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Immersive vs Onyx Security

Immersive sells Immersive One, which tests how people, AI-enabled workflows, security teams, and agents perform under pressure. Onyx Security sells a secure control plane for AI agents and models. CISO Tribune files both under AI governance. 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 Onyx 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.comOnyx SecurityOnyx Security sells a secure control plane for AI agents and models.onyx.security
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.
  • AI Security[1][7]Onyx provides the runtime and posture layer of the Onyx Secure AI Control Plane.
  • MCP Gateway[8]The MCP Gateway governs the agent-to-tool surface.
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Recent news
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  • July 29, 2026Onyx Security announced a $113 million Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.[15]
  • March 12, 2026Onyx Security officially launched operations after securing $40 million in initial funding.[14]
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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, Onyx Security sells mainly to security, governance, and AI teams that need control over AI agent adoption across the enterprise. Onyx Security describes a single platform for security, governance, and infrastructure teams. Onyx Security offers cloud, hybrid, or self-hosted options for organisations with sensitive data residency requirements. Onyx Security presents one console for AI agents and models across SaaS, cloud, endpoint, and code environments. Onyx Security names security, finance, and platform teams as the teams that share its usage, cost, and policy ledger.
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Where they overlap

  • Immersive and Onyx Security are both filed under AI governance.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Immersive's primary category is Security awareness training; Onyx Security's is AI model and agent security.
  • Immersive is also filed under Human risk management. Onyx Security is also filed under Workforce AI usage security and Non-human identity security.
  • Immersive lists Immersive One, Hands-On Labs, Cyber Drills, Cyber Range Exercises, Resilience Pathways and 2 more. Onyx Security lists AI Security and MCP Gateway.

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: Onyx Security

What AI Security does[1][7]
Onyx provides the runtime and posture layer of the Onyx Secure AI Control Plane. Onyx inspects every prompt, tool call, and model response inline across browser AI, coding assistants, desktop AI agents, cloud workloads, and MCP servers. Onyx offers five enforcement actions: alert, block, mask, steer, or ask.
What MCP Gateway does[8]
The MCP Gateway governs the agent-to-tool surface. Every tool call an agent makes to an MCP server gets inspected and policy-enforced. MCP Gateway coverage spans the MCP ecosystem, including servers using dynamic client registration and popular servers like GitHub.

Questions about Immersive and Onyx Security

What do Immersive and Onyx Security sell?
Immersive sells Immersive One, Hands-On Labs, Cyber Drills, Cyber Range Exercises, Resilience Pathways and 2 more. Onyx Security sells AI Security and MCP Gateway.
Are Immersive and Onyx Security in the same category?
They share AI governance. Immersive's primary category is Security awareness training and Onyx Security's is AI model and agent security.
Who are Immersive and Onyx 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, Onyx Security sells mainly to security, governance, and AI teams that need control over AI agent adoption across the enterprise.
What have Immersive and Onyx Security announced recently?
July 29, 2026: Onyx Security announced a $113 million Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

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

Onyx Security full record

  1. [1]onyx.securityOnyx Security · onyx.security · undated page, accessed October 19, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]The Secure AI Control Plane for the Agentic Era | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]About Onyx | The Team Behind the AI Control PlaneOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]One Platform to Discover and Control Every AI Agent | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]AI Observability – Discover Every Agent & Session | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI Agent Security | Block Prompt Injection in Real TimeOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]AI Governance Platform Built for the EU AI Act | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]AI Orchestration – Governed Routing & Control | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]AI ROI Platform – Prove Value & Control Costs | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Secure Claude Enterprise with Onyx | Anthropic IntegrationOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Secure ChatGPT Enterprise with Onyx | OpenAI IntegrationOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Secure Amazon Bedrock Agents | Onyx IntegrationOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Copilot Studio Security – Discover, Govern & Control | OnyxOnyx Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Israeli cyber firm Onyx Security launches operations with $40 million funding round | ReutersReuters · published March 12, 2026 · Tier B
  15. [15]Onyx Security Raises $113M Series B to Control Advanced AI, Quadrupling Revenue since Stealth Launch Four Months AgoBusiness Wire · published July 29, 2026 · Tier A

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