Immersive Labs acquires Snap Labs for cyber simulations

Immersive Labs, the UK company enabling organisations to continuously measure and optimise the human cyber capabilities of their entire workforce, has announced the acquisition of Snap Labs, a US cyber security startup. 

The transaction brings ‘a new level of realism’ to organisations looking to develop cyber knowledge, skills and judgement, providing them with the ability to build multi-player simulations customised for specific environments and roles.

James Hadley, CEO of Immersive Labs, said, “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.

“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.”    

Building cyber skills across the entire workforce 

The newly integrated platform will allow customers to run labs and cyber crisis exercises in a cloud-based replica of their own organisation featuring specific vendors. This also provides the ability for technical teams to work cooperatively in an expansive virtual environment as part of wider exercises involving executive decision-makers.

Incorporated into the wider Immersive Labs platform this will further enable organisations to create a continuous cycle of human cyber capability improvement. With regular exercising, and evidencing against internal and anonymized peer benchmark data – the cyber knowledge, skills and judgement of the entire workforce can keep pace with risk – allowing them to be used strategically, for the first time.    

Pennsylvania-based Snap Labs was founded in 2016 by Co-Founders Chris Myers and Barrett Adams. 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.