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 fromMattParven, 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 blogFeature 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 Notesprovided 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 joinClemCraven & TomBoyle for #LoveHacked Virtual Crisis Sim LIVEon 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 ourEnd 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.Welcome to this week's new members!
Please join me in welcoming all of the new members who joined us this week! SheRa Mroxana redreturn Chicanery mysterylie Loganmf SBF00 jspiegelbe sidi7 Nick_The_Grey kikasudo Matt1234545 Monika1 peter Palaract MrReaper sammy 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 ourgetting started guides to help you get the most out of your membership. And if you haven't already, please take a few minutes to fill in ourEnd of Year Community Survey. Your feedback will help us to shape the future of this community.Welcome to all of our new members!
Please join me in welcoming all of the new users who joined us over the holiday season! CyberSailing PL3IADES Marieox Eliseu_Lucas ifeanyiukadike GeoffereyOfori audeyisaacscba BigLight BigLight66 CyberPUNK mwatkins Sidharth4u 👋 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. If you have any questions, just comment below 👇Happy Holidays from Immersive Labs
To all the community, we would like to wish you all a warm and wonderful holiday season and a happy new year. 2024 has been a whirlwind of growth, connection and collaboration, and we're so grateful that you've helped us build such an awesome community - high-five to you! We're excited to share all of the plans we have for 2025 and for the things we'll achieve together. Oh, and welcome to our newest members: secdan TrinityWarrior Whateve Ethanhuang33 skocherhan hanzawhtun chanthuli binoy SJSUNDE AbdulM Com_Anba ivansilva luffynpc Jordan darkmacheken ryanolearynorm jeffreywilliamsonDanielJakobsson cw lrob Dillon miclib carlosgalvis pagepeterson ZCostello JoelD BSingh4 Gxnnelle MichL Teno Dirge ZK shreyasjoshi CL willr rusio mikep55 AbdulR JS L33465 taruniverse ShayOX talnet23 emomartin 👋 Happy holidays everyone ✨Welcome!
This week, we're pleased to welcome new members: Becomingcybergril1 leadtheway01 SpecTechal sabil10 justpickaname Stratus AL JoelBethel bf7750 kamaleshjagadeesan90 WilliamM Asasejk01 mrasdf schmadam mounir Harland2007 azshah roguptahsc doriangray8000 mohamedreda Sofien jameslock1976 ancobani jc2183 jacquesviljoen RyanL Greg Simon Xat amalizzzle Anon4Ever MarcioMota jcmiller Donny123 DaniWaugh oezersarilar LawrenceChang 0trust 👋 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 newgetting started guides to help you get the most out of your membershipand make sure tofollowthis December'sCyber Countdown, where we'll be unwrapping fresh content, including TODAY's webinar, and shining the spotlight on our favourite content from 2024.A warm welcome to our newest members
The community has grown this week, so please join me in welcoming: marvtl amina Karl GurdeepCheema1Sheapndr 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.This Week in The Human Connection
Happy thanksgiving and welcome to this week's new members 👋 gstewart CalumS Cyberwomen JT Devlin1885- altmanoi tupacmarley pengellyd Richard-B_2 yesh KhayCee sle CyberAnt na lwhopkinson Aaron Doris Jeff777 edgarloredo posewadone KwintenB BrianL Mary2512 Elf FurnaceDeceiver TurnyStark MC1976 AnnieF cyc1ark MiriamGA robpetri MartynStyles NHSLucy CH405 SergiuO2 RustyBadger Iain-141N samp746 EmmaR Nermin CF918576 It's great to have you all here and we hope that you are enjoying exploring our community. Check out our newgetting 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 0xP4prykwas 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 toudhavwho 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 ourCyber 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,followtheCOUNTDOWN 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 DecemberJonPaulGabrielewill be hosting another of hisfantastic 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 theHelp & 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! KieranThis Week in The Human Connection
Welcome to all of the new members who joined us this week 👋 erinkm ZachErdmann Hazzy Cyberia Reini2512 TeaAddictHacker ladac293 mcbmnt DannyC sr149 David_A_Accenture c021 CurlieSue AndyMc CyberShark pbogu HighPeachFelidae936 AwamiHadi gmkingsley Gene chasepd gunavane catsm7 JChanner123 azehnev Angbrentford Carlossus interupt19 0xP4pryk It's great to have you all here and we hope that you are enjoying exploring our community. Check out our new guides to help you get started. 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 There's only a few days left to completeEpisode 1 of The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1. For your chance to climb the leaderboard and earn exclusive rewards, don't delay! 🧠 Expert Guidance This week MarieHargravesLead Cyber Resilience Advisor, shared an article on how one of her customers uses our Cyber Team Simulation solution to benchmark their cyber capabilities nationally. And community regular BenMcCarthyshared two new CTI labs that were released within 24 hours of CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 being released. 📅 Exclusive Events 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. 🚀 Product Updates November Release Notes Come and see what we have been working on throughout November. Immerse Yourself: Customer Roadmap Overview Yesterday we held our November Roadmap Webinar. Don't worry if you missed it, you can still meet the product team and our new CTO, Thanos Karpouzis, and get up to speed on recent and upcoming roadmap plans from the Immersive Labs Team by watching the recording here. Note: This is a customer-exclusive event. If you’re an employee in one of our customer organisations but can't access the event please reach out toKieranRowley 🤝 Help & Support Over in the Help & Support Forum we have a few unanswered questions, can you help? schmitty is looking for some hints onSuperSonic: Ep.6 – TEMPLE GusC could do with a hand on Events & Breaches: Magecart Skimmer Have a great weekend! KieranThis Week in The Human Connection
Welcome to all of our new members 👋 JH edelweissexploit jagira DESTINE PedroCollado kcetcbesu m0ns00n DaveBrine Oouasmi JWB2025 rfrymire chrismoore cyb3rry ijunki3 netcat Milan PascalNa Anonymous Magnus ImreSolymosi umb444fam adrianJ lupolder tbemwa Bob PatelEE gokulm08 Hazzy Precious It's great to have you all here and we hope that you are enjoying exploring our community. Check out our brand new guides to help you get started. 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 There's only 1 week left to completeEpisode 1 of The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1. For your chance to climb the leaderboard and earn exclusive rewards, don't delay! Expert Guidance Patch Tuesday This weekBenMcCarthy and NatSilva and the rest of the Cyber Threat Research crew put out their monthly Patch Tuesday review. Exclusive Events Cyber Drills Our very own Mr. WorldwideDanPotter reflected on his experiences delivering Cyber Drills around the globe. If you haven’t been to one of these fantastic events yet, keep an eye on the website. Product Updates Immerse Yourself: Customer Roadmap Overview Join us on Thursday 21st November for our next Roadmap Webinar. Note: This is a customer-exclusive event. If you’re an employee in one of our customer organisations but can't access the event please reach out to KieranRowley Help & Support This week we've been discussing Threat Hunting with Splunk, OWASP ZAP and Reverse Engineering to name but a few topics. But the following questions still haven't been solved, can you help? netcat is looking for help with WinDbg WinDbg: Ep.3 – Debugging Malware WinDbg: Ep.4 – Debugging a Windows Crash WinDbg: Ep.5 – Kernel Internals AtakanBal has some questions about CVE-2022-29799/CVE-2022-29800 (Nimbuspwn) – Defensive rfrymire needs help with Node.js lupolder could use a hint on Zeek - Demonstrate Your SkillsThis Week in The Human Connection
Firstly, a very warm welcome to this week's new members 👋 KBobble Anonymous MacWarren wubzydadbod KelvinK ker OverClocked udhav Vladyslav RobN boulton ABH93 -jlo- harish-nayani In case you missed it, here’s a selection of our favourite content from The Human Connection this week: Community Updates Introducing The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1 This week saw the release of the very first lab in The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1. Each month you’ll be given the chance to showcase your cybersecurity skills across a range of topics and climb the Season 1 Leaderboard over the course of 7 labs. Challenge accepted? How about a little more competition for GusC & udhav?! Crisis Ready: Mastering the Design and Execution of Simulation for Real-World Resilience Thanks to all who attended last Friday's crisis sim masterclass webinar. If you missed it or simply want to refresh your memory, you can watch the recording here. An extra special thanks to those who submitted questions to the panel. If your question didn't get answered during the webinar, we've posted the questions, along with answers from JonPaulGabriele our Crisis Sim Lead over in the Help & Support Forum. Christmas Crisis Sim Showdown Votes Revealed 🥁🎄 Last Friday, we released a poll for your favourite Christmas-themed Crisis Sim scenario and we're excited to share that after counting the votes, Christmas Tree-son is the winning scenario! JonPaulGabriele will now put this scenario into production in time for December... Watch this space on news to participate in the virtual crisis sim! Expert Guidance New CTI Lab: CRON#TRAP – Linux Environment Emulation CTI extraordinaire BenMcCarthy has dropped an article about our newest CTI Lab: CRON#TRAP – Linux Environment Emulation. The article explores how a malicious actor has been gaining access to endpoints through the use of phishing and a virtual machine. Check it out now! Feature Focus: Introducing the AI Scenario Generator New feature alert! Product Manager EmmaWalker announced the AI Scenario Generator in her feature focus article. The AI feature will be released on12 November for Crisis Sim customers. Read Emma's article for best practice and guidance with the AI Scenario Generator. Here at Immersive HQ, we're always listening out for user feedback to improve our products, and are specifically seeking feedback from customers who create crisis sims and who might use the AI Scenario Generator. If this is you, head to PamelaSmith latest post to sign yourself up! Discussions As always, we love to see community users supporting one another on this platform & we want to extend a special thanks to those who have gone out of their way to help a community peer, either in our Help & Support Forum or Cyber Million Forum. If you’ve got the know how and want to climb the Immersive Legend ladder, head to the Answer Questionstab! Don't forget, you’ll need to be logged in to comment on posts. Simply head to the top-right of the page to register or sign in. Add your username, avatar and bio in your settings, and you're good to go!
