News · Updated September 2026
Cyber exercise and security training news, 2026
Summaries of public announcements, with links to the original source. Updated monthly.
Fourteen announcements from January to September 2026 by vendors we score or review, plus one industry report. Immersive Labs announced the most product changes; Hack The Box, Cyberbit and iluminr announced launches, research, accreditation and analyst recognition. Vendor claims are reported as the vendor states them.
Editorial assessment · Assessed from vendor sites, product pages and published pricing, September 2026
- 2026-09-24iluminr
iluminr named a Chartis RiskTech100 2027 Disruptor
Chartis Research listed iluminr as a RiskTech100 2027 Disruptor in risk intelligence and data management. iluminr says more than 900 firms were evaluated.
- 2026-09-21Hack The Box
Hack The Box launches HTB PRO, one plan for individual training
HTB PRO bundles VIP+ access, 10 Pro Labs and SOC Range access from Q4 2026, at $49 a month or $490 a year. Legacy Pro Labs bundles close to new buyers on 30 September 2026.
- 2026-09-17Cyberbit
Cyberbit is technology partner for the second She Protects cohort
The UAE program delivered by Microsoft and CPX expands to more than 150 university students and recent graduates from November 2026 to May 2027, with hands-on labs on the Cyberbit Readiness platform.
- 2026-08-26Hack The Box
Hack The Box finds AI agents in use by 68% of its top 25 benchmark teams
Its 2026 Global Cyber Skills Benchmark Research Brief also reports that median solve time fell from 26.1 hours in 2024 to 13.8 hours in 2026.
- 2026-08-18iluminr
iluminr adds an AI context engine and behavioural evidence to its platform
The update draws on continuity and GRC data to guide players during scenarios, measures decision speed, confidence and team alignment, and automates regulatory reporting. iluminr says it rolled out to all clients.
- 2026-08-11KnowBe4
KnowBe4 publishes a free Cybersecurity Awareness Month kit with four tabletop documents
The free kit for October includes posters and signage in several languages, training videos and modules, planning resources and four tabletop exercise documents based on real-life scenarios.
- 2026-07-29iluminr
iluminr microsimulations listed in a Gartner Hype Cycle for a third year
iluminr says its microsimulations appear in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Risk, Compliance and Audit Technologies, 2026, the third consecutive year of inclusion.
- 2026-07-21Cyberbit
Four RangeForce certificate programs gain ANAB accreditation
The ANSI National Accreditation Board accredited four RangeForce certificate programs, now part of Cyberbit Readiness, under ANSI/ASTM E2659. Each program ends with a hands-on capstone assessment.
- 2026-03-23Field
M-Trends 2026: global median dwell time rises to 14 days
Mandiant's annual report puts the 2025 global median dwell time at 14 days, up from 11, and finds 52% of intrusions were first detected internally. Exploits stayed the most common initial infection vector at 32%.
- 2026-03-17Immersive Labs
Immersive One adds exercising inside customer security tools
Immersive announced exercising within CrowdStrike Falcon, Google Security Operations, Splunk, IBM QRadar and Microsoft Sentinel, framework heat maps including NIST CSF and MITRE ATT&CK, and enhanced after-action reporting for Crisis Simulation.
- 2026-03-11Immersive Labs
Immersive announces a Leader placement in the Forrester Wave for skills and training platforms
Immersive says it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Cybersecurity Skills and Training Platforms, Q1 2026. Hack The Box also lists a Leader placement in the same report on its business page.
- 2026-03-06Hack The Box
Hack The Box benchmark compares AI-augmented and human-only teams
The report found teams using AI solved 27% of challenges against 16% for the top human-only teams, and cautioned that the mid-tier tasks where AI helps most are where analysts build judgement.
- 2026-01-27Immersive Labs
Immersive adds live CrowdStrike Falcon simulations
Immersive One now provides provisioned CrowdStrike Falcon environments for practice on Falcon Insight XDR and Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, including an APT41 intrusion scenario.
- 2026-01-21Immersive Labs
Immersive adds AI lab building and an AI crisis simulator
The Secure With AI release adds AI Lab Builder 2.0, an in-lab AI assistant and an AI-powered crisis simulator that builds custom scenarios, with a setting to opt out of AI features.
A themed recap of these announcements: news recap, January to September 2026.
No dated announcements from Reflex Security, TryHackMe or Conducttr appeared on their public pages for January to September 2026 when this page was compiled. Corrections with a public source: editors@securitytraining.co.