Abstract

AbstractCyber security research is quintessential to secure computerized systems against cyber threats. Likewise, cyber security training and exercises are instrumental in ensuring that the professionals protecting the systems have the right set of skills to do the job. Cyber ranges provide platforms for testing, experimentation and training, but developing and executing experiments and training sessions are labour intensive and require highly skilled personnel. Several cyber range operators are developing automated tools to speed up the creation of emulated environments and scenarios as well as to increase the number and quality of the executed events. In this paper we investigate automated tools used in cyber ranges and research initiatives designated to augment cyber ranges automation. We also investigate the automation features in CRATE (Cyber Range And Training Environment) operated by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).

Highlights

  • A cyber range is a specialized facility dedicated to cyber security where research experiments and training sessions can be executed in a controlled fashion

  • The Python client is primarily used for scripting purposes and the Java client is used by the graphical user interface called Cyber Range and Training Environment (CRATE) Core graphical user interfaces (GUIs)

  • In this paper we have presented a compilation of automated tools used in cyber ranges, as well as several research initiatives designated to further increase cyber range automation

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Summary

Introduction

A cyber range is a specialized facility dedicated to cyber security where research experiments and training sessions can be executed in a controlled fashion. There is a need to validate the emulated environments prior to executing events [13,22]. To address these challenges, several cyber range operators are developing automated tools [11,13,35,45,51]. We investigate the current status and research trends in automated cyber range tools. 2, related work is presented, followed by a presentation of the cyber range CRATE in Sect.

Related Work
History
Architecture
Emulated Environments
Hardware Devices
CRATE Core API
Cyber Range Users
Range Provisioning
System and Service Configuration
Exercise Management
Inject and Test Execution
User Emulation and Traffic Generation
Data Collection
Research Experiments
Training Sessions and Exercise Events
Automated Tools in Cyber Ranges
Discussion
Conclusions
Apache Software Foundation
42. Stralskyddsmyndigheten
44. The Deter Project
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