Immersive Labs Launches Cyber Crisis Simulator to Improve Incident Response

New product allows for regular virtual cross-team exercising in preparation for critical cyber-attacks

BOSTON & BRISTOL, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Immersive Labs, the company empowering organizations to equip, exercise, and evidence human cyber capabilities, today announced an industry-first solution to create better-drilled crisis response across institutions of all sizes. Cyber Crisis Simulator will allow people to virtually test their organization’s reactions to the latest real-world attacks and is designed to be relevant to everyone from legal and communications teams, to cybersecurity specialists.

While cyber incidents may be played out on technological platforms, the effectiveness of the human response dictates their impact on company value. Immersive Labs’ new Cyber Crisis Simulator aims to improve this human element. True to the company’s underlying platform, the product drops decision-makers into a range of real-life scenarios and asks them to make crucial decisions along the way. Choices such as whether to pay the ransom in a ransomware attack or when to inform the regulator, all impact the team’s overall exercise score and simulated company share price and reputation.

“The success of an organization’s cyber crisis response is predicated on being well-prepared. As we have seen, it can be the difference between successfully addressing an issue and a share price collapse,” said James Hadley, CEO of Immersive Labs. “Coupled with the pace of the threat landscape, this means regular training for a broad range of stakeholders outside of just technical and security teams is important. This is exactly what Cyber Crisis Simulator has been designed for.”

Until now, this type of in-depth, crisis simulation training was only available via costly, time-consuming table-top exercises. With the Cyber Crisis Simulator, this can be delivered through a browser, allowing senior management a resource that will consistently improve and measure cyber awareness.

To learn more, tune into our webinar with SC Media tomorrow, July 21 at 11 am ET / 4 pm BST or visit our website here.

About Immersive Labs

Immersive Labs is empowering organizations to equip, exercise, and evidence human cyber capabilities. We provide metrics that give security leaders insight into human cyber skills and readiness levels across their organization and improve these through dynamic labs and crisis scenarios which track the threat landscape. Immersive Labs is backed by Goldman Sachs and Summit Partners and our customers include some of the largest companies in financial services, healthcare, and Government, amongst others.

For more information on Immersive Labs’ offering, please visit www.immersivelabs.com.