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Introductions
Welcome to our new Community, we are so happy that you have joined us and we'd love to get to know you all. Please introduce yourself in this thread by telling us a little bit about yourself and your experience with Immersive Labs and Cyber Security.
I'm Kieran, the Director of Community here at Immersive Labs and I'm responsible for fostering this community, and leading our Cyber Million program which aims to help 1 Million people into cybersecurity jobs over the next decade.
Prior to this I worked with the UK NCSC to design and deliver the inaugural program of CyberFirst events, a pioneering initiative aimed at inspiring and encouraging 14 - 18 year olds to consider careers in cybersecurity. I'm a member of the UK Cyber Security Council's Qualifications Careers Working Group and carried out extensive research into the UK's Cyber Security Skills Gap as part of my MSc in Cyber Security.
I live in South West England, where you can often find me running on the trails, or running after my 7 year old son.
I look forward to meeting you all
Kieran
133 Replies
- TomHills
Bronze I
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!
- TillyCorless
Community Manager
Hi TomHills, it's great to have you here and hear a little about your background!
Yes, a new Human Connection Challenge lab is released each month... For those who haven't yet attempted it - you have until Sunday 26th January at midnight! BethHolden who wrote the lab will be sharing her walkthrough notes over in The Human Connection blog on Monday for you to compare with your own notes 👀
- gmkingsley
Bronze I
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?
- KieranRowley
Community Manager
Hi gmkingsley - welcome to the community!
For help and support with all things Immersive Labs, please check out the Help & Support Forum.
We are hoping to foster a collaborative environment here where our users come together to share ideas on how to get the most out of Immersive Labs (not just lab hints!) so please do post your questions there.
All of our new products, features and content are announced in monthly release notes (the next one is coming tomorrow). We also host quarterly roadmap webinars. Both of these are exclusively for customers. I notice that you did not sign up to the community using the customer registration option, but I can see that you are a customer, so I have given you the correct access. You should now be able to access Product Updates and Customer Events
Come and join us for our next roadmap webinar on Thursday Immerse Yourself: Customer Roadmap Overview
- Gene
Bronze II
When I click on "Product Updates" or "Customer Events" or "Immerse Yourself: Customer Roadmap Overview" I get "Board no longer available" popping up on my screen, and am not brought to the intended target but am left here.
- autom8on
Bronze III
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).
- KieranRowley
Community Manager
Hi Steve! I certainly remember you from way back in 2018. It's great to be reconnected, welcome to the Human Connection.
- Bluesman
Bronze III
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!
- KieranRowley
Community Manager
Hi Rafael, welcome once again to our community! It's so nice to hear from our customers about how Immersive Labs is having a positive impact
- Mel
Bronze I
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!
- KieranRowley
Community Manager
Hi Mel it was great to meet you at the London Cyber Drill and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Welcome to the Human Connection!
- BenShreeve
Immerser
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
- KieranRowley
Community Manager
Welcome Ben (and Bramble)!
- AndyMckay
Bronze I
Cool, will do! And thanks for the friendly welcome Tilly 😊
- AndyMckay
Bronze I
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! 🤖
- TillyCorless
Community Manager
Welcome AndyMckay - it's great to have you here! Feel free to delve in to our Community Forum to orientate yourself!
- bchallener
Immerser
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.👋
- Anonymous
Hey everyone!
I'm Nneka, a Technical Writer at an Out-of-Hours Primary Care Provider.
I'm excited to explore the realm of Cyber Security and transition into this field.
I look forward to connecting with you all!
🌿
- KieranRowley
Community Manager
Welcome Nneka!
- Anonymous
Thank you, Kieran!