Happy thanksgiving and welcome to this week's new members 👋

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It's great to have you all here and we hope that you are enjoying exploring our community. Check out our new getting started guides to help you get the most out of your membership.

In case you missed it, here’s a selection of our favourite content from The Human Connection this week:

📰 Community Updates

The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1

First of all, The moment that many of you have been waiting for: The results of Episode 1 of The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1.

Since we launched the challenge at the beginning of November, over 200 people have attempted the lab, and more than 140 of you completed it!

Here are the top performing community members in each category:

🥇 First to Finish

steven was the first community member to complete the lab, a mere 2 hours and 26 minutes after it was launched!

⏱️ Fastest to Complete

0xP4pryk was the lab in only 30 minutes!

🎯 Most Accurate

0xP4pryk also had 100% accuracy 🤔 the next most accurate community member was onkelstony with 97.4%

💪 Most Persistent

And when it comes to most persistent we have to hand this month's award to udhavwho completed the lab multiple times and spent over 13 hours in the lab while writing his fantastic walkthrough.

If you'd like to see how the lab author BethHolden intended for you to complete the lab, check out the official walkthrough here.

Congratulations to everyone who took part in this challenge, let us know how you got on in the comments and keep your eyes peeled on Monday for Lab 2 👀

Cyber Countdown 2024

Speaking of new releases on Monday, we will also be launching our Cyber Countdown.

Throughout December we'll be unwrapping fresh content, celebrating this year's successes, and gifting you with with the tools and insight that you need to be ready for 2025.

To make sure you don't miss anything, follow the COUNTDOWN Tag and turn on your email Notifications 👀

🧠 Expert Guidance

This week StevenBoyd shared a deep dive into CVE-2024-5910 and BenMcCarthy released a brand-new lab focusing on reverse engineering a malware called Xworm. If you like this sort of thing then make sure you join us on 17th December for our Operational CTI webinar.

📅 Exclusive Events

Speaking of events, don't forget that we have some exciting events coming up in December:

Overcoming Deepfakes: An Action Plan for CISOs

On 10th December we will be hosting an informative panel session featuring experts from both Accenture and Immersive Labs, discussing the technical and executive aspects of deepfakes.

As part of our community, your input is crucial. So, we want to hear from you! Do you have any burning questions about deep fakes? Topics that you'd like us to cover? Please comment on the relevant event page:

10AM GMT

12:00PM EST / 9:00AM PST

Christmas Tree-Son🎄Virtual Crisis Simulation

On 13th December JonPaulGabriele will be hosting another of his fantastic Virtual Crisis Sims, and this one has a festive theme (as voted for by you!). Put on your worst jumper, pour yourself some mulled wine, and join us for (what we hope is!) the last Crisis of the year... it's going to be a cracker.

🤝 Help & Support

Over in the Help & Support Forum CalumS is looking for a hint with IAM: Demonstrate Your Skills - Developer access (2/3), can you help?

Have a great weekend everyone!

Kieran