This Week in The Human Connection: Cybersecurity Results Month - Week 4
Let's start by welcoming this week's new members 👋 Manumvs Bluesman Msak brightbond sergioverges Gautam Cyb3rM0nK3y Ap LiamM hobbyhunter Raikia tacobacocrunchwrap3 AJinUK Mel m1zt3rIL ColeS gdellunto barkingseal mateyo6098 octo55 A-Rai-Col ot truonpa Cyndy Bala dkhaze7411 Phish_Taco Las009 mhuijting It's so great to see our community growing and we hope that you are all enjoying exploring what it has to offer. In case you missed it, here’s a selection of our favourite content from The Human Connection this week: Cybersecurity Awareness Results Month - Week 4 This October at Immersive we’re flipping the script. Say goodbye to Awareness Month and hello to Cybersecurity Results Month. Come and see what we have planned. Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Customer Awards! This week, we celebrated the organizations and individuals who have shown exceptional dedication to learning and defending against emerging threats, building organizational resilience and pushing the boundaries of their cybersecurity knowledge through the Immersive Labs platform. Go and give the winners some well-deserved recognition over in the blog comments! steven & prbare amongst this year's winners 👏🏆 Exclusive Events 🎤 Don't miss today's event, Virtual Crisis Sim: Puppet Master's Revenge, followed by a deeper dive with JonPaulGabrieleClemCravenTomBoyle at Crisis Ready: Mastering the Design and Execution of Simulation for Real-World Resilience. Here, our experts will teach you the art of designing and executing impactful crisis simulations at our very first ✨community exclusive✨ event! Don't forget to sign up and submit your questions to the panel in advance! Looking forward, we're excited to take our Cyber Drills Roadshow to three new cities, Zurich, Dallas & Toronto next week. Make sure to say hi to CourtneyGuss , JamieKnobles & DanPotter if you're planning on being there. Expert Guidance EllaBendrickChartier shared an invaluable resource for managers about how to Balance Your Business with the Buzz of the latest CVEs in the news. Ella shares suggested learning paths by sector, doing the hard work for you! 🐝 BenMcCarthy is back with more brand-new CTI labs, this time on Cobalt Strike Host Forensics and SIEM Analysis. In these labs, you can learn how to defend against the prolific C2 framework! 🛡️ Community Events This week KieranRowley attended the CyberFirst Bursary Career Fair to spread the word of Cyber Million and meet with both applicants and employment partners. We have a dedicated Cyber Million forum and blog within this community, so if you're on the program, want to find out more, or want to share your experience with Cyber Million, we'd love to hear from you! Community Updates Many members have posted their questions to the Help & Support Forum this week - if you’ve got the know how and want to climb the Immersive Legend ladder, head to the Answer Questions tab! 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!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 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! KieranWeekly Round-Up in The Human Connection
Weekly Round-Up This week, we welcomed a wealth of new members to the community. It's great to have you all here! ✨ 👋 🚀 In case you missed it, here’s a selection of our favourite content from The Human Connection this week: Cyber Security Awareness Results Month Get the rundown of what’s happening at Immersive Labs this October for Cybersecurity Results Month and register for one of our events! We'll share weekly insights throughout October here in The Human Connection. Be a part of it! Cybersecurity Results Month Cyber Threat Intelligence Our world-class Cyber Threat Research team have been busy releasing new lab content at the speed of cyber. Hear from our Lead Cybersecurity Engineer BenMcCarthy , who announced the drop of these new labs and shared expert insights into the vulnerabilities: New CTI Lab: CVE-2024-30051 (Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege) – Defensive New CTI Lab: CVE-2024-38112 and CVE-2024-43461 (Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing): Defensive Expert Guidance KitHudson examined CVE-2024-3094, a critical vulnerability in on Linux systems and shares practical steps to protect your systems, as well as related Immersive Labs content to help you upskill: Understanding CVE-2024-3094: A Major Software Security Issue in XZ Utils Product Updates Get the latest product and content updates here in The Human Connection. If you're a customer, you'll be able to access hot-off-the-press release notes in the Learn blog every month: September 2024 Release Notes Community Updates clermagic224schmittyshubham Mail and User sought answers in the Help & Support Forum, while NigelWright posted his latest cyber read in the Community Forum. Want to share your expertise? Share your thoughts on their posts, and why not Introduce Yourself on our Director of Community, KieranRowleypost? Don't Miss a Beat - we’ll be sharing new content every week! Follow our blogs so that you never miss an update when a new article is published. To follow a blog, click the bell icon 🔔 at the top of any blog that you want to follow. Get your Team in on this Have you spotted an article you wish you could share with your team, or have a few in mind who’d love to engage with The Human Connection? Invite your friends and colleagues! All you need to do is direct them to community.immersivelabs.comcommunity.immersivelabs.comCommunity Launched!
I'm excited to announce the launch of our new Immersive Labs community, The Human Connection! We founded Immersive Labs to empower the world's largest organizations with the knowledge, skills, and judgment necessary to confront rising cyber attacks. In service of that mission, our new community gives customers and other cyber professionals like you a hub to support each other and collaborate on solutions. Together, we can join forces to make the world a more secure, resilient place. I encourage you to continue to ask questions and share your expertise with other members. Many thanks, Your CEO & Founder of Immersive Labs JamesThis Week in The Human Connection: Cybersecurity Results Month - Week 5
Welcome to this week's new members 👋 Dougout lchenliang kpipinis z00peckteaball ykarri1984 RS KaytiH mkelaher annawallace djizzy emmabarclay gswiss andrew22 SDias VeraK Em666 msyyc millsk phil_w tarjahuttunen cybertester moha24649 justajolt jdbtee ra T3S0r0 Hani cammy gillmc Pak_Li EPEREZ mixonc GVSUrange Balen_2003 Luke davebennett Regolodeon tillebak noobr rodantony55 BeluczakDelmar JoeP cavis Sawicki arshad LizB MarkBedford ruarimacgregor clermagic225 smathers5 CM FelipeST jbright tbennett702 luketap Samuel taradelargy Kmerz5 Tom_s autom8on NickDrage sconway preciousm GrahamHedley BrianTraversSSU garypowers jcowanjr Berrow It's great to have you here and we hope you'll gain from this space to share industry knowledge, insights, resources and expertise. In case you missed it, here’s a selection of our favourite content from The Human Connection this week: Cybersecurity Results Month This week marked the final week of our Cybersecurity Results Month celebrations, and it went out with a bang as many of you took to Toronto, Dallas and Zurich to take part in our Cyber Drills Roadshow and earn your challenge coin. Here's the event in action in Zurich! Crisis Ready: Mastering the Design and Execution of Simulation for Real-World Resilience Today's the day! Come and join JonPaulGabriele TomBoyle & ClemCraven behind the curtain and learn the art of designing and executing impactful crisis simulations in this interactive webinar. Don't forget to register to attend and submit your questions to our expert panel here. Expert Guidance The CTI legend BenMcCarthy has dropped a brand new CTI Lab: Typelib: COM Persistence and shares the significance of it in his blog article. The content aims to educate SOC analysts, incident responders, threat hunters and malware analysts on recognizing and defending against the persistent technique. Solutions Consultant EvanStockmon made his debut in The Human Connection with insights into How Assess & Recommend can Unlock your Potential. If you haven't used the Immersive Labs Assess & Recommend feature, go and check out this blog to find out how you can leverage it within your organisaton to create personalised learning paths aligned to NIST NICE Framework. Discussions We love to see more and more of you coming to the Help & Support Forum to collaborate on lab challenges and more. If you want that warm fuzzy feeling of having your answer marked as an accepted solution the come and share your expertise and help your fellow community members progress with Immersive Labs. AtakanBal Fastlime & IronLady18 are still seeking hints. Community Updates The November Community Newsletter is here! KieranRowley shared reflections from the past month, including our customer awards, expert insights shared within the community and of course highlighting those who are contributing to this wonderful collective of cyber knowledge. Christmas Crisis Sim Showdown! We're excited to announce that we'll be producing a brand new Christmas-themed crisis simulation, but we need your help to choose which one will make it to the top! You now have the opportunity to vote for your favourite Christmas-themed crisis sim within the community. The winner will to be put into production by our Crisis Sim Lead, JonPaulGabrieleand released in December... Go go go! 🎄🎅Welcome to YOUR Community!
I am excited to welcome our Immersive Labs customers and enthusiasts to this fantastic new community - another exciting milestone in our partnership with you 🤝 We created this space to foster human connections, so that all of our valued customers have the opportunity to collaborate, communicate, and ask questions directly to us and to other customers 💬 I am truly honoured to be part of this digital journey with you, and I look forward with anticipation to the conversations, ideas, and innovation we can cultivate together💡 Your Chief Customer Officer, JulieThis 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 complete Episode 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 to KieranRowley 🤝 Help & Support Over in the Help & Support Forum we have a few unanswered questions, can you help? schmitty is looking for some hints on SuperSonic: Ep.6 – TEMPLE GusC could do with a hand on Events & Breaches: Magecart Skimmer Have a great weekend! KieranWelcome new members!
Hello and welcome to our newest members: S1m0n07 JemimaOluok cbathula ILABS-RECRUIT Abed CacheMeIfYouCan Kratos pschmidt d0nk33 Tempest mydmimmo deviceix kungfuhud sacnit ramamr33 James continent9872 l_marin DpseHope L0maD MilesEvans mrgash remusS seandmr xwuzex tkmh coltonmike JMATE Jsoaps ShonePious PrakharC TT nickw101 crfilimon coatezy Nathan To get things off the ground check out our Get Started page, introduce yourself to the community and when you're ready, explore! We have some fantastic events coming up over the next few weeks, so make sure to take a look.This Week in The Human Connection
Welcome to our new members this week charlene csheasby1 johndoe321 NHK NnekaAN1 mariusm JasDo silvaroohub f_alharthi94 CyberSharpe Johnleigbe Elyes-Ferjani elnara777 mavec natelott cloudshieldtech eam2nd me5382 PabloRocaRigazzio CF917192 faheemshahid tayfun xaxanoulis13 jameel RakanBarakat LN1 Kdemetr OmarAlRashdi woodsk518 TH3C0D3B734K37 ekoo we're glad to have you here ✨ 👋 In case you missed it, here’s a selection of our favourite content from The Human Connection this week: Community Events Join JonPaulGabriele ClemCraven & TomBoyle for this exclusive backstage webinar, a week on from the Puppet Master’s Revenge virtual Crisis Sim event this Cybersecurity Results Month. Our experts will share tips for planning and executing your own Crisis Simulation, so you can walk away ready to plan your own exercise. Register for Crisis Ready Webinar: Mastering the Design and Execution of Simulation for Real-World Resilience here. Here’s one for our growing community in Bristol! Have you always wanted to get into tech but haven’t been sure where to start? Perhaps you’re considering a career change, or are currently undertaking our Cyber Million program. An introduction to Entry to Tech: Bristol Edition with Coding Black Females is one not to miss. Come along to learn more about Entry to Tech and listen to our graduates talk about their journeys into tech, what it’s like doing a Coding Black Females bootcamp, how to apply and much more. Immersive Labs' Cyber Drills Roadshow is going (even more) global! Zurich, Charlotte and Dallas have been confirmed as additional locations for our Cyber Drills Roadshow taking place this Cybersecurity Results Month - reserve your seat now! Expert Guidance In her article Cozy Bear? Not So Cozy... EllaBendrickChartier explores the tactics and techniques used by the Cozy Bear threat actor group in their recent exploits and highlights content to help your teams stay resilient against the attack vectors used by the group, complete with bear puns. Lead Cybersecurity Engineer, BenMcCarthy shared hot-off-the-press details on the Linux RCE that was leaked and released early and announced our new CTI Lab covering this, all within 24 hours! Check it out. Like this content? Share it out to your teams and follow The Human Connection blog so that you never miss an update when a new article is published. To follow a blog, click the bell icon 🔔 at the top of any blog that you want to follow. Community Updates This week, the Help & Support Forum saw discussions and solutions from cross-site scripting to public key infrastructure. Do you have experience with Detection Engineering? If so, why not share your expertise with f_alharthi94 on their question Introduction to Detection Engineering: Ep.5 – Custom Alerting. Want to share your expertise but haven’t registered an account with The Human Connection? If you're not logged in, you cannot comment or interact with posts in the community. 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!This Week in The Human Connection: Cybersecurity Results Month - Week 1
As always, welcome to all of our new members: CITechRPM Patrick Today aarsoto Levisred Polquheys33 AtakanBal Akshay wa7a4h TSR dawnmoullet middlewareuk TravisArmstrong jonathanwashington31 Apollo AkshithRai007 AndyMckay MaryH sutra sarahmanchester paivalilly Juliensallard st20316756 sarahgucci Jraine it's great to see you here ✨ 👋 In case you missed it, here’s a selection of our favourite content from The Human Connection this week: Cybersecurity Awareness Results Month - Week 1 This October at Immersive we’re flipping the script. Say goodbye to Awareness Month and hello to Cybersecurity Results Month. Come and see what we have planned: Cybersecurity Results Month To kick things off, Gregg Ogden, Principal Product Marketing Manager at Immersive Labs and Marty Momdjian, General Manager, EVP at Semperis hosted a webinar on building effective cyber drilling programs. You can watch the recording right here in the community: Hone Your Human Edge: How to Build an Effective Cyber Drills Program We also ran a Cyber Drill in London, which I had the pleasure of attending. Here's what I learned about the power of community in cybersecurity: Cyber Drill London: The Power of Community in Cybersecurity What do you have planned this Cybersecurity Results Month? Come and tell us all about it and share your ideas with the rest of the community: Cybersecurity Results Month: What Are Your Plans? Expert Guidance Here in the community, KitHudson, Senior Customer Experience Manager at Immersive Labs, examined CVE-2024-1086, a recently discovered privilege escalation vulnerability affecting various Linux distributions: Unpacking CVE-2024-1086: A Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Product Updates Over in the Product Updates Blog, RobertKlentzerisSenior Application Security Engineer at Immersive Labs, announced the long awaited Kotlin for Android Secure Coding Lab Collection. You'll need to be signed in as a customer to read this article: New Kotlin for Android Secure Coding Lab Collection Community Updates Over the last few weeks we’ve had some great questions come in over on the Help & Support Forum. Did you know you can filter discussions by “No Solution Yet” and rise up the ranks by being the first to help your fellow community members. 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! Have a great weekend everybody Kieran
