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Immersive vs Reco

Immersive sells Immersive One, which tests how people, AI-enabled workflows, security teams, and agents perform under pressure. Reco sells the Reco Platform, which gives security teams visibility into their entire third-party ecosystem so they can discover risks, prioritize what matters, and fix it. 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 Reco: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
ImmersiveImmersive sells Immersive One, which tests how people, AI-enabled workflows, security teams, and agents perform under pressure.immersivelabs.comRecoReco sells the Reco Platform, which gives security teams visibility into their entire third-party ecosystem so they can discover risks, prioritize what matters, and fix it.reco.ai
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.
  • Reco Platform[1][5]A connected platform that combines agent runtime, agent security and agent governance with shared app and identity context.
  • Agent Runtime[1]Monitors agent activity and responds to threats as prompts and actions occur.
  • Agent Security[1]Discovers, assigns ownership to, and secures connected AI agents.
  • Agent Governance[1]Provides a view of an organization's agent ecosystem and lets teams govern it.
  • Application Discovery[9]Discovers applications in use and maps their connections.
  • Identity & Access GovernanceControls which identities can access which applications and data.
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Headquarters
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Ownership and funding
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Named customers
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Recent news
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  • September 29, 2026Reco said it raised $55 million, building on the $30 million Series B it announced in February.[16]
  • July 29, 2026Reco announced an expansion of AI Runtime in its platform, adding browser-based enforcement, real-time prompt analysis and blocking, and automated remediation.[3]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
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  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[4]
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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, Reco describes the Reco Platform as giving security teams visibility into their entire third-party ecosystem. Reco describes its security as built for the enterprise. On deployment, Reco supports enforcement through app-native hooks and endpoint controls, using either a customer's own gateway or the gateway from Reco.
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November 8, 2026October 7, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Immersive and Reco are both filed under AI governance.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Immersive's primary category is Security awareness training; Reco's is AI model and agent security.
  • Immersive is also filed under Human risk management. Reco is also filed under SaaS security posture and Non-human identity security.
  • Immersive lists Immersive One, Hands-On Labs, Cyber Drills, Cyber Range Exercises, Resilience Pathways and 2 more. Reco lists Reco Platform, Agent Runtime, Agent Security, Agent Governance, Application Discovery and 1 more.
  • Reco is privately held.

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.

Questions about Immersive and Reco

What do Immersive and Reco sell?
Immersive sells Immersive One, Hands-On Labs, Cyber Drills, Cyber Range Exercises, Resilience Pathways and 2 more. Reco sells Reco Platform, Agent Runtime, Agent Security, Agent Governance, Application Discovery and 1 more.
Are Immersive and Reco in the same category?
They share AI governance. Immersive's primary category is Security awareness training and Reco's is AI model and agent security.
Who owns Immersive and Reco?
Reco is privately held.
Who are Immersive and Reco 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, Reco describes the Reco Platform as giving security teams visibility into their entire third-party ecosystem.
What have Immersive and Reco announced recently?
September 29, 2026: Reco said it raised $55 million, building on the $30 million Series B it announced in February.

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

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  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
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  11. [11]Secure SDLC Training - ImmersiveImmersive · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
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Reco full record

  1. [1]reco.aiReco · reco.ai · undated page, accessed October 7, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]NewsroomReco · reco.ai · undated page, accessed October 7, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Reco enhances AI Runtime with browser-based AI security and automated remediationHelp Net Security · published July 29, 2026 · Tier B
  4. [4]Reco Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier C
  5. [5]Reco Platform: Secure Every App, Identity, and AI AgentReco · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI Agent Security Platform | RecoReco · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]AI Agent Security: Discover & Control Every AI AgentReco · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Reco AI Agent Runtime: Control Every Agent ActionReco · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]AI-Powered Identity Access Governance | Secure SaaS at ScaleReco · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]SaaS Security Posture Management – Continuous SSPM+ CoverageReco · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Continuous SaaS Compliance Monitoring & Coverage | RecoReco · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]AI Governance & Security for SaaS ComplianceReco · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Generative AI Discovery for Shadow Tools, Agents & Data RisksReco · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]SaaS App Factory™: Secure AI Agents & SaaS AppsReco · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]SaaS Security Automation with AI AgentsReco · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market | TechCrunchTechCrunch · published September 29, 2026 · Tier B

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