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Cytactic beside Immersive Labs: training types and facts side by side
Short answer
Cytactic sells tabletop and crisis simulation; Immersive Labs sells cyber range, hands-on lab libraries and tabletop and crisis simulation, and, with a condition, awareness training. They differ on 3 of 4 training types and 5 of 8 checks on the pages we read. This page sets their published facts side by side; it does not pick one.
By The Range Desk · Cyber Range Compare · Published 2026-10-11 · Updated 2026-10-13
Desk research from public vendor, standards and regulator pages read on 27 September, 11 October and 13 October 2026. Profiles follow our published method; we did not run the products.
Which training types does each sell?
- Targets: Cytactic
- Diamonds: Immersive Labs
- RANGE · Cyber range: Not in our sources; Immersive Labs: Sold
- LABS · Hands-on lab libraries: Not in our sources; Immersive Labs: Sold
- CRISIS · Tabletop and crisis simulation: Sold; Immersive Labs: Sold
- AWARE · Awareness training: Not in our sources; Immersive Labs: Sold with a condition
- Filled target: the platform sells this training type on the pages we read
- Hatched target: sold with a condition (an add-on, an adjacent product, or part of the type)
- Dashed target: not in our sources (it may exist; we did not find it)
| Type | Cytactic | Immersive Labs |
|---|---|---|
| Cyber range | Not in our sources Not described on the pages we read. | Sold Dynamic Threat Range runs live-fire attacks on the customer's own stack, with tools such as Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, Splunk and CrowdStrike. Source: Immersive Labs: cybersecurity technical exercises · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Hands-on lab libraries | Not in our sources Not described on the pages we read. | Sold Browser-based labs across AI, application security, cloud, OT and offensive security, with an AI Lab Builder. Source: Immersive Labs: labs · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Tabletop and crisis simulation | Sold "Risk-tuned, Realistic Crisis Simulation (Digital TTX)", with a Simulation Generator: five ready-made simulations plus an AI engine that builds new ones. Source: Cytactic blog: the next generation of cyber tabletops · Read 13 Oct 2026 | Sold Crisis Sim for executives, incident leaders and cross-functional teams, with dynamic injects, AI actors and AI scenario creation. Source: Immersive Labs: Crisis Sim · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Awareness training | Not in our sources Not described on the pages we read. | Sold with a condition Lab audiences include non-technical employees; phishing simulation is not described on the pages we read. Source: Immersive Labs: labs · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
Where do their published facts differ?
Cyber range: Cytactic Not in our sources, Immersive Labs Sold
Cytactic: Not described on the pages we read.
Immersive: Dynamic Threat Range runs live-fire attacks on the customer's own stack, with tools such as Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, Splunk and CrowdStrike.
Hands-on lab libraries: Cytactic Not in our sources, Immersive Labs Sold
Cytactic: Not described on the pages we read.
Immersive: Browser-based labs across AI, application security, cloud, OT and offensive security, with an AI Lab Builder.
Awareness training: Cytactic Not in our sources, Immersive Labs Sold with a condition
Cytactic: Not described on the pages we read.
Immersive: Lab audiences include non-technical employees; phishing simulation is not described on the pages we read.
Hands-on keyboard work: Cytactic Not in our sources, Immersive Labs Matches
Cytactic: Not in our sources.
Immersive: Browser labs against live systems, and a live-fire range.
Executives and non-technical roles take part: Cytactic Partly, Immersive Labs Matches
Cytactic: Generated exercises include stakeholder discussions, with crisis communication and legal disclosure agents in the platform; an exercise format for executives or the board is not described.
Immersive: Crisis Sim targets executives, incident leaders and cross-functional teams; digital tabletops list audiences including the board.
Built around your own environment or tools: Cytactic Partly, Immersive Labs Matches
Cytactic: Scenarios are built from the organisation's profile and data.
Immersive: Dynamic Threat Range: a live-fire attack on your own stack.
Sessions of an hour or less: Cytactic Not in our sources, Immersive Labs Partly
Cytactic: Not in our sources.
Immersive: The AI Program Builder drafts tabletop exercises; session length is not stated on the pages we read.
Reaches the whole workforce: Cytactic Not in our sources, Immersive Labs Partly
Cytactic: Not in our sources.
Immersive: Lab audiences include non-technical employees.
Where do they match?
- Sold Tabletop and crisis simulation
- Matches Reports or evidence for auditors, boards or regulators
Neither platform's pages describe: Price published, Free start (free tier, trial or free material).
What do they cost?
How do their strengths and limits compare?
Strengths
- A ready library of five crisis simulations plus a generator that drafts new ones from the organisation's profile.
- Simulation artefacts such as ransom notes, breaking news and system data appear automatically.
- Sits next to playbooks, crisis communication and legal disclosure tools.
Limits
- Not a lab platform or a cyber range: no hands-on technical environment is described.
- No published price, and board formats and measurement are not described on the pages we read.
Strengths
- The broadest set here: labs, cyber drills, a live-fire range and crisis simulation in one platform.
- Dynamic Threat Range runs live-fire attacks on the customer's own stack, with tools such as Sentinel, Elastic, Splunk and CrowdStrike.
- Evidence for boards and regulators: a Resilience Score, benchmarks and references to frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA.
Limits
- No published pricing and no free tier on the pages we read.
- Breadth needs program ownership: someone has to decide which of labs, drills, range and crisis simulation each team gets.
Which one fits which team?
Look at Cytactic if you want tabletop practice next to your playbooks and disclosure tools, or if you want ready-made crisis scenarios to start from. Look at Immersive if you want one platform for analysts, responders and executives, or if you need live-fire exercises on the tools you already run.
Not sure which training type you need first? The training type finder weighs your answers before it lists platforms.
Questions people ask
Is Cytactic or Immersive Labs cheaper?
Neither publishes a price on the pages we read. Ask both for a quote for the same scope.
Do Cytactic and Immersive Labs sell the same kind of training?
They both sell tabletop and crisis simulation. Immersive Labs also sells cyber range, hands-on lab libraries and awareness training.
Can I compare several platforms at once?
Yes. The platform fact grid puts up to twelve side by side, and you can pick which ones.
Read next
- Cytactic profile
A cyber incident response management hub with a simulation generator: five ready-made crisis simulations and an AI engine that builds new ones from the organisation's profile, run in a Simulation Mode inside the platform.
- Immersive Labs profile
One platform, Immersive One, with hands-on labs, cyber drills, a live-fire range on the customer's own tools, and crisis simulations.
- Tabletop and crisis simulation
The people who own decisions in an incident work through a scenario and decide what to do, from a scripted discussion to an adaptive simulation.
- Cyber range
A team detects and responds to a live simulated attack in a realistic environment, using real security tools.
- Platform fact grid
Every platform's facts in one table.