Welcome to January’s edition of the community newsletter!
Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and are looking forward to a great year ahead. In the meantime, let's recap some of the highlights from last month...
🏆 The Human Connection Challenge
First of all, The moment that many of you have been waiting for: The results of Episode 2 of The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1.
Since we launched the challenge at the beginning of December, over 160 of you have attempted the lab, and more than 80 of you completed it!
Here are the top performing community members in each category:
🥇 First to Finish
Technically noobr was the first community member to finish when they jumped on the lab when it went live by mistake on the 29th of November! 😭
Once again steven was the first community member to complete the lab following the official launch, a mere 1 hour and 13 minutes after it was launched!
⏱️ Fastest to Complete
IotS2024 completed the lab in only 30 minutes!
🎯 Most Accurate
steven also had 100% accuracy 🤔 the next most accurate community member was ifeanyiukadike with 95.8%
💪 Most Persistent
Shoutouts to miclib and edgarloredo for spending some serious time on the lab, as well as barney CalumS netcat and IotS2024 who came back for multiple attempts!
If you'd like to see how the lab author BethHolden intended for you to complete the lab, check out the official walkthrough here.
Congratulations to everyone who took part in this challenge, let me know how you got on in the comments below, and keep your eyes peeled for Lab 3 on Monday 👀
💡 Expert Insights
Throughout December we shared daily content from our subject matter experts to help you be ready in 2025. Here are some of our highlights:
I’m ready to put up MITREE 🎄 – but is my business ready with MITRE ATT&CK?
Team Sim: Best Approaches for Your Team
Mastering Crisis Sim: How We Got 25 Execs on the Edge of Their Seats
🤝 Peer to Peer Support
We built the Human Connection to help our members to connect and support each other, so it’s great to see many of you actively engaging to troubleshoot challenges and sharing solutions over in the Help and Support forum.
This month I wanted to particularly wanted to thank netcat and AtakanBal who have both achieved Bronze III Rank by providing hints and tips to numerous other members. Thank you!
📰 Product Updates
If you are an Immersive Labs customer, come and read about all of the new features and content in our December Release Notes.
We also released a brand new Defensive Team Sim: Operation Vulpes
🗓️ Exclusive Events
We hosted a number of events throughout December, if you missed them , you can watch the recordings here:
Overcoming Deepfakes: An Action Plan for CISOs
Operational CTI: How Immersive Builds Labs for Real-World Threat Preparedness
Christmas Tree-Son🎄Virtual Crisis Simulation
🔮 Looking Forward
We have lots of things planned for the Human Connection Community in 2025, including new challenges and some very exciting product updates. Stay tuned by following the News & Announcements Tag and turn on your email Notifications 👀
See you in the community soon!
Kieran
Community Manager
