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Immersive vs Living Security

Immersive sells Immersive One, which tests how people, AI-enabled workflows, security teams, and agents perform under pressure. Living Security sells a platform that reads signals from the security tools its customers already run to reveal human and agent risk, and guides the response. CISO Tribune files both under Security awareness training and Human risk management. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Immersive vs Living Security: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
ImmersiveImmersive sells Immersive One, which tests how people, AI-enabled workflows, security teams, and agents perform under pressure.immersivelabs.comLiving SecurityLiving Security sells a platform that reads signals from the security tools its customers already run to reveal human and agent risk, and guides the response.livingsecurity.com
What it sells
  • Immersive One[3][4][5][9][12]Immersive One tests how people, AI-enabled workflows, security teams, and agents perform under pressure.
  • Hands-On Labs[6][10]Browser-based environments where an individual completes a real security task against live systems and tooling.
  • Cyber Drills[3][7][13]Cyber Drills recreate real incidents across people, process, and technology.
  • Cyber Range Exercises[7]Cyber Range Exercises are typically run with technical and SOC teams.
  • Resilience Pathways[10]A Resilience Pathway is a structured, role-based development journey that maps current capability to the skills a role requires.
  • AI Knowledge Pass[2][10]AI Knowledge Pass validates a person's AI-related knowledge before they're granted access to AI tools.
  • Resilience Score[3][6]Resilience Score quantifies an organization's ability to detect, respond to, and recover from cyber threats.
  • Livvy[5][10]Livvy proposes the next move, and the customer's team approves it.
  • Phishing simulation[5][7]Phishing simulation aimed by the customer's risk data, not its calendar.
  • Human Risk Management Framework[5]An open framework of 137 signals, open to everyone under CC BY 4.0.
  • Living Security SCIM[8]Account provisioning that follows the SCIM 2.0 standard.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesAustin, United States[2]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2017[1][4]
Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • March 24, 2026Living Security announced general availability of its AI-native human risk management platform, which extends risk management to both human employees and AI agents.[9]
  • March 12, 2026Living Security announced that Edna Conway has joined the company as Executive Advisor.[11]
  • January 14, 2026Living Security launched Livvy, an AI intelligence engine for its AI-native human risk management platform, made available in beta.[10]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[14]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
Financial services organizations are addressed directly, with a focus on proving cyber readiness to Boards, C-level executives, and regulators. Application security programs aimed at developers who need to prove and improve secure coding skills form a further audience. Access to capabilities depends on the customer's agreed scope and deployment model.From its own pages, Living Security sells to organisations that already run security tools, from which it reads signals to reveal human and agent risk. Our reading is that the platform serves security teams that keep the final decision on responses, since approvals stay with the customer's team. The workforce Living Security describes includes people in business functions such as finance, with an accounts payable lead given as an example. Our reading is that Living Security sells to organisations running AI agents alongside people, with every agent held to an accountable owner.
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November 8, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Immersive and Living Security are both filed under Security awareness training and Human risk management.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Immersive's primary category is Security awareness training; Living Security's is Human risk management.
  • Immersive is also filed under AI governance.
  • Immersive lists Immersive One, Hands-On Labs, Cyber Drills, Cyber Range Exercises, Resilience Pathways and 2 more. Living Security lists Livvy, Phishing simulation, Human Risk Management Framework and Living Security SCIM.
  • Living Security is headquartered in Austin, United States.
  • Living Security was founded in 2017.

What it sells: Immersive

What Immersive One does[3][4][5][9][12]
Immersive One covers labs, simulations, AI readiness, and reporting. Access is determined by the customer’s agreed scope and deployment model.
What Cyber Drills does[3][7][13]
A Cyber Drill exercise is a simulated cyber attack that tests an organization's ability to detect, respond to, and recover from threats. Cyber Drills extend to business functions such as legal and comms.
What AI Knowledge Pass does[2][10]
AI Knowledge Pass connects access to proven competency rather than a one-time policy acknowledgment. It supports governance and compliance reporting as AI adoption scales.
What Resilience Score does[3][6]
Immersive's Resilience Score combines nine measured factors into a single value benchmarked against industry peers. The score is powered by up-to-date performance data from across the Immersive One platform.

What it sells: Living Security

What Livvy does[5][10]
Livvy recommends an action for each person, a playbook runs the action, and every result flows back into the Human Risk Index. Livvy can recommend step-up MFA and a credential reset for a person, then a 90-second coaching nudge, and waits for the team's approval. Approvals stay with the customer's team.
What Phishing simulation does[5][7]
Who is being targeted by real attacks, what assets those users can access and how they have behaved in the past go into shaping each test before it goes out. Living Security is launching support for phishing simulations via email and Teams. SMS, voice, and video simulations are on the Living Security near-term roadmap.
What Human Risk Management Framework does[5]
The Living Security map of how risk builds comes from the Human Risk Management Framework, which has 137 signals and is open to everyone under CC BY 4.0. In the map, signals from nine risk domains join into cohorts, cohorts feed sequences, and each sequence heads for a breach scenario.
What Living Security SCIM does[8]
Living Security SCIM follows the SCIM 2.0 standard (RFC 7643 and RFC 7644). SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and IdentityIQ manage Living Security accounts through the SailPoint SCIM 2.0 connector. The schema includes the core user, the Enterprise extension and the Living Security extension.

Questions about Immersive and Living Security

What do Immersive and Living Security sell?
Immersive sells Immersive One, Hands-On Labs, Cyber Drills, Cyber Range Exercises, Resilience Pathways and 2 more. Living Security sells Livvy, Phishing simulation, Human Risk Management Framework and Living Security SCIM.
Are Immersive and Living Security in the same category?
They share Security awareness training and Human risk management. Immersive's primary category is Security awareness training and Living Security's is Human risk management.
Where are Immersive and Living Security headquartered?
Living Security is headquartered in Austin, United States.
When were Immersive and Living Security founded?
Living Security was founded in 2017.
Who are Immersive and Living Security sold to?
Financial services organizations are addressed directly, with a focus on proving cyber readiness to Boards, C-level executives, and regulators. From its own pages, Living Security sells to organisations that already run security tools, from which it reads signals to reveal human and agent risk.
What have Immersive and Living Security announced recently?
March 24, 2026: Living Security announced general availability of its AI-native human risk management platform, which extends risk management to both human employees and AI agents.

About Immersive

Immersive sells Immersive One, which tests how people, AI-enabled workflows, security teams, and agents perform under pressure. Immersive One turns AI-era cyber readiness into evidence. Immersive One shows where risk is changing and where capability must improve. The Immersive One Platform provides realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities across the entire workforce. Immersive One Cyber Drills recreate real incidents across people, process, and technology. Immersive unifies labs, ranges, simulations, agent harnesses and reporting in a loop that runs continuously: Prove, Improve, Benchmark, Report. Access to Immersive One capabilities is determined by the customer’s agreed scope and deployment model.[3][4][5]

Immersive supports creating, tailoring and routing practical learning experiences that build cyber and AI readiness. Immersive provides realistic scenarios for rehearsing technical, operational, workforce, supply-chain, and crisis response. Immersive validates safe AI adoption, AI-assisted development, AI red-team activity, and agent behavior before production use. Immersive turns activity, assessment, pathway, and exercise evidence into readiness insight for teams. Immersive uses live-fire environments to test people, workflows and agents against real adversary behavior. Every run is scored against the customer's peers, the customer's history, and a baseline of humans versus agents. Immersive generates evidence from the same system that ran the test.[5][7]

A hands-on cybersecurity lab from Immersive is a browser-based environment where an individual completes a real security task against live systems and tooling. Immersive supports self-paced journeys for SOC, AppSec, CloudSec, AI, OT, OffSec, and wider workforce roles. The Immersive threat research team publishes hands-on content in response to emerging vulnerabilities and active campaigns. Immersive lets customers build and customize practical labs around proprietary code, emerging threats, and organization-specific security requirements. Immersive trains technical and non-technical teams to identify AI-specific risks and practice secure use and secure build workflows. Immersive lets customers test configurable AI analyst archetypes against realistic SIEM data and security workflows before allowing them to operate in production environments.[6][7]

A cyber range is a virtual environment designed to simulate real-world cyber threats, allowing individuals and teams to practice cybersecurity skills, test defenses, and improve incident response. A Cyber Drill exercise is a simulated cyber attack that tests an organization's ability to detect, respond to, and recover from threats. Cyber Range Exercises and Dynamic Threat Range are typically run with technical and SOC teams, and Cyber Drills extend to business functions such as legal and comms. Offensive AI Ranges and Developer AI Ranges benchmark model performance against attack scenarios and MITRE ATT&CK/ATLAS coverage, and validate whether AI-assisted development introduces security risk.[7]

Immersive exercises people through scenarios in which they interact with AI threat actors and dynamic social, chat, and video feeds. Immersive builds realistic crisis simulations around an organization using its systems, playbooks, risks, and threats. Business risk exercising is the practice of measuring and reducing the risk an organization's people introduce. Immersive uses practical exercising and capability validation to help expose supply chain risk.[8]

Immersive offers a Resilience Score that quantifies an organization's ability to detect, respond to, and recover from cyber threats. Immersive's Resilience Score combines nine measured factors into a single value benchmarked against industry peers. Immersive measures workforce capability against the NIST NICE framework. Immersive maps defensive capabilities against real-world adversary tactics across the MITRE ATT&CK framework.[3][6][9]

A Resilience Pathway from Immersive is a structured, role-based development journey that maps an individual's or team's current capability to the skills a role requires. Custom Goals let customers define organization-specific capability targets. AI Knowledge Pass validates a person's AI-related knowledge before they're granted access to AI tools.[10]

Immersive AppSec brings together practical labs and dynamic range exercises that embed security into developer workflows. Developers use labs and interactive range exercises to demonstrate practical skills in identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities. Immersive hands-on cyber labs simulate threats across offensive, defensive, and application security domains. Immersive offers content that helps workforces prepare for Operational Technology (OT)-related attacks. Immersive One includes Red and Blue Team labs, secure coding, cloud security, and more. Immersive delivers its hands-on cybersecurity training, team exercises, and cyber drills in a single Enterprise platform.[2][4][5][6][7][9][10][11][12][13]

Immersive on the record

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Immersive full record

  1. [1]immersivelabs.comImmersive · immersivelabs.com · undated page, accessed November 8, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Immersive one launches ai knowledge pass to close ai governance gap with industry first access control capabilityImmersive · immersivelabs.com · published July 1, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Prove Cyber Resilience with Drills & Labs | ImmersiveImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Cybersecurity for Manufacturing - ImmersiveImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Cybersecurity Training Platform for Teams & AI | ImmersiveImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Hands-On Cybersecurity Training & Labs - ImmersiveImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Cyber Range & Cybersecurity Exercises for AI ReadinessImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Cybersecurity Digital Tabletop Exercises for AI ReadinessImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Cyber Resilience Metrics & Benchmarking - ImmersiveImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Resilience Pathways: Cybersecurity Learning Paths - ImmersiveImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Secure SDLC Training - ImmersiveImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Financial Services Cybersecurity - ImmersiveImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Why Immersive - ImmersiveImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Immersive Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & FeaturesG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

Living Security full record

  1. [1]About usLiving Security · livingsecurity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]ContactLiving Security · livingsecurity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]PlatformLiving Security · livingsecurity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Living security strengthens cybersecurity human risk platform with phishing simulation moderator free training and foreign translation support 301277650Living Security via PR Newswire · prnewswire.com · published April 27, 2021 · Tier A
  5. [5]Living Security | AI-native Human Risk ManagementLiving Security · undated page, accessed October 26, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Microsoft Entra ID integration setup - Living Security PlatformLiving Security · undated page, accessed October 26, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]HRMCon 2026: Human Risk Management Conference | Living SecurityLiving Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Set up SCIM with SailPoint - Living Security PlatformLiving Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Living Security Launches AI-Native Human Risk Management PlatformLiving Security · published March 24, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Living Security Launches Livvy, AI-Native Predictive HRM IntelligenceLiving Security · published January 14, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Living Security Welcomes Edna Conway as Executive AdvisorLiving Security · published March 12, 2026 · Tier A

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