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Immersive Labs and Goldman Sachs have announced a new programme that will help improve the cyber skills of employees working in the banking sector. Goldman Sachs will use Immersive Labs browser-based learning platform which will provide employees with virtual lab environments to help them develop better digital countermeasures to a potential breach. The company is currently intending to subsequently deploy a pool of virtual machines for 8000+ developers.

Immersive Labs is currently located in the UK. The programme will help identify and develop rising talent using a cloud-based cyber training assessment platform.

“There is a critical shortage of cyber professionals across the globe which makes it difficult for organisations to find talented individuals and puts added pressures on existing cyber professionals to keep their skills sharp. Immersive Labs provides an innovative solution for training and identifying new cyber professionals and honing the skills of existing ones,” said Andy Ozment, Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Tech Risk at Goldman Sachs.

The current approach of Immersive labs is to provide its users with an aesthetic platform that will help solve the skill shortage problem in a dynamic way without using outdated classroom learning technologies.

“The best of the best cyber talent likes to learn; however, they don’t like to be taught,” explained James Hadley, CEO and founder of Immersive Labs. “The cyber skills shortage is one of the largest problems facing the technology sector today, and as a result attackers are winning. We realised that if we wanted to fix this at scale, it was not something that could be done in a classroom as it just doesn’t appeal to the people we are trying to reach. It needs to be fun, engaging and ongoing, so we took a disruptive approach to the market.”

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