 2024

5 Data-Backed Strategies to Prevent CISO Burnout

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Feb 27, 2024

3 Ways to Encourage Employees to Report Security Issues

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Feb 13, 2024

A Pillar of Modern Cybersecurity: Equipping the General Workforce with Physical Security Awareness

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Feb 7, 2024

Education and Team Trust Are Vital When it Comes to Preparing for a Cyber Attack

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Jan 26, 2024

How to Guard Against Insecure AI-Generated Code

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Jan 19, 2024

4 Ways to Build Cyber Confidence and Competence: A Holistic Approach

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Jan 3, 2024

The Impact of the SEC's New Disclosure Delay Process on CISOs

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Threat Intelligence

Dec 21, 2023

Combat New Threats with These 4 Proven Cyber Resilience Strategies

Cybersecurity Training

Dec 13, 2023

Celebrating a Major Milestone: Immersive Labs Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™

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Nov 14, 2023

Building Cyber Resilience with AI: Maximize the Benefits, Minimize the Risks

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Nov 2, 2023

Addressing AI in Today's Threat Landscape at the European Cybersecurity Challenge

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Oct 26, 2023

Enhancing Cybersecurity Training with Cyber Ranges: A Gartner Impact Radar Perspective

Oct 25, 2023

Unraveling the Psychology of Trust in Artificial Intelligence

Oct 12, 2023

Boards Lack Cybersecurity Confidence. There’s a Solution

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Oct 10, 2023

The Problem of Cyber Pro Complacency and other Findings from our 2023 Cyber Workforce Benchmark Report

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Oct 2, 2023

Driving Behavioral Change to Bolster Security: The Four Pillars

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Sep 20, 2023

Smarter Cyber Recruiting Starts with a Skills-First Approach

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Sep 6, 2023

Potent Preparation is Critical for Effective Cyber Response

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Aug 24, 2023

Getting More Out of Cyber Exercising, from Techs to Execs

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Aug 16, 2023

AI is here. What Does it Mean for Your Workforce?

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Cyber Resilience

Jul 5, 2023

Do You Know How Cyber Resilient Your Organization Is?

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Cyber Resilience

Jun 21, 2023

Using Custom Crisis Simulations to "Avoid an Asteroid"

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Jun 14, 2023

Concerns Mount as Senior Risk Leaders Deem Current Cyber Resilience Programs Ineffective

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Cyber Resilience

Jun 8, 2023

Why Even the Best Tech Stack Isn't Enough to Ensure Cyber Resilience

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Cyber Resilience

May 16, 2023

On the Road to Inclusivity with A11yCon – An Accessibility Conference at Immersive Labs

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Cyber Resilience

May 3, 2023

Think Your Team is Cyber Resilient? It’s Time to Prove It

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Cyber Resilience

Apr 12, 2023

Cyber Attacks are Unavoidable. 5 Tips to Help Prepare for the Next One

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Mar 17, 2023

Top 10 AWS Attacker Techniques 2023

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Mar 2, 2023

Cybersecurity Training Companies are Failing Their Customers

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Application Security

Mar 1, 2023

5 Challenges That Complicate Shifting Left Application Security and How to Overcome Them

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Feb 24, 2023

How to Build a Positive Cybersecurity Culture in 3 Steps

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Threat Intelligence

Feb 24, 2023

Unlocking Potential: Why You Should Adopt An Agile Mindset

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Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

Feb 8, 2023

Not a Developer? Why You Should Still Care About Git Security

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Cybersecurity Training

Dec 14, 2022

3 Reasons Cybersecurity Certifications and Training Demand Disruption

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Dec 1, 2022

3 Tips to Protect Against Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities This Holiday Season

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Nov 14, 2022

Cyber Threats are Increasing. Can Your Team Stop the Next Attack?

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Threat Intelligence

Nov 3, 2022

Can You Trust Single Sign-On? A Novel Technique for Stealing Credentials

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Application Security

Sep 8, 2022

8 Tips for Becoming an Application Security Pro

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Cybersecurity Training

Aug 5, 2022

Closing the cybersecurity talent gap

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Cyber Resilience

Jul 25, 2022

Test Your Response to Real-Life Cyber Attacks with our New Scenario Templates

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Threat Intelligence

Jul 19, 2022

Sounding the alarm: how high-profile threats influence learning behaviors

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Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

Jul 11, 2022

Beyond patching: the value of human expertise in threat mitigation

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Cyber Resilience

Jul 1, 2022

Government Organizations are Relentlessly Targeted for Attacks: A New Approach to Cyber Threat Response is Needed

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Jun 27, 2022

One-Day at a Time: From security advisory to functional exploit

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Cyber Workforce Benchmark

Jun 22, 2022

Is Your Org Doing Enough to Prevent a Cybersecurity Breach? (Our research says 'maybe not'!)

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Jun 15, 2022

Immersive Labs is bringing a cyber crisis to Infosecurity Europe

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Cyber Resilience

Jun 13, 2022

Immersive Labs is bringing McLaren racing to Infosecurity Europe.

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Jun 8, 2022

Immersive Labs is bringing drama to Infosecurity Europe.

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Cyber Resilience

Jun 7, 2022

The Psychology of Building a Resilient Cybersecurity Team

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Cyber Resilience

Jun 1, 2022

RSA: Transforming the industry’s approach to building cyber resilience

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Life at Immersive

May 25, 2022

How to define and execute an engineering strategy

Apr 6, 2022

Flexible working: at home, visiting friends, working holiday, and the office!

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Cyber Resilience

Mar 8, 2022

Free and open defensive cyber labs

Feb 8, 2022

Immersive Labs channel boss named CRN Channel Chief for 2022!

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Life at Immersive

Nov 5, 2021

A day in the life of Rob, Product Designer

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Cyber Resilience

Oct 4, 2021

Building cyber resilience for the Financial Services sector with breadth and at scale

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Cyber Resilience

Sep 27, 2021

Financial Sector Insider Threat: Master Key Compromise

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Cyber Resilience

Jul 27, 2021

Kaseya supply chain attack: Prepare to respond with the Cyber Crisis Simulator

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Cyber Resilience

May 20, 2021

Welcome to the DarkSide: where IT and OT Collide

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Cyber Resilience

Apr 15, 2021

Interdependence and teamwork: managing crises effectively

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Cyber Resilience

Mar 31, 2021

Play along with our new crisis scenario – Insider Threat: Pharma Drama!

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Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

Mar 24, 2021

SaltStack: further injection vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

Mar 16, 2021

Hands-on with Hafnium: Proxylogon evolves

Mar 2, 2021

One-day exploit party with SaltStack

Feb 24, 2021

Diverse organizations build high-performing crisis response teams. Here’s how.

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Threat Intelligence

February 27, 2025

The Black Basta Bombshell – How Immersive Helps You Be Ready

Threat Intelligence

April 9, 2024

Havoc C2 Framework – A Defensive Operator’s Guide

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Thought Leadership

September 27, 2023

Unlock the Complexities of Reverse Engineering with Immersive Labs

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Threat Intelligence

April 26, 2023

Meet Heimdall: The Lightweight Cyber Range Template with Heavyweight features

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April 24, 2023

Detecting and decrypting Sliver C2 – a threat hunter's guide

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Thought Leadership

March 2, 2023

Exposing the Human Element in a Ransomware Attack

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February 27, 2023

Why Does My Msfvenom-Generated Shellcode Fail at Fnstenv?

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Thought Leadership

January 11, 2023

Why Traditional Application Security Training Approaches Fail

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Responsible Disclosures

August 15, 2022

We discovered major vulnerabilities in Control Web Panel. Here’s how we found them.

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Threat Intelligence

June 17, 2022

Hertzbleed: The new CPU vulnerability in a nutshell

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June 15, 2022

Patch Newsday June – No new active threats but warnings for SharePoint users, incoming Autopatch rollout, Follina zero-day fixed

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May 13, 2022

Patch Newsday May – NTLM relays, RDP again and the ongoing specter of Print Spooler

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September 13, 2021

Analyzing the CVE-2021-40444 exploit

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Threat Intelligence

September 13, 2021

Take the power back: Tool-up against a notorious global threat group with our new FIN7 series

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March 9, 2021

Introducing your vehicle’s nervous system, CANBus

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June 19, 2020

New vulnerability in popular Android banker Anubis reported to authorities

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Responsible Disclosures

April 16, 2020

CVE-2020-10560 – OSSN Arbitrary File Read

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Threat Intelligence

January 16, 2020

Codename Shitrix: attackers scramble to exploit CVE-2019-19781

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Responsible Disclosures

December 4, 2019

Immersive Labs Unearths Vulnerability in Aviatrix VPN