European Cyber Range Community

An ECSO Initiative

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By joining ECSO’s Cyber Range Community, you will contribute to the consolidation of approaches of European cyber range-enabled services and concepts, promote and support the development of best practices and guidelines that define the “European Cyber Range” and its uptake, and help shape the further development of European cyber range platforms & solutions.

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To promote and support the best practices and develop guidelines that define cyber ranges, ECSO has identified the key features of a cyber range platform, presented in the form of a checklist for end-users and groups. This checklist can be leveraged by end users to define their cyber range requirements and subsequent award criteria for electronic tenders for procurement purposes. ECSO, through its Call to Action, has also identified European cyber range providers, providing for the first time a central point and repository of these providers.

GOALS

Identify, gather information and bring together the European cyber range community and the different providers to consolidate the approaches of European cyber-range-enabled services’ exercise methodologies and concepts.
Develop a catalogue of European cyber range providers to assist in the selection of cyber ranges in relation to different use cases and business domain verticals.
Set up a cyber range and related services brokerage platform allowing end users to express their needs and facilitate matchmaking within the European cyber range community
Provide guidance to end users and groups on the main features and requirements that could potentially form part of the award criteria when selecting a cyber range provider.
Support providers in showcasing the range, depth and breadth of platform offerings at a European level, raising awareness of the benefits of cyber range platforms and further promoting the market.

WHO SHOULD JOIN AND WHY?

Security professionals: develop cyber capabilities and competences
Operators: increase cyber resilience / ensure business continuity
HR: assess competences through simulations
Governments: organise large-scale exercises and national competitions
Companies: run system and application simulations / test and demonstrate critical capabilities
Academia (researchers): research new attack detection and mitigation methods, malware emulation, etc.
Academia (educators): improve teaching and learning (apply hands-on training)