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Community Newsletter - July 2025

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TillyCorless
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21 days ago

Hello from Immersive HQ where we're getting ready for an extravaganza of events over this July! These include:

🎤 July 3rd - Beyond the Situation Room: What your crisis response looks like to the outside world

🎤 July 15th - Labs Live: Operational Technology

🎤 July 16thConfessions of a Red Teamer: How Unseen Work Pays Off in a Crisis

🎤 July 17thImmersive X Darktrace Community Meetup - London

Yep, you read that correctly - our next in-person community meetup will be in London! We’ve teamed up with our friends at Darktrace and will be hosting an evening of cybersecurity talks and professional networking at Darktrace’s London HQ. Tell your teams, tell your colleagues, tell your friends... You’re all invited and you wont want to miss this one!

đź“° Community Updates

The Good
This week, we enhanced the search functionality of this community by integrating our Help Center, which offers comprehensive help & support documentation, alongside your existing community articles. From now on, your community searches will return both community and help center resources...  It's all at your fingertips! ✨ Read more here, try it out and let us know how you get on!
The Bad
It’s not always butterflies and rainbows in the world of community management and unfortunately we experience bugs on the community platform from time to time. Last week, we learned that the calendar invitation community you receive when you click â€śAttend” to one of our community events contains a dead link. We’ve reported this and are absolutely chasing it as a high priority, but, in the meantime, it’s best that you go to the event page itself when a webinar is due to start. We'll let you know when this is fixed.
The Ugly
Just kidding! There’s nothing ugly in this community, but the recent uptick in ClickFix phishing being used to socially engineer and get victims to download malware is pretty ugly alright. 

Here is some of my favourite community content from the last month:

Catch the recording of MaxVetter​ & KevBreen​'s fireside chat, Decoding the May Retail Cyber Onslaught as events are still unfolding. 

Learn how to Build your first practical lab with Immersive’s lab builder product manager, MattParven​.

From Abstract to Action: Immersive One's Compliance Solution. Read about how a large healthcare customer has recently leveraged Immersive One for their training needs from Cyber Resilience Advisor, MarieHargraves​.

🛡️ Container 7 Updates

Did you notice our new Container 7 blog? Container 7 is the new home for our team of cyber security experts to post about their research, insights, and the latest threats and vulnerabilities that you need to know about.

Patch Newsday June 2025 - The Container 7 team have reviewed the latest Microsoft patches so that you don't have to.

Insider Threats: Definitions, Types & How to Detect Them

🙌 Special Shout Outs


Please join me in thanking this month's most helpful members in our Help & Support Forum​​.

If you'd like to see your name here one day, head on over to the forum and answer a question.

đź”® Looking Forward

Did I mention that we’re taking July’s meetup to London? Sign up to catch talks from Immersive’s SabrinaKayaci​, Appsec engineer & Darktrace’s Nicole Wong, Principal Analyst.

Did you hear about the Immersive Cyber Resilience Awards 2025? Read on to learn how you can qualify for nine different awards this October.

See you back in the community soon!

Tilly

 

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4 Comments

  • Hello,

    in "Did anyone actually win anything from the Human Connection Challenge?" thread i was asking for more information about the winners of Human Connection Challenge. KieranRowley promised that winners will be announced in next month's (this one) newsletter, if they agree. Does it mean that ALL of the winners of all prizes like tickets to NY/London, all winners of PS5 and all winners of Airpods disagreed to be posted in Newsletter ? :)

    • KieranRowley's avatar
      KieranRowley
      Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager

      Hey m0ns00n​ I'm really sorry for the delay in announcing the winners and thank you for keeping me honest!

      The truth is, this is the first time we've ever run a competition like this and we have learned a lot of lessons very quickly, not least:

      • People don't always open emails that say "YOU ARE A WINNER!", especially in this industry
      • Company policies delay and often prohibit our members from claiming prizes
      • Company policies often prohibit us and our members from announcing their wins
      • Getting prizes into the hands of our members globally is slow and difficult!

       

      With that said, we do have some winners who are happy to be announced, and I promise we are working on it! Please bear with us 🙏

      We are also working on ways to make this much smoother for our next season of challenges.

      • m0ns00n's avatar
        m0ns00n
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        Thanks for the reply, I really appreciate the honesty. I understand that organizing something like this can be difficult. I totally understand the challenges, but just a quick note: in the EU and US, consumer protection laws require transparency in prize competitions, regardless of internal company policies, and that proof of winners is available or disclosed upon reasonable request, even if anonymized. So when winners aren't clearly confirmed, it becomes legally questionable and honestly it makes people like me hesitant to join future challenges, no matter how great they sound. This will be my last message about the winners, I’m just a bit tired of writing these comments. It looks like nobody else cares how fair the challenge was, so I’ll stop caring too.