Towards a Robust and Scalable Cyber Range Federation for Sectoral Cyber/Hybrid Exercising: The Red Ranger and ECHO Collaborative Experience

George Sharkov, Christina T odorova, Georgi Koykov, Ivan Nikolov
2022 Information & Security An International Journal  
Cyber exercising is essential to crisis management preparation and maintaining a robust cybersecurity posture. To prepare for growing hybrid threats, complex cyber-hybrid scenarios with practical cooperation at the technical, operational, and higher decision-making levels are increasingly being used, leveraging the power of cyber ranges. Alas, owing to a lack of suitable simulation infrastructure and the ability to adapt cyber ranges to varied situations, such complex scenarios often remain
more » ... cessible. The federation of cyber ranges is one potential response to this challenge, providing a solution for the individual cyber range limitations in terms of resources to replicate complex cybersecurity-relevant realities. The current contribution describes the authors' experience designing the Red Ranger, a Composite Cyber Range. We detail the design and development to facilitate the agility required to support a working multi-faceted federation with the ECHO Cyber Range to allow for an "exercise-as-a-service" model to provide adequate and accessible cyber-hybrid mechanisms for crisis response training and preparation.
doi:10.11610/isij.5319 fatcat:35jesc4iinezjeohwy6naycg6a