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Immersive vs Proofpoint

Immersive sells Immersive One, which tests how people, AI-enabled workflows, security teams, and agents perform under pressure. Proofpoint sells security that covers data and AI as one system, with access that follows intent. CISO Tribune files both under 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 Proofpoint: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
ImmersiveImmersive sells Immersive One, which tests how people, AI-enabled workflows, security teams, and agents perform under pressure.immersivelabs.comProofpointProofpoint sells security that covers data and AI as one system, with access that follows intent.proofpoint.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.
  • ITM / Endpoint DLP[19]Endpoint software whose main features are supported on Windows, Mac and Linux.
  • Proofpoint Threat Intelligence Services[21]A Proofpoint team that provides Threat Insights.
  • ET Intel[21]A subscription that gives full access to all insights.
  • ET Pro[21]A subscription that gives full access to all insights.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesSunnyvale, United States[1]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2002[1]
Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesOwned by Thoma Bravo since 2021[3][12][14][15]
Named customers
Not stated on its pages
  • Xcel Energy[4]
  • Princeton University[5]
  • Columbia University[6]
  • Informatica[7]
  • California Department of Motor Vehicles[8]
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • October 15, 2026Proofpoint and Varonis announced a definitive agreement under which Proofpoint will acquire Varonis in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6.3 billion.[16]
  • September 22, 2026Proofpoint announced the Agentic Collaboration Security system, combining an intent-based detection model with agentic capabilities for email, collaboration tools and the browser.[17]
  • September 22, 2026Proofpoint announced the Proofpoint Agentic Data and AI Security system, built to secure AI and data as one connected risk.[18]
  • September 3, 2026Proofpoint introduced the SOC Analyst Agent, an AI capability that helps security teams investigate threats across Proofpoint security data, built with OpenAI models.[9]
  • August 4, 2026Proofpoint launched an OEM program that lets technology providers, security vendors and managed service providers embed its threat intelligence and detection capabilities.[10]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[14]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[14]
  • 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, Proofpoint addresses cyberattacks on organisations where people and AI agents work side by side across email, cloud and collaboration tools. The customers Proofpoint quotes include an organisation using Proofpoint for AI security for employees using AI services and tools, and for AI security in the tools and agents it is building. A quoted Proofpoint customer runs email security, DLP and insider threat management that work together, with its analyst using a single security console.
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November 8, 2026October 10, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Immersive and Proofpoint are both filed under Human risk management.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Immersive's primary category is Security awareness training; Proofpoint's is Email security.
  • Immersive is also filed under AI governance. Proofpoint is also filed under Collaboration app security and Insider risk management.
  • Immersive lists Immersive One, Hands-On Labs, Cyber Drills, Cyber Range Exercises, Resilience Pathways and 2 more. Proofpoint lists ITM / Endpoint DLP, Proofpoint Threat Intelligence Services, ET Intel and ET Pro.
  • Proofpoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, United States.
  • Proofpoint was founded in 2002.
  • Proofpoint is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2021.
  • Proofpoint publicly names Xcel Energy, Princeton University, Columbia University, Informatica and California Department of Motor Vehicles.

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: Proofpoint

What Proofpoint Threat Intelligence Services does[21]
Threat Insights are provided by the Proofpoint Threat Intelligence Services team. Premium Threat Intelligence Services analysts curate threat news highlights.
What ET Intel does[21]
Subscribing to ET Intel or ET Pro gives full access to all insights. Threat Insights are provided by the Proofpoint Threat Intelligence Services team.
What ET Pro does[21]
Subscribing to ET Intel or ET Pro gives full access to all insights. Threat Insights are provided by the Proofpoint Threat Intelligence Services team.

Questions about Immersive and Proofpoint

What do Immersive and Proofpoint sell?
Immersive sells Immersive One, Hands-On Labs, Cyber Drills, Cyber Range Exercises, Resilience Pathways and 2 more. Proofpoint sells ITM / Endpoint DLP, Proofpoint Threat Intelligence Services, ET Intel and ET Pro.
Are Immersive and Proofpoint in the same category?
They share Human risk management. Immersive's primary category is Security awareness training and Proofpoint's is Email security.
Where are Immersive and Proofpoint headquartered?
Proofpoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, United States.
When were Immersive and Proofpoint founded?
Proofpoint was founded in 2002.
Who owns Immersive and Proofpoint?
Proofpoint is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2021.
Which customers do Immersive and Proofpoint name?
Proofpoint publicly names Xcel Energy, Princeton University, Columbia University, Informatica and California Department of Motor Vehicles.
Who are Immersive and Proofpoint 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, Proofpoint addresses cyberattacks on organisations where people and AI agents work side by side across email, cloud and collaboration tools.
What have Immersive and Proofpoint announced recently?
October 15, 2026: Proofpoint and Varonis announced a definitive agreement under which Proofpoint will acquire Varonis in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6.3 billion.

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
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  13. [13]Why Immersive - ImmersiveImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
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Proofpoint full record

  1. [1]AboutProofpoint · proofpoint.com · published April 21, 2025 · Tier A
  2. [2]ProductsProofpoint · proofpoint.com · published September 24, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Thoma bravo completes acquisition of proofpointThoma Bravo · thomabravo.com · published August 31, 2021 · Tier A
  4. [4]Xcel energyProofpoint · proofpoint.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Princeton university safe with proofpoint email securityProofpoint · proofpoint.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Columbia universityProofpoint · proofpoint.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]InformaticaProofpoint · proofpoint.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]California department motor vehiclesProofpoint · proofpoint.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Proofpoint soc analyst agent openai daybreakProofpoint · proofpoint.com · published September 3, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Proofpoint launches oem program help security providers embed trusted threatProofpoint · proofpoint.com · published August 4, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Proofpoint launches dedicated msp business unit and introduces 365 totalProofpoint · proofpoint.com · published May 13, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Enterprise Cybersecurity Solutions, Services & Training | Proofpoint USProofpoint · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Integrating ITM On-Prem (ObserveIT) with a Service Desk SystemProofpoint · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Proofpoint Core Email Protection Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier C
  15. [15]Proofpoint Acquires Acuvity to Deliver AI Security and Governance Across the Agentic WorkspaceProofpoint · published February 12, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Proofpoint to Acquire Varonis in a $6.3 Billion TransactionProofpoint · published October 15, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]Proofpoint Stops the Attacks Traditional Defenses Miss in the AI EraProofpoint · published September 22, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]Proofpoint Breaks Down the Divide Between Data Security and AI Security with the Industry’s First Unified Agentic SystemProofpoint · published September 22, 2026 · Tier A
  19. [19]ITM / Endpoint DLP Windows / Mac / Linux SupportProofpoint · published November 9, 2026 · Tier A
  20. [20]Assigning SQL Permissions to the Service Account UserProofpoint · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  21. [21]Proofpoint: Emerging Threats IntelligenceProofpoint · published November 9, 2026 · Tier A

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