Cyber Countdown: Day 1
Lab of the Day Every day we’re revisiting a standout lab from the past year—highlighting its impact and the skills it helped build, whilst also introducing you to the experts who built it. To get us started, today’s lab is of course Episode 2 of our Community Challenge -Scanning. In this lab we’ll test your scanning and enumeration skills but other than that, you’ll find limited information available to guide you. Lab author BethHolden, Cyber Security Engineer here at Immersive Labs is passionate about offensive cybersecurity and created this challenge as a little Christmas treat. The lab contains a range of tools which may provide multiple ways to solve the challenge, she’s eager to see how well you fare – good luck! As a reminder, we reward the top performing community members in the following categories: 🥇 First to Finish ⏱️ Fastest to Complete 🎯 Most Accurate 💪 Most Persistent 🎁 Spot Prizes In addition, at the end of each month, the lab author will provide a walkthrough to guide you through the lab and share hints, tips and expert advice on how to approach similar labs in the future. We also encourage you to submit your own walkthrough guides to community@immersivelabs.com and we will feature any unique approaches in their own Community Walkthrough Guide. You can read more about Season 1 of the Human Connection Challenge here. To be in with a chance of a prize you have until midnight on Sunday 22nd December 2024 to complete episode 2! To find the lab in the Immersive Labs Platform, Click Exercise > Challenges & Scenarios > The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1 > Scanning 🔔 Don’t miss out – there are 5 more labs to come in this challenge series. Make sure you're following the CHALLENGES Tag to get notified as soon as each one is released. Good Luck!Cyber Countdown: Day 3
Throughout December we are unwrapping, fresh content, celebrating this year’s successes, and gifting you with the tools and insight you need to be ready for 2025. Today's Lab is Kotlin for Android: Insufficient Input and Output Validation and today's Blog is I’m ready to put up MITREE 🎄 – but is my business ready with MITRE ATT&CK?.Cyber Countdown: Day 15
Lab of the Day Every day we’re revisiting a standout lab from the past year—highlighting its impact and the skills it helped build, whilst also introducing you to the experts who built it. Today's recommendation is Windows Hardening: Ep.1 – Introduction, which is a second recommendation from Cyber Security Engineer BethHolden, but as she was contractually obligated to choose our monthly challenge lab on Day 1 of the countdown, we agreed to let her have another go… Beth chose this lab as it consolidates all of your knowledge and learning from across the Windows Basics, Active Directory Basics, The Cyber Kill Chain, and CVSS Calculator collections. This lab starts your journey as a system administrator tasked with remediating findings from recent penetration tests. I loved that this collection covers a range of vulnerabilities and helped me understand not only how a system can be exploited, but how to fix it – all in a single lab! Blog of the Day Have you ever wondered what it would take to get 25 senior executives literally on the edge of their seats throughout a crisis simulation? Well, that's exactly what happened when Immersive Labs and our partner, Mastercard, flew all the way to Pakistan to carry out a Crisis Sim with one of Pakistan’s largest banking organisations. In this blog, Solutions Consultant SalimRamjean reveals how this was accomplished, along with his insights on how you can pull off a top-tier crisis simulation within your organisation. Planning a Crisis Sim event for 2025? Check it out.Cyber Countdown: Day 6
Lab of the Day Every day we’re revisiting a standout lab from the past year—highlighting its impact and the skills it helped build, whilst also introducing you to the experts who built it. Today's recommendation is Introduction to Microsoft Sentinel which comes from AshleyKingscote, Cloud Security Engineer here at Immersive Labs. Ashley has designed and developed much of the Immersive Labs’ Cloud Security product. From Kubernetes to AWS to Azure, Ashley has an interest in all things cloud security related. Ashley chose this lab as Immersive Labs is the only place you’ll find practical labs on Microsoft Sentinel. This collection provides a gentle overview of Microsoft Sentinel in a real environment, provisioned in minutes. Aimed at all users, this practical lab shows off Microsoft Sentinels' powerful functionality and acts as a stepping stone for our more complex labs.Cyber Countdown: Day 11
Lab of the Day Every day we’re revisiting a standout lab from the past year—highlighting its impact and the skills it helped build, whilst also introducing you to the experts who built it. Today’s recommendation comes from MattParvenProduct Manager for Lab Builder and SME for Cloud Security here at Immersive Labs. Matt said: “My favourite lab this year has to be Microsoft Sentinel SOAR: Introduction & Automation Rules. Not many cyber platforms are able to bring to bear tools like Microsoft Sentinel in their labs. SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) is an important concept. It’s effectively a set of tools and technologies that allow you to automate various responses to security incidents. Having the chance to build automation rules to respond to a live incident in a lab is super cool and gives our users a great way to understand how it works and how they can use it in their own environments!" Blog of the Day EllaBendrickChartier is back with Unmasking Holiday Hackers, a case study of a hacker who helped investigate and report a cyber-smishing ring that stole nearly half a million credit card numbers with a holiday-themed scam and shows you how you can use Immersive Labs to learn the knowledge and skills to conduct the same type of offensive investigation, complete with step-by-step methodology to keep you safe from holiday hackers!A warm welcome to our newest members
The community has grown this week, so please join me in welcoming: marvtl amina Karl GurdeepCheema1 Sheapndr rodgesalexis1 SaqerAlarefi AzurePineapple cldtr lanrewajumide alan abrahamnwadiani05 Aanchal jamesstammers LindaWalker39 ElenaF1 Celsopin zadium stephenpeck emma1207 ctmahlangu RPanek Disco jean5555 Balaji21 bigmacwhopper ALISTAIRBALL ElAlex ben-57231 Mint charlesmck MUHAMMAD AndyL harrynhs ElectronZigbee FF mpx90 👋 It's great to have you all here and we hope that you are enjoying what this community has to offer so far. As a starting point, be sure to check out our new getting started guides to help you get the most out of your membership and make sure to follow this December's Cyber Countdown, where we'll be unwrapping fresh content, shining the spotlight on our expert's recommended lab content (LABvent calendar anyone?!) and celebrating this year's success as we release new content daily.Cyber Countdown: Day 7
Lab of the Day Every day we’re revisiting a standout lab from the past year—highlighting its impact and the skills it helped build, whilst also introducing you to the experts who built it. Today's recommendation is Kusto Query Language: Ep.1 – Introduction to KQL which was recommended by RaeJeffriesHarris Senior Application Security Engineer here at Immersive Labs. About this lab, Rae said “I really enjoyed this whole series, but recommend that you start with the first lab. It was the first time I’d used KQL and the series does an incredible job of taking you through simple concepts, then building on them to create much more complex queries. It’s a very powerful tool, and it’s a really fun challenge to continually build on what you’ve learnt to find the data you’re looking for. The different concepts are explained really well – it’s the first time I’ve truly understood the difference between the different types of database joins! Crisis Sim of The Day Throughout December we will also be releasing 5 new Crisis Sim Scenarios. Today’s Sim is Orchid Energy: Trial by fire and data Author JonPaulGabriele said… “In today's interconnected world, crises rarely occur in isolation. This crisis exercise is a Polycrisis where a cyber and non-cyber crisis occurs simultaneously. It throws a series of challenging scenarios at you, emphasizing the importance of effective communication, collaboration, and decision-making.” Event of the Day Later today we will be hosting an informative panel session featuring experts from both Accenture and Immersive Labs, discussing the technical and executive aspects of deepfakes - Overcoming Deepfakes: An Action Plan for CISOs It’s not too late to register! We're running two sessions to suit multiple timezones, reserve your spot here: 10AM GMT 12:00PM EST / 9:00AM PST Your input is a crucial part of this community, so, we want to hear from you! Do you have any burning questions about deep fakes? Topics that you'd like us to cover? If so, comment on our community page for the event.Cyber Countdown: Day 12
Lab of the Day Every day we’re revisiting a standout lab from the past year—highlighting its impact and the skills it helped build, whilst also introducing you to the experts who built it. Today's recommendation is Windows Hardening: Privilege Escalation, which was recommended by Lead Cyber Security Engineer Stefan Apostol who said: “I don’t think I’ve ever seen Hardening labs out there and this lab was nice both to create and complete. During the lab users have to review a pentest report and apply fixes on Windows hosts, thus combining red and blue team skills. It also gave us the opportunity to create the Windows verifier, a script which automatically verifies tasks when users complete them. The authors were NatSilva and I. We decided to create this collection for two reasons, clients requests for remediation content, but also, to combine our individual skills into one and create content that would benefit both red and blue sides.” #armyoftwo Event of the Day Later today BenMcCarthy and benhopkins (or just Ben2 for short) two of the experts from our CTI team will reveal what it takes to make a lab, some of their favourites from 2024 and what is to come from the CTI team in a live community webinar. You also have the opportunity to pre-submit questions here so you can ensure that you leave with all of the information you need! It’s not too late to register. Christmas jumpers are encouraged. Blog of the Day RobReeves announces the arrival of a brand new Team Sim: Operation Vulpes and what it offers over and above other Team Sims within our scenario catalogue. We Want to Hear from You As we're wrapping up an exciting year in the Human Connect Community we'd love to hear from you! Your feedback is invaluable in helping us grow and improve. Please take a few moments to share your thoughts and experiences with us using this link. This survey should take no more than 5 minutes to complete, and please be assured that your responses will be kept confidential and used only for the purposes of this survey. We understand that your time is valuable, and we're grateful for your willingness to help us improve. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us.
