1. ECHO Federated Cyber Range: Towards Next-Generation Scalable Cyber Ranges
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Antonis Voulgaridis, Ivo Raisr, Theodora Tsikrika, Matteo Merialdo, Nikos Oikonomou, Stefanos Vrochidis, Kaarel Hanson, Paloma de La Vallee, Minas Spanopoulos-Karalexidis, Notis Mengidis, and Konstantinos Votis
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Service (systems architecture) ,Emulation ,training ,cybersecurity ,Computer science ,Echo (communications protocol) ,Distributed computing ,simulation ,federated ,cyber range ,situational awareness ,Range (mathematics) ,Software deployment ,Interfacing ,Scalability ,Architecture - Abstract
Cyber ranges are valuable assets but have limitations in simulating complex realities and multi-sector dependencies; to address this, federated cyber ranges are emerging. This work presents the ECHO Federated Cyber Range, a marketplace for cyber range services, that establishes a mechanism by which independent cyber range capabilities can be interconnected and accessed via a convenient portal. This allows for more complex and complete emulations, spanning potentially multiple sectors and complex exercises. Moreover, it supports a semi-automated approach for processing and deploying service requests to assist customers and providers interfacing with the marketplace. Its features and architecture are described in detail, along with the design, validation and deployment of a training scenario.
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