Introductions

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 all. I realized I have never introduced myself. I am a US military veteran and prior industry contractor that has served many roles in cybersecurity. Mostly from a red team focus or some form of analyst, network, data, etc. After many years in that industry, I decided it was time for a change and took a principal engineering job with an auto manufacturer. One of my first tasks was to bolster cyber awareness and training. This is how I was first introduced to IL and we've been partners ever since. 

I currently lead the company's leaderboards (I have to vet every lab I put on the training plan). But also use IL for more advanced labs to keep my own skills sharp. 

When I'm not training, I'm knee deep in managing and researching vulnerabilities and operations. 

I look forward to interacting with you all!

Hi! I'm Mateusz but I prefer Matt, I'm a first year studying cyber security and Digital Forensics at the University of the West of England. I'm relatively new to cyber security, so when my society introduced me to this platform it helped me develop my knowledge and understanding to a more technical depth than what I started with. I love taking part in CTF as I've noticed it helps me develop my knowledge in a much faster rate, as well as solidify what i already know. I can't wait to see how Immersive will continue to develop.

Hi everyone, great to meet you all.

I'm a Cyber Security Consulting leader at Kyndryl located in South Wales not far from Bristol and Newport (UK).

I've worked with some of the guys at IL over the years, and an active crew member at BSides Bristol and other Security and Community Events.

I'm an all around geek, cyber security enthusiast (yes that's a Kali T-Shirt I'm wearing) and recently rebuilt my music studio now my kids are a bit older...

I look forward to collaborating and networking with you all! 🤩

Hi guys, 

My name is Tom, im currently working for the NHS in an IT support role whilst in my final year of my Cyber Security degree in Sheffield.

I was working in construction before looking for a new challenge during lockdown and here I am! We get access to the platform through work and this has been a fantastic learning experience so far.

It will be nice to collaborate with other people who share similar interests. I'm currently really enjoying the new monthly(?) series and have completed them all so far and look forward to the next one :)

Cheers!

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?

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). 

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!

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!

Hi Everyone, nice to meet you all. My name is Ben, and I'm a lead cyber resilience advisor here at Immersive Labs. I work from our Bristol HQ and tend to collaborate with customers primarily around bespoke Crisis Sim scenarios. I've been with Immersive for a little over a year and come from an academic background studying cyber incident response decision-making. I'm passionate about helping people think about how their cyber security decision-making, both before and during an incident (or crisis), will impact their overall performance. Here to chat about incident response, decision-making, sensemaking, and linguistic theory (and cake, bread, coffee, and food)!

Bramble is essential to all of this, usually to be found asleep on the sofa or under the desk.

I look forward to chatting with you all as the community grows! 

Ben