Security Training

Reviews

Cybersecurity training and exercise platform reviews

Field note

Eight reviews: seven scored platforms and KnowBe4, which is listed but not scored because awareness training is a different category. Immersive Labs has the highest readiness score (7.5 of 10); Reflex Security is second (6.8).

Editorial assessment · Assessed from vendor sites, product pages and published pricing, September 2026

Immersive Labs

Top pick for one platform across every audience
Readiness7.5 / 10

The broadest platform here: hands-on labs, a live-fire range on your own tools, cyber drills and crisis simulations under one product, Immersive One.

Tabletop and crisis simulation · Live-fire range · Hands-on labs

Not published

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Reflex Security

Top pick for replacing the annual tabletop
Readiness6.8 / 10

AI crisis simulation that replaces the scripted tabletop: an adaptive adversary, pressured stakeholders and an after-action report at the end.

Tabletop and crisis simulation

Not published

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Hack The Box

Best for technical teams that also need a tabletop
Readiness6.7 / 10

Technical training platform with a large learner community, plus Crisis Control, a platform-led tabletop with optional hands-on investigation.

Tabletop and crisis simulation · Hands-on labs

Professional plan $2,500 per seat per year ($250 per seat per month); other plans not published

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iluminr

Top pick for board and regulator evidence
Readiness6.7 / 10

Operational resilience exercising for boards, executives and crisis teams, from 3–5 minute microsimulations to facilitated tabletops, with evidence mapped to regulations.

Tabletop and crisis simulation

Not published

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Cyberbit

Best live-fire range with an executive add-on
Readiness6.7 / 10

Cloud cyber range for SOC and IR teams, now combined with RangeForce, with Crisis Sim 360 as an add-on that pulls executives into the same incident.

Tabletop and crisis simulation · Live-fire range · Hands-on labs

Not published

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TryHackMe

Best free starting point for SOC skills
Readiness6.5 / 10

Browser-based labs with a free tier and 8M+ users, plus AI-generated tabletop exercises and SOC simulators for business teams.

Tabletop and crisis simulation · Hands-on labs

Individual plans published; business pricing through sales

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Conducttr

Best for teams that design their own exercises
Readiness6.1 / 10

Build-and-run crisis exercise platform that simulates news, social media and messaging around the players; the only vendor here with a full public price list.

Tabletop and crisis simulation

£11,950 to £25,725 per year (four team licences, up to 40 participants per session)

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KnowBe4

Listed, not scored: awareness training

Not scored

Security awareness training and simulated phishing for the whole workforce. A different category: it trains employees, not the incident response team.

Awareness training

Not published on the pages we reviewed

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6-1How to read these reviews

Each review says what the product does, who it trains, what an exercise leaves behind, and what it costs where a price is published. Facts come from the vendor's own pages, linked at the foot of each review, read in September 2026. Scores are editorial assessments against the criteria on How we assess.