Introductions

Hi everyone! My name is Andy Mckay and I work at the National Records of Scotland. I look forward to connecting with all you lovely humans! 🤖

Hi!  I'm Mel, Services Operations at Saepio and working with our partner Immersive.  Have been here almost 3 years, started out as Cyber Security Advisor.  Loving the crisis sims and getting great feedback from potential customers.  Attended the London Sim event which was fantastic!

Hello everybody!

My name is Rafael, currently working in a banking institution, leading the S-SDLC area.

My first memory is with Commodore 64 (I'm a few years old :)) ... tinkering with its BASIC.

I met Immersive Labs thanks to an initiative of my Organization, and since then, every week, I have challenged myself to be a little more curious, to study, to learn and to complete labs.

And to this day, leading the ranking in my organization!

I could not mention all the tools and tactics that thanks to Immersive Labs I have learned about; I am especially interested in CVEs, malware analysis, code debugging and new techniques!.

Here's to many more labs with Immersive!

Hey everyone :-)

I've just joined the Community team as an Intern to help KieranRowley and TillyCorless. I came from a really sociable industry (brewing) and I've come to realise that cyber is just as sociable and friendly. It's been great meeting people from different companies and backgrounds, all obsessed with their particular area of cyber.

Hopefully I'll bump into some of you at future events!

Hello everyone! :) I'm Jude, a Cyber Security student currently studying for a degree apprenticeship in the defence sector. I'm just about to enter my fourth year, and Immersive has been incredibly helpful throughout. I'm hugely passionate about Cyber, and I'm always looking for opportunities in the industry :D

I got into Cyber Security when I was 14, and joined a national cyber security competition for 14-18 year olds called Cyber Discovery, run by CyberFirst, SANS Institute and the UK Government. Managed to reach the final stage three years in a row, where I took part in the face-to-face final, and later studying for and passing two GIAC qualifications when I was 17-18 years old (the GCFE and GCIH). Earlier this year I took part in the Cyber Team UK competition, reaching the final.

My areas of interests in Cyber Security are Threat Intelligence, Reverse Engineering, Malware Analysis and Digital Forensics. Actually, my dissertation was on developing a tool to detect embedded malware in images :D

In my spare time... oh man, I have FAR too many hobbies. I do a self-defence system called Krav Maga, I love to draw, and I'm also a Warhammer 40K lore fan, so I read a lot of that (get me started on Warhammer at your peril).

Once again, it's so lovely to meet all of you 😄

Hello. I am Eric and I am a software development consultant specializing in data engineering pursuing knowledge of cybersecurity through multiple outlets including the pursuit of a master's which is how I heard of this platform. I enjoy tinkering with hack projects and trying to get a good handle at industry trends.

Hello Everyone! This is so much fun getting to know you all. My name is Courtney, and I manage our Strategic Alliances and Partner program here at Immersive Labs. I have a cybersecurity, risk management, and risk quantification background, and I love how we're working to address the people's risk side of what we do! 

In my free time - and work time - I LOVE to travel. I recently had the chance to go to Australia for the first time, and it was spectacular! I also have a 14-year-old daughter who keeps me very busy - and the dog, of course! 

I am excited to be part of the community!

Hi everyone! So many wonderful friendly faces. My name is Brandon Challener and I manage part of our North American Customer Success team at Immersive Labs. I have been here for close to 4 years now and have been a part of so many wonderful growth stories and exciting successes. I'm so thrilled to be now apart of this community to hear from all of you and to engage at a deeper level to make one's successes all of yours. My wife and I live in Portland, Maine where we enjoy all of the amazing restaurants and nature that is right at our finger tips.👋

Hola,

I'm Steve. Been using the platform since the early trials back in 2018. Currently sat on ~259K points and 1,683 labs completed. Run regular drop-in calls at my employer to try and encourage people and keep them pointed in the right direction (whilst continuously nagging them about keeping better notes!). 

Been "hacking" things since my parents foolishly gave me a ZX81 a very long time ago. Work-wise, I've been involved in "cyber" since the mid 1990's (where I started my career as a research scientist for the MoD) - am a recovering CHECK Team Leader (#19!)(and used to sit on the TigerScheme technical panel, as well as invigilating CHECK exams at PGI) - and still keep my hand in doing the odd penetration test here and there, though my main passion these days is for physical security, I've mostly had enough of computers. ;-p

Outside of work, I'm mostly found wandering around with the hound, running lock picking villages at conferences, or hiding in Virtual Reality (it's so much better than Reality Reality! ;-p). 

Hi fellow community members, 

I am dipping my toe in the community pool. I am curious how effective this will be in providing the support and information, I may need in my unique role with the utilization of this product. As an example, was the new catalog that was released in October introduced to the community? Also, is there any polling of the community for product/service roadmap?