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Press releases
EventsLabshock Teaches OT Security at the CYBERGY FAU Summer School 2026
The second edition of the Erlangen summer school brought around 35 students, researchers and industry practitioners together for a week on securing critical infrastructure.
EventsLabshock Listed Among the OT/ICS Resources to Learn From in 2026
Mike Holcomb names the platform in a curated list of nineteen resources for the year, under projects and again under repositories worth cloning.
Product ReleaseLabshock Makes Wazuh Available as a Free OT SIEM Lab
A Wazuh manager and dashboard connected to a live industrial environment, with no license, trial or card required.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases Firegate: An Operable 6 kV Substation for DNP3 and IEC 104 Security Testing
The new zone lets security teams send a real control command through a substation and then verify whether their detection stack saw it.
EventsLabshock Named Headliner and First Partner of BSides Paris 2026
Two years after community members first demonstrated the platform on stage in São Paulo and Aarhus, Labshock headlines Paris this October.
PartnershipLabshock Partners With Boots to Cyber to Move Veterans Into Industrial Cybersecurity
The partnership targets the gap between general cyber training and the operational understanding critical infrastructure roles require.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases Thunderwatch: PLC Programming From Scan Cycle to Live Memory
The zone teaches control logic itself — scan cycle, ladder logic, structured text and live memory — on the grounds that detection built without it sees traffic but misses meaning.
PartnershipLabshock Partners With Y Cyber on Operational OT Security
The Italian OT specialist brings industrial operations and incident response; Labshock brings the environment to test them in. Together the loop closes: test, detect, validate, improve.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases Builder: Generate Full IT, DMZ and OT Environments on Demand
Users can generate full industrial environments across IT, DMZ and OT layers with automated routing, alongside the Gasflow Terminal turbine lab and portable lab deployment.
EventsForty Minutes From Modbus Theory to Writing Coils on a Live PLC
An OT Leaders Club webinar walks the whole path in one session — the protocol, the running plant, the network scan that finds it, the write that changes it, and the traffic that shows it happened.
EventsThree Industries, Real Sensors, One Mini PC, Bound for Houston
Water, oil and railway environments wired to physical buttons and lights, with detection and SIEM on top, all running from a single small machine in the OT/ICS Training Village.
PartnershipLabshock Partners With OT Leaders Club to Reach Latin America
A partnership aimed at Mexico and the wider Spanish-speaking community, putting hands-on OT security labs within reach of a region that has had few of them.
EventsLabshock Listed First Among Free Ways to Build an OT Home Lab
Mike Holcomb answers the question that stops most people before they start — an OT home lab gets expensive fast — with a list of free options, and puts Labshock at the top of it.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases Netfields and Logicveil: Modbus Registers and Siemens S7 Data Blocks
Two protocol zones taking users into register manipulation, S7 data blocks and SCADA-to-PLC communication analysis, with more than 30 new quests.
EventsMike Holcomb Tests a Live Process on OT Cyber Tuesday
Episode fifteen tours the platform and then works through it in depth, exercising the environment until the change reaches the process behind it.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases Signalspire: A Water Treatment Plant and a Levels 1-20 Path
A second zone extends the path beyond onboarding, adding the Eastwater Facility water treatment lab and the master-slave Railroad North environment.
EventsAn AI System Reaches a PLC Inside Labshock, Under Constraint
Raffaele Forte publishes a controlled OT exercise in which Xfenser AI reads an industrial scenario, interacts with a PLC and produces a measurable outcome without leaving its defined limits.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases World of Labshock: A Progression-Based Path Through OT Security
The platform moves from isolated industrial labs to a progression-based training system, opening with the Loginward zone and the Utility Works lab.
EventsDeep Dive into LabShock Runs at BSides Mulhouse
Ndeye Adama Drame led the 09:50 workshop on the programme, taking a room of IT, OT and ethical hacking people through industrial architectures and attack and response scenarios.
EventsLabshock Drives Real Hardware for the First Time, at HOU.SEC.CON
In the GuidePoint Security booth, an E-Stop button, a stack light and a temperature sensor were wired to the platform — the first time a Labshock environment controlled physical equipment rather than a simulated process.
EventsLabshock Presented to the ISC2 West Midlands Chapter
Anwar Khan took the platform to a chapter meetup at BT's Birmingham office, presenting what it offers a security community that mostly works outside industrial environments.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases SIEM Integration: Industrial Telemetry Inside Splunk and ELK
OT telemetry forwarded into enterprise SIEM platforms, with preconfigured collectors and dashboards making PLC and SCADA activity observable in standard SOC tooling.
EventsICS Arabia Teaches Its Beginner OT Security Course on Labshock
Five modules from OT fundamentals through offensive technique to mitigation, with the practical work done inside Labshock rather than described.
EventsDaniel Lowrie Builds a Full OT Lab on Camera, Start to Finish
A forty-minute walkthrough takes Labshock from an empty home lab to a running SCADA system, then works through the PLCs, the engineering workstation, the IDS and the offensive tooling.
EventsLabshock Runs Hands-On OT Labs at DEF CON in the ICS Village
Attendees operated real industrial systems rather than watching them described, working through defence scenarios on running plant instead of on slides.
EventsNVISO Publishes a Refinery Attack Walkthrough Built on Labshock
Part two of NVISO's operational technology series stands up a virtual oil plant, finds the PLC, reads its Modbus registers and then scripts the write that moves the pumps.
EventsModbus Workshop Runs an Oil Pumping Station Inside Labshock
Attendees configured SCADA and PLC systems, issued Modbus commands against a simulated oil pumping station, then read their own traffic back and found the unauthorised access in it.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases Industrial DMZ Architecture: IT, DMZ and OT Zones You Can Test Across
Environments split into IT, DMZ and OT zones, so firewall rules, controlled data transfers and restricted communication paths can be inspected rather than assumed.
EventsLabshock and ICE Announce a Free Hands-On Modbus OT SIEM Workshop
An hour of Modbus protocol security run live in simulated industrial environments, delivered with the Institute of Cybersecurity Excellence and open to attend at no cost.
EventsICS Arabia Podcast Devotes an Episode to Labshock
Episode 51 puts the platform in front of the podcast's audience as a free and open OT testbed — no hardware required, and on the host's framing, no excuses left.
EventsLabshock Reaches Europe at BSides Aarhus, Its Second BSides
Michael Weng of SektorCERT introduced the platform to the European community with a live OT attack simulation, and the organisers listed it in the official programme as a tool for OT and ICS learning.
EventsLabshock Reaches the BSides Stage for the First Time, in São Paulo
Wagner Rodrigues built a full industrial plant inside the platform for a talk on simulating chaos in industrial environments, and attendees were running their own OT tests in it the following day.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases Pentest Fury: End-to-End Threat Chains Against Industrial Systems
A dedicated testing framework for industrial control systems, adding ICS reconnaissance, industrial network scanning, Modbus testing and structured end-to-end threat chains.
Product ReleaseLabshock Opens Its YouTube Channel With a Full Platform Introduction
The opening video sets out the problem the platform was built for — that red and blue teams have nowhere to test OT threats — and then walks the deployment, simulation and detection workflow end to end.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases the Lab Portal: One Entry Point for Engineering, Visibility and Testing
One entry point replacing isolated engineering, SCADA and security testing modules, and the foundation for structured learning paths.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases Tidal Collector: Industrial Telemetry Into One Pipeline
Structured log ingestion and telemetry collection for industrial control systems, normalising SCADA and PLC events into a single pipeline for security monitoring.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases Network Swiftness: Packet-Level Visibility Into Industrial Traffic
Real-time inspection of OT and ICS traffic inside the platform, with connection tracking and early integration patterns for Zeek and Suricata.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases the Pentest Station: Reconnaissance and Testing Against Simulated SCADA
A Kali-based testing base for structured reconnaissance and threat simulation against simulated SCADA and PLC environments, without touching production infrastructure.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases the Engineering Workstation: Write and Deploy PLC Logic Against a Live Process
A Kali-based workstation with OpenPLC Editor and SCADA templates built in, moving the platform from observing industrial processes to engineering them.
Product ReleaseLabshock Releases Oilsprings: An Operable Oil Pumping Station for ICS Training
An oil pumping station built from SCADA visualisation and OpenPLC control logic, released as a controlled environment where industrial processes can be observed under both normal and manipulated conditions.
Product ReleaseLabshock Security Opens a Company Page Ahead of the Oilsprings Launch
The project takes on a company identity as its first industrial engine reaches ninety per cent, with releases, events and updates moving to a single channel.
Company facts
Boilerplate
Labshock Security LLC builds hands-on OT/ICS cybersecurity environments where industrial control systems can be operated, tested and defended safely. The platform runs real SCADA interfaces, real PLC runtimes and genuine industrial protocols — Modbus TCP, Siemens S7comm, DNP3 and IEC 60870-5-104 — in isolated environments used for security training, authorised penetration testing and detection validation. Part of Labshock is open source at github.com/zakharb/labshock, and the platform is used by security teams, universities and training providers internationally.
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