Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month! October is your annual opportunity to pause, benchmark your security skills, and level up your defenses against an increasingly dynamic threat landscape.
This year, our primary focus is on improving AI security & resilience across your workforce. As artificial intelligence transitions from an emerging technology into core business infrastructure, it introduces both incredible efficiency and novel security risks. Whether you are defending against frontier-model-enabled threats, securing automated enterprise pipelines, or guarding against human-centric identity attacks, true resilience requires hands-on training—not just passive learning.
Join us throughout October in the Immersive platform to jump into hands-on challenges, test your skills in live crisis simulations, and tune in to interactive expert events designed to help you tackle modern cyber threats head-on.
Labs & Challenges 🧪
The Hex Files
(Earn a digital community badge if completed by Nov 9th!)
Track down and stop the Pointy Hat Society—a coven of witches-turned-hackers—through a brand new program combining both hands-on labs and single-player Crisis Sim scenarios that reinforce safer security hygiene. Then test what you’ve learned in two of our most popular challenge labs.
Lab Collections:
Crisis Sims:
AI Security & Resilience Pathways 🤖
To help organizations build workforce resilience at scale, managers can assign any of the following 5 structured programs directly to their teams:
- Foundational AI Literacy and Safe AI Adoption — Understand what AI tools are, how they are driving business value, and how to safely adopt them in your daily workflows.
- Protecting Against Frontier-Model-Enabled Threats — Learn how frontier models like Mythos accelerate threat actor workflows and sharpen your defensive capabilities against AI-driven risks.
- AI Purple Teaming (Blue Team) — Bridge traditional incident response into AI-specific risks, specialized telemetry, and adversary behaviors in collaborative exercises.
- AI Purple Teaming (Red Team) — Build practical confidence targeting AI-specific attack surfaces, finding model vulnerabilities, and translating findings into better defenses.
- Scattered Spider Threat Actor Defense — Master techniques to detect social engineering, identity compromise, and lateral movement typical of Scattered Spider operations.
Events & Webinars 📅
Mark your calendars for our live events and interactive sessions throughout the month:
[Roadmap Webinar]
The Evolution of Immersive One: Proving AI Readiness Across Your Enterprise
Date & Time: Thursday, 8 October 2026 | 10:00 am EST / 3:00 pm BST
Overview: Discover how to turn AI adoption into proven enterprise readiness with insights on our closed-loop resilience engine, the agentic frontier, and an exclusive sneak peek at our Q4 product roadmap.
[Webinar]
(Ghost) Busting Cybersecurity Myths: Separating Fact from Fiction
Date & Time: Monday, 19 October 2026 | 10:00 am ET / 3:00 pm BST
Overview: Join Container 7 experts as they debunk common cybersecurity myths, evaluate AI risks, and uncover practical strategies to build true organizational resilience.
[Virtual Crisis Sim LIVE]
The Return of the Puppetmaster: No Strings Attached
Date & Time: Friday, 30 October 2026 | 10:00 am EST / 3:00 pm BST
Overview: Put your crisis management team through a high-pressure live simulation tackling leaked enterprise credentials, insider threats, deepfakes, and rogue AI defense agents.
Cyber Resilience Awards 2026 🏆
Keep your eyes peeled right here in the community and across our social channels during the final week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month! We will be announcing the winners of the Cyber Resilience Awards 2026, celebrating the individuals and organizations operating at the absolute cutting edge of cyber and AI resilience. Stay tuned to see who takes home top honors!
Community Manager