Immersive One Launches NIST NICE Heat Map to Transform Cyber Compliance into Verifiable Resilience

BRISTOL, UK and BOSTON— March 4, 2026 — Immersive One, a leader in cyber resilience, today announced the launch of its NIST NICE Heat Map, a real-time system of record designed to help security leaders move from reporting based on assumptions and guesswork to evidence-based readiness based on the industry’s most widely accepted framework.

In today’s regulatory environment, "ready or not" is no longer a valid status for a security program. Boards, auditors, and regulators are shifting their expectations, demanding verified proof that a team’s capabilities align with global industry frameworks. However, most organizations remain stuck relying on vanity metrics—such as course completion certificates or hours spent training—which fail to provide objective evidence of whether an Incident Response team can perform under pressure.

"Real-world readiness can’t be captured by manual surveys or point-in-time assessments,” says Immersive CTO, Thanos Karpouzis. “By codifying NIST NICE standards directly into our exercise data, we give security leaders a blueprint to mature their organization into a proactive state of verified capability. That is what stands up during the most rigorous audit.”

From Subjective Reporting to Defensible Evidence

The NIST NICE Heat Map acts as a live, daily-updated system of record to actively reduce risk. By mapping platform activity directly to the NIST NICE framework—covering 5 Work Role Categories and 41 official Work Roles—Immersive One allows security leaders to move beyond check-the-box compliance to objective cyber readiness.

Key outcomes of the new capability include:

• Defensible Evidence for Governance: Replace subjective scores with a monochromatic, high-fidelity heat map that clearly identifies where coverage is absent (white) or insufficient (pale blue), providing a transparent view of the organization’s defensive posture.
• Precision-Targeted Remediation: Identify specific Task, Knowledge, and Skill (TKS) gaps—such as K0716—to ensure security teams spend time only on mission-critical requirements, maximizing the ROI of every development hour.
  
  
• Integrity-First Reporting: With a strict, built-in 70% quality threshold, the system displays "N/A" if platform content does not sufficiently cover a Work Role, protecting the integrity of reporting and ensuring strategic decisions are never based on incomplete data.
  
  

"We are shifting the conversation from reporting on effort to demonstrating aligned capability," says Karpouzis. "This is about giving leaders the confidence that when a real-world threat occurs, their team has the verified skills to defend the organization".

The NIST NICE Heat Map is now rolling out to Immersive One customers. For more information on how to build a defensible defensive posture, visit www.immersivelabs.com.

About Immersive 

Immersive, the leader in cyber resilience, helps your organization continuously prove and improve its ability to prevent and respond to cyber threats. Tailored to individual roles, our approach ensures your organization is always ready for an ever-evolving threat landscape, including the opportunities and challenges posed by AI. Backed by Container 7, an elite team of researchers with experience in offensive and defensive security, cloud, application security, and cyber threat intelligence, and with a relentless focus on evidence, Immersive provides unmatched visibility into your cyber resilience. Through a single enterprise platform for individuals, teams, and the entire workforce, we empower your organization to Be Ready for what’s next.

Immersive is trusted by the world’s largest organizations and governments, including Citi, Pfizer, Humana, HSBC, the UK Ministry of Defence, and the UK National Health Service. We are backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Summit Partners, Insight Partners, Citi Ventures, Ten Eleven Ventures, and Menlo Ventures.

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