How to use Immersive cyber ranges for cyber threat research?
Want to know how to take advantage of the cyber ranges platform to do malware and adversary research in a sandboxed environment? In this post, I’ll walk you through how to get access to the Heimdall Detection Engineering template for CTI so you can do just that! The Heimdall template is a domain-joined range that contains workstations, a domain controller, and security tooling that you’d ordinarily find in a real network. The purpose of this template is to enable cyber threat research, where you can launch attacks and malware, capture indicators of compromise through tools like Velociraptor, a SIEM network packet capture tool, and some analyst workstations with a bunch of analysis and reverse engineering tools. With that said, let’s get started. Firstly, you’ll need to go to the cyber ranges sign-up page and sign up with a name and email address. After hitting “Sign up”, you’ll need to go to your email and find the confirmation email to get your credentials, then go back to the cyber ranges website and log in with your new credentials. After signing in, you’ll be in the main ranges dashboard. You’ll need to connect your own Amazon Web Services (AWS) account to use ranges, as provisioning machines will cost money for every hour that they are active or stored. Once you’ve connected your AWS account, you can then go to “Range Templates” and launch the Heimdall range.💻🔐 Study Group Vote Revealed! Get Involved! 💻🔐
The Votes are In! This week you asked for a defensive lab for Study Group. What are we studying? This week, we've selected Web Server Logs: Ep.6 — The Tomcat's Out Of The Bagin which it'll be your job to investigate an incident by looking at web server log files. How can I get involved? Dive into the lab: Get started on the lab and challenge yourself to complete it by the end of the week. Join the discussion: Don’t forget to share your experiences, ask questions, and drop any tips or tricks you’ve picked up along the way in this forum discussion. Support each other: This is all about collaboration—whether you’re struggling with a concept or want to share an "aha" moment, jump into the conversation! We’ll re-vote on Friday for next week’s lab, so stay engaged and help shape where this study group goes. Let’s learn together and level up our skills! Every community member who has access to an Immersive license is welcome to join this study group. I'd also like to welcome our new members from last week: jaureguibooksit cmc15 sargentv pepplebryan jp4821a SCepparulo RBlv shahedanara lking2547 Yuknow312 WinChan rob_nolan ohheykhanh ChristopherRouse_80 zooooomer Benjamin LP megangrace oP 4n6cy Joeatt75 Cicada3301 Leslie_Saravia_OHD kpas1868 x0du Garyb aloharae egly443 Sam Thomas0akes Djparker SElder markbaluis07 It's great to have you here! If you're looking for a place to start in this community, partaking in Study Group is the place for you!Welcome to this week's new members!
Please join me in welcoming all of the new members who joined us this week! GeoffreyS suredizo vijayG ivdbrown vr430n nehachawla stellanut n1308854 Jitter parkash6 Giving4654 madelineebrown rnoble joel Joaks brodereck keerthikamani Malik900 nicholas_e_vazzana ATal m101 jjuel agarnier Zeba Woofski n1259691 👋🤝 It's great to have you all here and we hope that you are enjoying everything that this community has to offer. As a starting point, be sure to check out our getting started guides to help you get the most out of your membership. Looking to get involved? Check out the weekly Study Group, The Human Connection Challenge,: Season 1 and the Help & Support Forum where you can give and get peer-to-peer support.This Week In The Human Connection Community
Introducing our newest members JG Kygore Markus pronto04 Johnie111smith Subham404 athletikntel CrouchS LSatSTEWART WilliamsJ122 leonard Martin Dark_Knight666 kevindevine Jurr SlippinJimmy LastSonOfKrypton JanWF Heather0ng ✨ 👋 🚀 In case you missed it, here’s a selection of our favourite content within The Human Connection: Expert Guidance & Product Updates This month we're delighted to spotlight the new Lab Builder feature! Hear from MattParven, Immersive's Product Manager for Lab Builder, Principal Security Engineer AND Cloud Security SME as he shares this week's updates to the feature in his blog Feature Focus: Introducing Drag and Drop, Free Text Questions, and Instructional Tasks in the Lab Builder. For more on Lab Builder, see Matt's previous blog, Feature Focus: Introducing Lab Builder. Make sure to review January 2025 Release Notes provided by NathanAlder Hear from our in-house Cyber Threat Research experts KevBreen BenMcCarthy and benhopkins as they share their notes on all 10 vulnerabilities picked up in Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday. Community Events Today we announced another Valentine's special Virtual Crisis Sim! They're back by popular demand - reserve your seat to join ClemCraven & TomBoyle for #LoveHacked Virtual Crisis Sim LIVE on 14th February. Community Updates If you're new here, or just want to get the best out of this community, check out our getting started guides to help you get the most out of your membership as well as our Help Forum to get help and give help. And if you haven't already, please take a few minutes to fill in our End of Year Community Survey. Your feedback will help us to shape the future of this community. Don’t Miss A Beat - we’ll be sharing new content week on week! Hit “follow” on the blogs you love to receive a notification when new pieces drop.Cyber Resilience Advisors
Welcome to your community. Here, you can converse and ask questions to expand your knowledge of cyber and get the most out of the platform. The title of this post is "Cyber Resilience Advisors." So, what are they, and how do they help? A Cyber Resilience Advisor is a professional who guides organizations in developing and managing their cybersecurity workforce. They may assist with strategy development, talent acquisition, career development, performance management, and training for cybersecurity roles. Their ultimate goal is to ensure the organization has a highly skilled, competent, and effective cybersecurity team to protect against and respond to cyber threats. So, what am I telling you this? Immersive Labs has a multitude of SMEs across a broad spectrum of skills and professions with whom you can interact and ask questions as part of the community. I am a Cyber Resilience Advisor and part of the Cyber Resilience Team. We are on here as well. It is a cliche, but in cyber, we really are in this together; we gain security through knowledge, and here is the perfect vehicle to gain that in conjunction with the platform. I look forward to joining you all in the community and helping make your cybersecurity visions a reality, regardless of your skill sets and experience. As a community, we can accomplish anything. Clem Craven
