Cyber Range is platform designed to help organisations improve their security capabilities to ensure that they are adequately prepared for cyber attacks in networks created in a virtual environment. Cyber Range has three critical services: practice, validation and experimentation. As a training platform, it aims at developing skills to defend systems and organizations against cyber-attacks. It also reproduces/simulates information and industrial systems from the simplest to the most complicated, in order to analyse their resistance to attacks. It is also a useful tool for evaluating security products and solutions in terms of cyber security.
At KINDI Computing Research Center we are using Cyber Range for training and evaluation of research ideas. We organise Capture-the-Flag (CtF) competitions where competitors use their skills to compete in identifying hidden flags in scenarios of vulnerable programs or websites created in Cyber Range. Our CtFs are designed to serve as an educational exercise to give participants experience in securing systems, conducting and reacting to the type of attacks found in the real world. Examples of the activities undertaken by CtF participants include reverse-engineering, network sniffing, protocol analysis, system administration, programming, crypto analysis, and writing exploits. We are also leveraging the features of Cyber Range to create network system configurations which we use to evaluate the effectiveness of the latest ideas coming out of our cyber security research.