This report details the design considerations and execution plan for
building high-fidelity, realistic virtual cyber ranges that deliver
maximum training and exercise value for participants. A cyber range is a
fully interactive virtual instance of the IT infrastructure of a mid-to
enterprise-level organization that is dedicated to cyberwarfare
training and exercise. The Software Engineering Institute CERT Cyber
Workforce Development (SEI/CERT/CWD) team at Carnegie Mellon University
has provided a wide array of cyber ranges spanning various levels of
complexity to the Department of Defense (DoD) since 2012. This report
draws on tens of thousands of hours of experience and expertise in
designing, developing, deploying, troubleshooting, maintaining, and
improving cyber ranges. The most frequent use case for a cyber range is
team exercise. Team exercises can focus on incident response, malware
removal, network takeover, process improvement, and many other
specialized use cases. This report summarizes the SEI/CERT/CWD current
state of the art when it comes to delivering high-fidelity/realistic
cyber ranges to DoD and non-DoD customers that support the complex
operating environments required for their training and exercise
purposes.
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