Designing a Cyber Range Exercise for Educational Purposes

Cybersecurity is an emergent need in educational and industrial contexts. There is an increase need to train skilled people, students and employees on cybersecurity techniques. Training is one of the weaknesses identified within the industry especially by practitioners, and the use of cyber ranges is motivated. Cyber ranges are envisaged as infrastructures for training purposes. This paper provides an overview of cyber ranges, and a cyber range exercise design process illustrated with an example. This exercise is used in academic sector and it can be extrapolated to industrial contexts.