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Forge Proof Room

Solutions engineers demo their own product in a simulated world wearing the prospect's names.

What is in it

For vp sales, head of solutions engineering, product marketing — let a buyer drive the product on the call, on an estate they recognize, and close it there.

  • Pre-provisioned demo kits for platforms, endpoint agents, appliances, plant equipment and executive value stories
  • Three depths of mirror, their choice: names they dictate, a sample they drop in that is read in their own browser, or a scoped read-only look they approve and can revoke in one click
  • A join code the prospect opens in a browser — no account, no install, no scheduling a lab
  • A run sheet with the line to say, the surface to show and the thing the prospect can check themselves
  • Leave-behind links, seats for their engineers, and a recorded recap of what was shown and what they checked themselves
  • Your product's screens, consoles and device panels authored by us to match what you actually sell

What it is not

  • No connection ever writes back and nothing is pulled without a scoped grant the prospect can revoke
  • Nothing real executes, so it proves the workflow, not your production deployment
  • Kits are authored per customer rather than self-serve, so a new product surface takes build time

Forge Proof Room against the field

39 capabilities that matter for this purchase, next to the platforms a buyer shortlists in this lane: Reprise, Demostack, Walnut, Consensus, Saleo. Reprise, Demostack, Walnut, Consensus, Saleo sit outside the eight-vendor research, so they carry no marks below — named for honesty, not scored.

  • A solutions engineer gets a live, bounded environment with a run sheet, not a recorded video.
  • The prospect can drive it themselves from a shared link.
Forge Proof Room capability comparison against 0 platforms
What you needForge Proof RoomIncluded in the platform
Multi-machine technical scenarios
Genuine operating-system and native target executionThe clearest competitor advantage in the whole register.
Coming
Deliberate design, and the trade is worth reading: because nothing real executes, a range opens in seconds, is disposable between runs and carries no infrastructure to patch, isolate or clean up. A declared native lane is the bridge for the cases that genuinely need real execution; until it ships we do not claim this.
Disposable, zero-risk practice environmentsNo VM to provision, isolate or rebuild — a fresh estate every run, with nothing real to break.A range opens in seconds in the browser, resets to a clean state on every run and costs nothing to stand up or tear down — so practice is frequent instead of scheduled around infrastructure.
Delivered entirely in the browserNo VM to provision, so a lab opens in seconds rather than minutes.
Private or isolated practice environments
Team live-fire response
Red and blue or adversarial team modes
Customer-specific technical scenarios
Customer machine-image import
By design, no
Requires the native lane. Immersive is the only documented example.
Facilitated technical exercises
Business impact linked to technical work
Learner configures routing and firewall behaviorRouting, switching, wireless and firewall labs where a wrong rule is visible on the wire.
The same attempt survives refresh and reconnectPublished as a result you can watch run, not as a feature claim.The attempt is cut at every step and recovered from each one, in your own browser as the page loads.
Proof of consistent shared state under concurrencyForty seats receive the same actions backwards, jumbled, duplicated and after a late join, and all land on one world.
Organizational learning and administration product
Assign content and development plans
Team and sub-team reporting
Hiring or skills-assessment workflow
Yes, in part See it live
Framework-linked readinessATT&CK coverage is computed from detections that actually fired, not from a content tag.
AI-assisted custom technical content
Delegated content-creator role
Single sign-on documented in the reviewed source
Yes, in part
Auth is in place; an enterprise SSO and LMS launch contract is still being built.
Public API or integration capability
Yes, in part See it live
44 languages (7 native + 37 AI-translated)44 languages (7 native, 37 extended), and technical evidence left untranslated so investigations still work.
Accessibility (WCAG / screen reader / keyboard)Immersive Labs publishes a WCAG 2.2 accessibility statement; Hack The Box documents text-to-speech. Others: verify.Keyboard and screen-reader paths are verified on every change and the tested scope is published; an independent audit has not been done.
Voice navigationVoice-driven navigation and command entry. No competitor documents this publicly — verify with each.Hands-free navigation and terminal input across the Arena and lab desktops.
Published concurrency evidence for a full classConvergence under hostile delivery is computed in front of the reader. A matched benchmark against another vendor exists for nobody, us included.
Decision-level coaching from the learner's own trailWhat was opened, revisited, how long before committing, and whether the action had support.Published with the list of what we never collect: no keystrokes, no clipboard, no screen recording.
Contracted rapid custom-delivery service level
Coming
Physical and layer-1 equipment faults as graded contentCables, optics, network cards, switch ports, power, cooling, disks, memory, firmware, peripherals and wireless.Faults planted from a seed, visible in counters, syslog, sensors and on the wire.
Escalation graded on reaching the owning departmentA right diagnosis sent to the wrong queue with the wrong evidence scores as wrong.
NIST CSF, NICE, DoD 8140 and ATT&CK mapping on every activityReported in the customer's own workforce and coverage vocabulary.
Whole exercise reachable by screen reader and keyboardNot just the portal around the lab — the terminals and consoles themselves.Our own verification; an independent audit has not been done.
Editors behave like the real ones, including a write conflictvi, Emacs, nano and pico with regex search, substitution, marks, visual mode, syntax highlighting by file type, and the warning you get when a file is already open elsewhere.Leaving an editor hands focus back to the shell that launched it, on every terminal — Bash, PowerShell and cmd.
Command-line tools parse the real syntax rather than matching fixturessed, awk, grep and cat run genuine engines: BRE/ERE/fixed/PCRE dialects, hold space, branching, labels, BEGIN/END blocks, arrays, printf, redirection and true exit codes.A wrong flag fails the way it fails on a real box, so a learner cannot pass by typing the expected answer.
Wireless, Bluetooth and wide-area links as first-class estateAccess points and SSIDs, paired devices, rooftop bridges, IPSec, WireGuard and MPLS sites with radio and link faults.
Prospect-driven demo room a seller can run liveA shared session the prospect drives, mirrored read-only, with domain kits, a run sheet and answers to the usual objections.Bounded profiles and join codes; nothing of the customer's own network is touched.
Paste a scenario document and get a wired, editable labEvents, journal records, alerts and the case console are wired automatically, and shown back for checking before anything is created.Windows log records are corrected against a canonical channel and provider table; a rename writes both journal records, so the old name stays answerable.
Shared network storage that persists across machinesMapped drive letters on Windows, NFS and CIFS mount points on Linux, fstab and mtab, private home drives and discoverable credentials.What one host writes to a share, another host reads later in the same exercise.

The run behind this line: The campaign a buyer is walked through

The demonstration run: one breach from the email that started it to the closed case, with every claim backed by something on screen.

Opponent: Silver Lantern — a scripted intrusion built for demonstration honesty. Shaped after A composite intrusion built only from steps the range can actually execute. Technique and zone identifiers are published by MITRE and ISA/IEC; the mapping is ours and is not an accreditation.

How it starts — the message delivered to the mailbox

From
Northwind Procurement <tenders@northwind-procure.example>
Subject
Tender NW-2291 — revised scope, response due Thursday
Link
shows “Supplier portal”, really points at https://supplier-portal.northwind-procure.example/auth
  • A supplier portal on a domain nobody has seen before
  • The organization's real portal uses federated sign-in, not a password form
  • Removal from a shortlist as the threat — pressure aimed at a business outcome

Graded verdict: phish — T1566.002. Nothing here sends or resolves anywhere real.

The steps, and the zone each one crosses

#TacticATT&CKOn the rangeIEC 62443 zone
1Initial accessT1566.002 Phishing: spearphishing linkA credential form collects the password and the second factor code.Enterprise
2Credential accessT1621 Multi-factor authentication request generationThe captured code is replayed inside its validity window.Identity
3PersistenceT1098.005 Device registrationA new authenticator is enrolled so the password reset will not help.Cloud tenant
4CollectionT1114.002 Remote email collectionA mailbox rule quietly forwards anything mentioning payment.Cloud tenant

Zones in this run: Enterprise (Purdue level 4/5, via Internet mail and web egress); Identity (Purdue level 4, via LDAP and Kerberos to the domain controllers); Cloud tenant (Purdue level 4, via Federated sign-in and management API). How the zone model is used.

The alerts the SIEM raises from this run

  • Authentication replayed from a second address

    The same session token seen from two networks minutes apart.

    cloud audit · stage 2 · LINE-PROOF-01 · T1621

  • New authentication method registered

    An authenticator enrolled from a device with no prior sign-in.

    cloud audit · stage 3 · LINE-PROOF-02 · T1098.005

  • Mailbox rule forwarding externally

    An inbox rule with an external forward and a keyword filter.

    cloud audit · stage 4 · LINE-PROOF-03 · T1114.002

What the case has to hold before it closes

  • The email that started it, kept as evidence
  • The identity actions the attacker took, in order
  • The tenant persistence that a password reset would have missed
  • The eviction steps and the proof each one worked

Start learning this line

The campaign the proof room walks a buyer through.

Start the lab

A tick means the other platform's own documentation shows it. A question mark means we could not confirm it publicly — it is never a claim that they lack it. Every Forge yes opens the working screen rather than a screenshot.