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Immersive Labs Acquires Snap Labs To Improve Cyber Simulations With New Depth And Realism

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Immersive Labs, the firm empowering enterprises to constantly monitor and optimise their whole workforce’s cyber capabilities, announced the acquisition of Snap Labs. The deal gives enterprises seeking to enhance their cyber knowledge, skills, and decisions, allowing them to create multi-player simulations tailored to certain situations and roles.

The acquisition emphasizes the importance of developing human capabilities that represent the unique characteristics of each firm, from executive to technical teams. Cyber risk is effectively mitigated by gaining cyber knowledge, skills, and judgement customized to individual elements such as technical environments and regulatory requirements.

Clients will be able to run labs and cyber crisis practices in a cloud-based replica of their own business with specific vendors using the newly integrated platform. This also gives technical teams the chance to collaborate in a large virtual environment as part of larger exercises including executive decision-makers.

When combined with the rest of the Immersive Labs platform, enterprises will be able to build a continuous cycle of human cyber capacity improvement. The cyber knowledge, skills, and judgement of the entire staff can keep pace with risk, empowering them to be employed strategically for the first time, with frequent exercising and evidencing against internal and anonymised peer benchmark data.

“From day one we have believed in the power of immersive experiences. Whether you are a CEO wrestling with the wicked problems of a cyber crisis exercise or a malware analyst decompiling the latest APT, nothing is better for building and evidencing cyber knowledge, skills and judgement,” said James Hadley, CEO of Immersive Labs.   

“The acquisition of Snap Labs doubles down on this, allowing customers to build better cyber workforces with richly detailed realistic experiences pinpointed to the risk they face. We welcome the team to Immersive Labs and look forward to building on our joint vision together.”  

Chris Myers, Co-Founder, said, “Snap Labs has always strived to provide the most realistic environments and training experiences for cybersecurity teams. Immersive Labs’ vision to build cyber knowledge, skills, and judgement across the entire workforce is remarkably aligned with our own, and we’re extremely excited to bring our technology into their platform. The two platforms are a natural fit, and by combining them we hope to help our customers build even more resilience against cyber threats.” 

Nightdragon Partners With Diversity And Inclusion Companies To Advance Industry Talent

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NightDragon, a specialized cybersecurity, security, safety, and privacy investment and consulting company has partnered with leading diversity and talent development organizations, including the Athena Alliance, Cyber Future Foundation (CFF) and Cybersecurity Gatebreakers Foundation (CGF) to expand talent and develop diversity and inclusion initiatives across its portfolio companies and the industry.

NightDragon will partner with the Athena Alliance, CFF, CGF, and other organizations to expand diversity and inclusion activities in its portfolio companies, such as talent acquisition, executive education, career training, and mentorship. It will continue to cooperate with these organizations on industry regulation to boost diversity and inclusion initiatives more widely.

Dave DeWalt, Founder and Managing Director, NightDragon said, “Improving diversity and inclusion is one of the most critical issues facing our industry today. By working together with organizations like the Athena Alliance, the Cyber Future Foundation and the Cybersecurity Gatebreakers Foundation, we hope to help build more diverse companies, leading to stronger cultures, increased company growth and better technology development to combat today’s biggest threats.”

Coco Brown, CEO and Founder, the Athena Alliance said, “Our industry has made progress around improvement of diversity and inclusion, but there is still much more work to be done. We look forward to working closely with NightDragon and its portfolio companies to further these efforts across the industry, as well as help them tap into the full potential that a diverse and vibrant company culture can provide.”

Val Mukherjee, Chairman and Founder of Cyber Future Foundation said “At CFF, we recognize that a global and comprehensive approach is needed to solve the cybersecurity workforce challenges and remove barriers to career entry, while helping leaders find new approaches to staff and up-skill their teams. We are proud to work with venture capital firms like NightDragon, as well as commercial, public and private sector, other nonprofits and academic organizations to build stronger company cultures and businesses with the ultimate goal of reducing cybercrime threats.”

“Closing the cybersecurity skills gap requires our industry to break down the traditional gates in cybersecurity – the years of experience, the computer science degrees, and the litany of security certifications that we for years have thought necessary to begin a career in cybersecurity. We need to teach people how to discover the untapped talent that is everywhere around us; people just need a chance. The Cybersecurity Gatebreakers Foundation looks forward to working closely with NightDragon and its portfolio companies to close the cybersecurity talent gap while helping CISOs and hiring managers find, train and retain great cybersecurity talent,” said Naomi Buckwalter, Founder and Executive Director of Cybersecurity Gatebreakers Foundation.

These partnerships are the newest additions to the NightDragon Network’s ND Talent program, which aims to provide value and advantages to portfolio firms while also addressing high-priority areas including talent hiring, diversity, and retention. These advantages will be available only to portfolio businesses, and NightDragon intends to expand its resources as needed.

Degreed and Cybrary formed partnership to provide integrated cybersecurity learning experiences

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Cybrary, a cybersecurity employee development platform, and Degreed, the upskilling platform that connects learning to opportunities, formed a strategic partnership to produce a more comprehensive integrated learning process for cybersecurity experts devoted to cyber skill development.

The partnership will offer a smooth integration across the Cybrary and Degreed platforms, as well as give cybersecurity experts access to the most extensive and comprehensive collection of cybersecurity learning content presently available.

By making Cybrary’s entire library of Learning Paths available through Degreed Plans, learners can build their cybersecurity competencies through a balance of expert-led training and experiential learning. Cybrary will provide Degreed clients with a personalised consultation to assess each company’s unique training requirements as part of the deal.

Degreed clients can collaborate with Cybrary to develop a strategy that matches to organization’s strategic learning goals with precise knowledge, skills and abilities that are required for each job function, as well as identify workforce gaps.

“Partnering with a growing company like Degreed is a fantastic opportunity not only for us at Cybrary, but also our collective global community. The recent major breaches only adds fuel to the fire in meeting the demands for cybersecurity skills growth to combat ongoing threats. This partnership is another step in the right direction in supporting the frontline cybersecurity professional,” said Wesley Samuel III, Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Cybrary.

“The Degreed team is excited to partner with Cybrary to help solve the issues plaguing security training and cyber skill development. As more of our lives are digitized, cyber security skills have become increasingly sought after and this partnership provides Degreed clients and users with the resources they need to meet new demands,” said Rob Wellington, Head of Experience Partnerships at Degreed.

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