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Hands-on labs

Hands-on cybersecurity labs to build capability across your enterprise

Give teams realistic environments to build and prove cybersecurity skills across cloud, malware, AI threats, social engineering, and more.

Move beyond completion rates with realistic, role-based labs that help teams practice using real tools, respond to current threats, and continuously improve their capability.

Build practical skills. Prove measurable progress.

Hands-on, real tools

Build muscle memory in hosted environments that reflect the tools, threats, and decisions teams face in practice.

Role-based paths

Create self-paced journeys for SOC, AppSec, CloudSec, AI, OT, OffSec, and wider workforce roles.

Threat-led updates

Keep capability current with labs informed by our Container 7 team's leading threat intelligence research and analysis of emerging attack techniques.

Measurable progress

Track role-based capability mapped to MITRE, NIST, and other frameworks for leaders, auditors, and regulators.

Agent Tuning

Validate AI analyst behavior before production

Test configurable AI analyst archetypes against realistic SIEM data and security workflows before allowing them to operate in production environments.

Deploy pre-built AI analyst archetypes

Test model, tool, and prompt variations safely

Validate autonomous tool use across security workflows

Audit tool calls, results, and token spend

Measure workflow coverage and adoption

AI Lab Builder

Create AI security labs
grounded in your reality

Build and customize practical labs around your proprietary code, emerging threats, and organization-specific security requirements.

Customize labs through an enhanced visual editor

Create content around proprietary code and emerging threats

Build from an expanded library of practical templates

Upskill Cybersecurity

Build cyber capability
across the enterprise

Improve resilience at scale with an extensive lab catalog, supported by governance, integrations, and reporting.

Build skills across key security domains

Align learning to risks and frameworks

Track capability and progress

Manage programs at scale

Lab Builder

Create custom labs around your real-world environment

Generate hands-on labs around your technology stack, controls, code, and emerging threats to practice against the risks you actually face.

Lab Collections

AI Security
Application Security
Cloud Security
OT Security
OffSec
AI Security

Build safe AI adoption and response behaviors

Train technical and non-technical teams to identify AI-specific risks and practice secure use and secure build workflows.

AI foundations, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, and secure AI coding

Practice prompt-injection exposure scenarios

Evidence that AI controls are exercised, not assumed

Application Security

Build secure development capability before production

Improve secure coding decisions through practical, role-based labs aligned to modern vulnerability patterns and real development workflows.

Practice against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities

Build capability across development and security roles

Track progress and support risk reduction decisions

Cloud Security

Strengthen cloud detection and response workflows

Upskill teams against cloud misconfiguration, identity risk, and response gaps using practical scenarios that mirror day-to-day operations.

Practice against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities

Build consistency security and platform engineering teams

Track readiness movement against priority cloud risk themes

OT Security

Improve OT readiness without risking operations

Improve secure coding decisions with practical, role-based labs aligned to modern vulnerability patterns and delivery workflows.

Role-relevant OT and hybrid IT/OT security pathways

Practice safe escalation and decision-making under pressure

Track confidence and execution quality by site and team

OffSec

Validate your offensive
security skills

Test, refine, and validate your offensive security capabilities in hyper-realistic attack environments built for elite adversaries.

Practice in complex, realistic scenarios

Benchmark against MITRE ATT&CK

Quantify team performance with detailed analytics

Immersive One

The cyber proving ground for the AI enterprise

Turn real-world performance into measurable proof of cyber resilience.

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What is a hands-on cybersecurity lab?

A hands-on cybersecurity lab is a browser-based environment where an individual completes a real security task against live systems and tooling, rather than answering questions about it. Each lab presents a scenario: analyzing malware, investigating an intrusion, exploiting a vulnerability, and validates the outcome, producing evidence of demonstrated capability rather than a completion record.

How is hands-on cybersecurity training different from courses and certifications?

Courses and certifications measure knowledge at a single point in time. Hands-on exercising measures whether an individual can perform the task under realistic conditions, and generates performance data every time they do. A certification confirms someone passed an exam. A lab result shows what they can do now, in an environment that mirrors the one they work in.

How do you measure whether hands-on cybersecurity exercising is working?

Through demonstrated performance rather than completion rates. Immersive's Resilience Score combines nine measured factors — including security team capability, secure coding practice, and framework coverage — into a single value benchmarked against industry peers. Completion rates measure attendance. Performance data measures readiness, and gives a trend line that can be reported at board level.

Which roles do hands-on cybersecurity labs support?

The full workforce, not only technical teams. Coverage spans non-technical employees, developers and engineers, SOC analysts and incident responders, offensive security specialists, and executive leadership. Role relevance matters more than catalog volume: an engineer and a board member face different risks, and need different evidence that they're ready for them.

How quickly is new content available after a threat emerges?

Immersive's threat research team publishes hands-on content in response to emerging vulnerabilities and active campaigns, so teams can exercise against a new threat while it's still live rather than waiting for a scheduled content refresh.