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Goal-Aligned Resilience Pathways: the fastest path to provable cyber readiness. Jun 25, 2026 Lead Product Marketing Manager Senior Product Manager Table of contents Welcome back to Prove It, a series spotlighting the latest AI-forward capabilities, integrations, and platform innovations helping organizations build and demonstrate cyber resilience in the AI era. Each edition highlights what's new in Immersive One, why it matters, and how it helps leaders move from assumptions to evidence as AI transforms the way people work, defend, and lead their organization. "Most leaders can build an upskilling program. Few can do it at machine speed and prove it was the right one." Rebecca, Lead Product Marketing Manager: Alyona, I want to start with something Immersive Labs Inc. hear consistently from leaders across security, L&D, and beyond. They know they need to build cyber readiness across their teams, but when they sit down to plan it out, they hit a wall. Why is that??? Alyona, Product Manager: Above all, it's a structural problem. Managers often start from a blank page and try to build an upskilling program tied to business goals without any expert guidance baked in. They're scanning content libraries, mapping exercises to threats, figuring out sequencing, all on their own. That takes time they don't have, and perhaps more importantly, results in plans they can't fully defend to their VP or CxO, let alone to the board. Rebecca: And the cost goes beyond lost time, doesn't it? If the process is manual and lacks a compass to drive meaningful outcomes, what happens to the program itself? Alyona: Confidence in program quality takes a hit. When you've built an upskilling program from scratch without structural backing or business alignment, you're quietly hoping you've made the right calls. That doubt is hard to shake, and it bubbles up fast when a CISO, Head of L&D, or AI Governance lead has to stand in front of a board and explain how the program addresses priorities that actually matter to the business. Without expert guardrails behind the decisions, that conversation gets uncomfortable. That's why Immersive Labs Inc. is launching Resilience Pathways in Immersive One. It delivers that expertise automatically and within relevant business context, giving leaders the proof they need to demonstrate effective upskilling. Rebecca: So how does the new Resilience Pathways capability address planning speed and program quality? Alyona: Expert knowledge is now built directly into the platform and working for you from the moment you log in. From this week's launch, over 30 new Resilience Pathways automatically leverage the entire Immersive One cyber content library, connecting assignments to one of ten goals. So Managers don't have to guess at structure, sequence, or what type of upskilling experience best serves the desired outcome. That alignment is done for them. Meanwhile, learners get a clear view of how their upskilling time contributes to company goals. Rebecca: The new Enterprise-Wide AI Literacy and Governance goal is a great example. Managers can deploy it in minutes rather than spending days building something equivalent from scratch. Alyona: That's right. And because the program is built on that foundation, everything that follows, the exercises, the assessments, the progress data, adds up to something a manager and their leadership team can actually report on. That's what a real proving ground looks like in practice. Introducing Resilience Pathways: from planning friction to provable outcomes with Immersive One. Leaders across every function have always known what they're trying to achieve. The gap has been everything in between: time lost to manual planning, quiet uncertainty about whether the right decisions are being made, and the difficulty of connecting upskilling activity to outcomes a board or leadership team will find meaningful. With Immersive One's release of Resilience Pathways, that gap closes automatically. Expert structure is built into every program decision, so any leader can move faster, build with confidence, and report on resilience that's been earned, not assumed. Prove your program is built on the right foundation. With Immersive One, you can: * Deploy expert-curated programs from day one: Choose from a growing library of out-of-the-box goals, from Enterprise-Wide AI Literacy and Governance to Build AI-First Developers and Detect and Respond to Incidents in AWS, each built by practitioners and ready to deploy in minutes. * Connect every upskilling decision to business goals: Each goal maps directly to the priorities your leadership team is accountable for, so every exercise builds toward something measurable rather than filling a calendar. * Access Immersive One's full cyber library: Maximize performance outcomes by combining hands-on labs and crisis simulations that align to goals. * Work from a centralized view: Track progress against defined goals in one place, with the performance data to identify gaps, adjust direction, and report upward with confidence. * Turn program completion into defensible evidence: Move from activity records to outcome proof, giving any leader something concrete to take to a board, a regulator, or an insurer. What's next. Resilience Pathways set the foundation for provable, structured cyber readiness across your organization. Any leader can now build upskilling pathways at speed, grounded in expert structure, aligned to business goals, and drawing on the full breadth of Immersive One's expert cyber library, from hands-on labs to crisis simulations. With this milestone release, the next step is to make it intelligent. With AI Program Builder, organizations will be able to build bespoke programs by describing their objectives to an AI chatbot in plain language. This capability will give any leader the ability to describe an objective and get back a precise, expert-quality program in minutes. Get started. * Already on Immersive One? Log in and navigate to the Launchpad in the platform to select your first Guided Goal and deploy your program. * Exploring Immersive One? Book a demo to see how Resilience Pathways can give your security team a faster, more defensible path to cyber resilience. Published: Jun 25, 2026 See how to prove readiness with one platform. See how Immersive One helps technical teams and leaders prove readiness, close capability gaps, benchmark progress, and report cyber resilience with confidence. By submitting this form, you acknowledge that Immersive will process your personal information in accordance with its Privacy Notice.

Beyond the era of assumed readiness: attain a new standard of cyber resilience, only with Immersive One. Cyber Resilience Strategy Contributors Chief Product Officer The industry recently confirmed what you likely already feel: the old way of training no longer meets the requirements of a modern security organization. In the Forrester Wave(TM): Cybersecurity Skills and Training Platforms, Q1 2026, Immersive was named a Leader, achieving the highest possible scores in both Strategy and Current Offering. This underscores a critical shift: completion-based training isn't enough to satisfy boards and regulators. Verifiable resilience is the only path forward. Today, Immersive Dynamics Inc. is announcing major advancements to Immersive One that enable you to attain a new standard of organizational resilience by validating real-world cyber capabilities across your workforce, technology stack, and business operations. Innovations in Secure AI, enterprise exercising, and compliance benchmarking enable you to move beyond assumed readiness and deliver objective proof of capability across your entire enterprise. Eliminate the hidden risk of assumed readiness. In my conversations with CISOs, the concern is rarely about the quality of the security stack. You've invested in best-of-breed tools like CrowdStrike, Sentinel, and Splunk. The concern is about the growing gap between owning the technology and knowing your team can execute within it under pressure, especially as AI accelerates the threat landscape. "When we founded Immersive, the goal was to solve a skills gap. But today's reality, defined by AI-driven threats, surging regulatory pressure, and the demand for board-level accountability, has changed the math," says James Hadley, its founder and Chief Innovation Officer. "Static training cannot keep pace with an adversary that iterates in real-time or a regulator that requires objective proof. We have evolved the platform because you don't need a team that passed a test last year; you need a way to prove that your people and your tools can defend against the threat that emerged this morning." By treating cyber readiness as a verifiable resilience control, you ensure your people have the skills and confidence to defend the organization using the processes and tooling you already rely on. Gain the strategic advantage: prove your capability across the modern attack surface. To address today's threats and meet board and regulatory requirements, Immersive One delivers the advancements you need to prove capability across three critical domains: Securing and governing AI adoption. As you deploy enterprise AI, your defense must keep pace with specialized AI-driven threats. You can now use advanced labs and simulations to validate your governance and response protocols before risk enters your environment. With Immersive One's Secure AI capability, you can ensure you have the relevant governance in place to protect your organization and innovate at speed. Hands-on exercises cover agentic AI, prompt injection, and data poisoning across OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and NVIDIA-enabled environments. In addition, with AI-powered crisis simulations, you can add hyper-realistic noise, uniquely pressure-testing decision-making in a crisis. Protecting the organization via vendor-enabled realism. Your teams should not practice in a vacuum. To move from assumed to proven readiness, you must validate your detection and response workflows by exercising directly within the security tools and cloud environments your SOC uses every day. Through native integrations with CrowdStrike Falcon(R), Google Security Operations, Splunk, IBM Security QRadar, and Microsoft Sentinel, your teams can now measure performance metrics in real-time. This allows you to identify and close capability gaps across your AWS, Azure, and identity-driven attack surfaces, ensuring your existing investments deliver measurable defensive outcomes. Leveraging framework-aligned evidence for benchmarking & compliance reports. To meaningfully address board-level inquiries and regulatory audits today, you need to provide defensible evidence of organizational capability. It's easier to do that when your evidence is aligned with the global frameworks your stakeholders recognize. Immersive One's framework-aligned benchmarking and reporting capabilities continue to expand. For example, heat maps and automated After-Action Reporting map performance directly to NIST-NICE, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks. Armed with this data, you can benchmark your resilience against industry peers and provide regulators with the objective proof of cyber capability they now require. Activate Your Workforce as a Measurable Security Control with Immersive One The era of assumed readiness is over. Whether you are facing a board-level inquiry or a regulatory audit, you can no longer rely on the hope that your team knows what to do. You need the data to prove resilience. As its CEO, Mark Schmitz, often reminds Immersive Dynamics Inc., "organizational resilience is no longer defined by the tools you deploy, but by your ability to respond effectively under real-world conditions." By securing AI adoption and automating compliance benchmarking, Immersive One provides the proof of resilience that boards and regulators now demand. Discover why Immersive One is the market leader, uniquely equipping organizations to achieve cyber resilience with verifiable readiness capabilities. Book a 1:1 demo to learn how Immersive Dynamics Inc. can support you, no matter where you are on your cyber resilience journey.

Immersive Dynamic Threat Range for cyber resilience. Immersive has announced the general availability of its latest feature, Dynamic Threat Range, a significant addition to the Immersive One platform designed to revolutionise how organisations validate and enhance their cyber preparedness. This new capability facilitates authentic, full-chain live-fire attacks within supported enterprise environments, surpassing the realism offered by traditional log replays. The technology is underpinned by a new Infrastructure-as-Code foundation, enabling vast and intricate real-world simulations and offering quantifiable insights into team detection and response under pressure. Continuous cyber resilience. The Dynamic Threat Range provides an ideal setting for developing cyber readiness and fostering long-term resilience. By converting performance into actionable insights, it ensures that each exercise bolsters the abilities and confidence of teams across various facets, including personnel, processes, and technology. * Training under real conditions: It enables investigative and detection exercises within supported enterprise Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems such as Elastic and Splunk, ensuring that training is both relevant and applicable. * Measurement of critical metrics: The platform allows for the quantification of readiness using objective, evidence-based metrics like Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR), providing tangible evidence of improvement and return on investment. * Focus on pertinent threats: Users can access scenarios that are tailored to reflect the techniques and threat actors most relevant to their specific organisational environment. * Preparation for resilience: It helps in building the necessary confidence and teamwork required to respond effectively during incidents, thereby boosting the overall readiness of an organisation. Aniket Menon, Chief Product Officer at Immersive, commented, "For years, security teams have been forced to train in environments that don't reflect their real-world and ever-evolving attack surface. Dynamic Threat Range changes that." "By enabling exercises within an organisation's actual SIEM and network technologies, we're giving leaders and technical teams verifiable, data-backed proof of readiness, and finally moving the industry from 'we think we're ready' to 'we know we're ready.'" Dynamic Threat Range capability. This launch underlines Immersive's commitment to delivering continuous, evidence-based cyber resilience. The Dynamic Threat Range feature allows CISOs and security leaders to both demonstrate and enhance readiness confidently. Additionally, it opens up new revenue prospects for partners through services like pre-sales readiness assessments and post-incident benchmarking. Looking ahead, planned developments include support for Microsoft Sentinel, advanced tools for creating custom exercises, and AI-driven communication analysis, which are expected to expand the platform's benchmarking and automation capabilities by early 2026. Find out about secure physical access control systems through layered cybersecurity practices.