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BreachRx vs Immersive Labs: which crisis simulation platform fits your team?

THE SHORT ANSWER

On our published weights Immersive Labs scores 7.30 and BreachRx 6.75. BreachRx scores higher on no criterion; Immersive Labs scores higher on scenario realism, measurement and after-action reporting and regulatory evidence; they tie on executive and board focus, exercise delivery effort, customisation and pricing clarity.

By The Exercise Desk · Crisis Simulation Ranked · Published 2026-10-11

Desk research from public vendor pages, vendor announcements and standards documents read between 27 September and 13 October 2026. Editorial assessment; we did not run any exercise on these platforms.

How do BreachRx and Immersive Labs score on each criterion?

BreachRx and Immersive Labs: crisis readiness score (editorial assessment, 0 to 10)
Criterion	Weight	BreachRx	Immersive Labs	Higher score
Scenario realism	20%	Rex AI's Exercise Agent builds organisation-specific scenarios around emerging threats, incident types, business units and dependencies, and live orchestration delivers scenario developments during the exercise; a scenario that branches on each decision is not described. Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026	Dynamic injects and AI actors that players can question, built around the customer's playbooks. Source: Immersive Labs: Crisis Sim · Read 27 Sep 2026	Immersive Labs
Executive and board focus	20%	Enterprise-wide exercises bring security, legal, privacy, IT, communications, risk, business leaders, executives and outside partners together, and reports include executive summaries; board dashboards are not described. Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026	Crisis Sim targets executives, incident leaders and cross-functional teams, and digital tabletops include the board. Source: Immersive Labs: digital tabletop exercises · Read 27 Sep 2026	Tie
Exercise delivery effort	15%	The Exercise Agent generates moderator guides, timelines, injects, decision points and participant materials, and the vendor names a monthly or biweekly cadence; a human moderator still runs the session. Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026	The AI Program Builder drafts scenarios, but the crisis simulation sits in a multi-product platform that needs programme ownership. Source: Immersive Labs: digital tabletop exercises · Read 27 Sep 2026	Tie
Measurement and after-action reporting	15%	After-action reports, executive summaries, gap analyses and prioritised improvements; gaps and observations are captured automatically and fed back into response workflows for a retest. Benchmarking across teams is not described. Source: BreachRx: Rex agentic AI · Read 13 Oct 2026	Decision-level measurement, a Resilience Score, benchmarks across teams and enhanced after-action reporting (March 2026). Source: Immersive Labs press release: Immersive One expands exercising and compliance benchmarking (17 March 2026) · Read 27 Sep 2026	Immersive Labs
Regulatory evidence	10%	Cyber RegScout brings regulatory context into the exercise, updating tasks, deadlines and disclosure milestones as the scenario changes; mapping of results to named frameworks is not described on the pages reviewed. Source: BreachRx: Rex agentic AI · Read 13 Oct 2026	"Prove regulatory alignment" with NIS2 and DORA evidence, NIST CSF heat maps and GRC content for ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and SOX. Source: Immersive Labs press release: Immersive One expands exercising and compliance benchmarking (17 March 2026) · Read 27 Sep 2026	Immersive Labs
Customisation	10%	Scenarios are generated for the organisation's business units and dependencies and test its own response playbooks inside the Rex Platform. Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026	AI scenario creation, the AI Program Builder and an AI-Powered Crisis Simulator for custom scenarios. Source: Immersive Labs press release: Secure With AI (21 January 2026) · Read 27 Sep 2026	Tie
Pricing clarity	10%	No price published; the route in is a demo. A free, facilitated exercise is offered only to qualifying healthcare providers. Source: BreachRx homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026	No price published. Source: Immersive Labs homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026	Tie
Total	100%			Immersive Labs

Which stages of an exercise does each cover?

Build: Documented
The Rex AI Exercise Agent builds organisation-specific scenarios around emerging threats, incident types, business units and dependencies.
Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026
Adapt: Partial
Live orchestration delivers scenario developments during the exercise; branching on each decision is not described.
Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026
Seats: Documented
Enterprise-wide exercises for security, legal, privacy, IT, communications, risk, business leaders, executives and outside partners, or focused micro-exercises for one team.
Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026
Run: Partial
Moderator guides, timelines and discussion prompts are generated; the free healthcare exercise is run by BreachRx facilitators.
Source: BreachRx blog: free tabletop exercise for healthcare providers (6 October 2026) · Read 13 Oct 2026
Report: Documented
After-action reports, executive summaries, gap analyses and prioritised improvements; gaps and observations are captured automatically.
Source: BreachRx: Rex agentic AI · Read 13 Oct 2026
Map: Partial
Cyber RegScout adds regulatory deadlines and disclosure milestones to the exercise; framework mapping of results is not described.
Source: BreachRx: Rex agentic AI · Read 13 Oct 2026

A solid segment means the vendor's own pages describe that stage. It shows coverage, not quality; the scores judge quality.

Build: Documented
AI scenario creation and an AI Program Builder; scenarios built around the customer's playbooks.
Source: Immersive Labs: digital tabletop exercises · Read 27 Sep 2026
Adapt: Documented
Dynamic injects and AI actors that players can question.
Source: Immersive Labs: Crisis Sim · Read 27 Sep 2026
Seats: Documented
For executives, incident leaders and cross-functional teams; digital tabletop audiences include the board.
Source: Immersive Labs: digital tabletop exercises · Read 27 Sep 2026
Run: Not described
Who facilitates a session is not described on the pages reviewed.
Source: Immersive Labs: Crisis Sim · Read 27 Sep 2026
Report: Documented
Decision-level measurement, a Resilience Score and benchmarks; enhanced Crisis Simulation after-action reporting announced in March 2026.
Source: Immersive Labs press release: Immersive One expands exercising and compliance benchmarking (17 March 2026) · Read 27 Sep 2026
Map: Documented
"Prove regulatory alignment"; evidence for NIS2 and DORA; heat maps for NIST CSF and GRC content for ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and SOX.
Source: Immersive Labs press release: Immersive One expands exercising and compliance benchmarking (17 March 2026) · Read 27 Sep 2026

A solid segment means the vendor's own pages describe that stage. It shows coverage, not quality; the scores judge quality.

BreachRx documents 3 of 6 stages and Immersive Labs documents 5 of 6.

What do they cost?

BreachRx

Packaging: One module of the Rex Platform, alongside incident response management, Rex AI, out-of-band communications and Cyber RegScout; access through a demo.

Not published BreachRx publishes no prices and has no pricing page in its navigation; the route in is a demo. A free, facilitated exercise is offered to qualifying hospitals and healthcare providers (October 2026).

Source: BreachRx homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026

Immersive Labs

Packaging: Part of the Immersive One platform alongside labs, drills and ranges; pricing through sales.

Not published Immersive Labs publishes no prices.

Source: Immersive Labs homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026

Which frameworks do they map results to?

BreachRx

None named on the pages reviewed

Immersive Labs

NIS2
DORA
NIST CSF
ISO 27001
ISO 42001
SOX

Source: Immersive Labs press release: Immersive One expands exercising and compliance benchmarking (17 March 2026) · Read 27 Sep 2026

Which should you choose?

Choose BreachRx if

Executive and board focus: 8 / 10, Enterprise-wide exercises bring security, legal, privacy, IT, communications, risk, business leaders, executives and outside partners together, and reports include executive summaries; board dashboards are not described.
Measurement and after-action reporting: 8 / 10, After-action reports, executive summaries, gap analyses and prioritised improvements; gaps and observations are captured automatically and fed back into response workflows for a retest. Benchmarking across teams is not described.
Exercises inside an incident response platform

Choose Immersive Labs if

Measurement and after-action reporting: 9 / 10, Decision-level measurement, a Resilience Score, benchmarks across teams and enhanced after-action reporting (March 2026).
Scenario realism: 8 / 10, Dynamic injects and AI actors that players can question, built around the customer's playbooks.
Crisis simulation inside a wider readiness platform

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Frequently asked questions

Is BreachRx or Immersive Labs better for executive crisis exercises?

They tie on executive and board focus at 8 out of 10. Read each profile for the detail.

Which is easier to run, BreachRx or Immersive Labs?

They tie on delivery effort, where a higher score means less effort, at 7 out of 10. Read each profile for the detail.

Do BreachRx and Immersive Labs publish prices?

Neither BreachRx nor Immersive Labs publishes a price for its exercise product.