What a year for cyber resilience! As we say goodbye to another Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we are thrilled to celebrate the organizations and individuals who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to proving and improving their cybersecurity posture, defending against emerging threats, and embedding a culture of resilience across their organizations using the Immersive One platform.
Collectively, our customers have tackled countless labs and simulations, setting new benchmarks for capability and speed. After crunching the numbers and reviewing the nominations, we're ready to announce just some of the winners who truly excelled in 2025 across the following categories:
Emerging Threats Leader Award
The Emerging Threats Leader award recognizes organizations and individuals at the forefront of threat detection and threat hunting; proactively identifying risks and strengthening defenses using insights from our Cyber Threat Intelligence labs.
🏆 Emerging Threats Award Organization Winners include:
- NHS England
- T-Mobile
- Arctic Wolf
🏆 Emerging Threats Award Individual Winners include:
- Steven Glogger, Swisscom
- Paul Blance, Specsavers
- Taz Wake, Jones Lang LaSalle
- Mark Cox, NationalGrid
Cyber Resilience Leader Award
This award acknowledges organizations that maximize the full use of the Immersive One platform to fully optimize end-to-end cyber readiness. True cyber resilience goes beyond simply preventing attacks; it encompasses the ability to prove, improve, benchmark and report your cyber resilience.
🏆 Cyber Resilience Leader Award Winners include:
- Swisscom
- NHS England
- Arctic Wolf
- Darktrace
- BT Group
Secure Development Champions Award
This award celebrates organizations and individuals who champion security throughout the software development lifecycle. It recognizes a proactive approach to building secure applications, emphasizing practices like threat modeling, secure coding standards, and rigorous testing using the Immersive One platform to prepare and demonstrate secure coding practices.
🏆 Secure Development Champion Organization Award Winners include:
- Citigroup
- GfK
- Swisscom
🏆 Secure Development Champion Individual Award Winners include:
- Steffen Wacker, Arctic Wolf
- Joao Santos, GfK
- Omkar Joshi, GfK
- Balaji Kannan, GfK
- Naresh Sivakumar, GfK
- Alexander Kolyshkin, EMCD
Exercising Excellence Award
The Exercising Excellence award recognizes organizations that have excelled in regularly using scenarios on the Immersive One platform to prove their cyber resilience. They have successfully run multiple crisis simulations to regularly exercise their teams and have high levels of participation and engagement.
🏆 Exercising Execellence Award Winners include:
- Mastercard
- Citigroup
- Siemens Energy
- NHS England
Immersive Trailblazer Award
This award recognizes individuals who simply love Immersive and have shown exceptional dedication to the platform. They have been amongst our top point scorers since January 1st 2025, completing thousands of labs and truly immersing themselves in the platform.
🏆 Immersive Trailblazer Award Winners include:
- Mico Marcos, PepsiCo
- QingKai Ma, Hubbel
Community Leader Award
Our final award, the Community Leader award, recognizes individual members of the Human Connection Community that have contributed to, and engaged with, both community content and their fellow community members. They have consistently shared tips and advice, engaged with popular threads and participated in community events and meetups, helping to bring the Human Connection community to life.
🏆 Community Leader Award Winners include:
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