Specialized Cyber Defense Training for Government and Military
Strengthen Security Teams with Cloud Range’s Cyber Range and Training Platform
Ensure Your Cyber Defense Is as Relentless as the Adversaries You Face
In an era where digital threats are increasingly intricate and state-sponsored, Cloud Range has introduced a cyber defense solution tailored specifically for government and military sectors – incorporating a range of skills and experience for any job role. Cloud Range’s cyber range and simulation training and assessment platform provides realistic live-fire simulations that mimic the high-stakes environment of national security cyber challenges. Prepare security teams with the skills they need to identify, respond to, and mitigate sophisticated cyber threats effectively.
Custom and Relevant Training
Cloud Range is a trusted advisor in maintaining national security and protecting critical infrastructure, offering continuous cybersecurity training that meets the rigorous standards of federal and military readiness. Cloud Range’s comprehensive approach ensures that the training is directly relevant to the critical needs of federal agencies, state and local government, and military organizations, focusing on enhancing their defensive capabilities against the most severe threats.
Let’s safeguard national interests together with precision and expertise.
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“Our collaboration with Cloud Range has been exceptional, and we eagerly anticipate further exercises.”
- Candace Wynn, State of Florida Cyber Community Ops Manager
5 Key Purposes of a Cyber Range
PROFESSIONAL CYBER DEFENSE PREPAREDNESS TRAINING
The cyber range will provide a training ground for cybersecurity professionals from around the state and region to hone their cyber defense skills in a hyper-realistic simulated environment. No different than pilots using a flight simulator, simulation training will allow for advanced learning and practice on an ongoing basis, especially as new types of cyber attacks continue to occur.
PROACTIVE PROTECTION OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Attacks on critical infrastructure represent one of the greatest threats to society. If the power grid, water, or energy systems are breached, it can single-handedly halt society. State governments, municipalities, and utilities will be able to train to defend against these inevitable threats.
MULTIPLE SIMULATION TRAINING EXERCISES
The cyber range will provide opportunities for both IT and ICS/OT security and executive teams to participate in incident response simulation exercises to establish and test their preparedness in the event of a cyber attack. There are IT, OT and cloud simulation training exercises for blue teams, red teams, purple teams, incident response, forensics, and more, as well as capture the flag events and next-gen tabletop exercises.
HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
The cyber range will foster workforce development by providing public and private colleges and universities the ability to augment their cybersecurity curriculum to include hands-on, practical learning in a simulation lab, as well as by helping individuals gain valuable training and experience to enter the workforce and fill otherwise vacant jobs.
CYBER CERTIFICATION PREP AND SKILLS TRAINING
The cyber range includes simulation-based, hands-on skill-development exercises that allow users to enhance their skills, prepare for industry certifications, and apply their knowledge performing actual cybersecurity functions in a virtualized environment. The interactive content library includes over 1,500 labs designed for all levels from novice learners to advanced and experienced cyber professionals.
Nebraska National Guard Uses Cloud Range to Strengthen Cyber Defense
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Cloud Range for Government and Military
Combat modern warfare while developing and retaining a powerful cyber workforce
A cyber range is a state-of-the-art cybersecurity training platform that provides cybersecurity training, incident response simulation exercises, and opportunities for cybersecurity workforce development.
The cyber range will train and prepare cybersecurity professionals from both the private and public sectors to defend against the growing number of cyber attacks that threaten individuals, businesses, governments, the military, and critical infrastructure. Additionally, the cyber range will help students prepare for jobs in cybersecurity, ultimately filling the grave skills shortage.
The cyber range enables trainees of all levels and industries to use advanced simulation to experience cyber attacks in a realistic, safe environment in order to be prepared to defend against threats.
Benefits for CIOs, CISOs, Security Leaders in Government and Military
Have a confident team ready to defend
Prove readiness with actionable metrics and results
Identify and bridge any gaps or vulnerabilities
Accelerate onboarding and time to value
Measurably improve security posture
Team Simulation Exercises
Cloud Range provides a suite of live-fire attack simulations — available as single missions or an ongoing program — for Security Operation Center (SOC) and Incident Response (IR) teams, including:
All live-fire simulation exercises are eligible for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits upon completion.
Cloud Range also offers simulation solutions for individual development and training, candidate assessments, and more.
Every one of Cloud Range’s exercises, labs, scenarios, assessments, scores, and more are accessed through the Performance Portal.
Library of Live-Fire Simulations
Cloud Range uses the latest threat intelligence to regularly add to our library of live-fire IT, OT/ICS, and cloud attack simulations, which are mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK frameworks. Attack simulations range from nation-state actors like Volt Typhoon, to election security, to threats on utilities, and more. And with Cloud Range’s proprietary traffic generator, the complexity of simulations can be increased or decreased to mimic real-world scenarios.
The experiential learning platform helps security professionals of all levels – from novice learners to advanced and experienced cyber professionals – develop and hone essential abilities to identify and mitigate security threats, as well as the soft skills required to communicate and work effectively with others.
Aligned to Industry Frameworks
Cloud Range's live-fire simulation and lab exercises are mapped to industry-standard frameworks, including MITRE ATT&CK Frameworks, the NIST/NICE Cybersecurity Framework, and the US DoD Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF). This ensures your team is equipped with the right skills and knowledge to face today's ever-evolving cyber threats, implement best practices, meet regulatory needs, and achieve industry benchmarks for excellence.
ICS/OT Incident Response
Cloud Range has the ONLY virtual ICS/OT cyber range for live-fire team training. With the number of industrial control systems (ICS) security threats rising, it’s critical to have a training solution that serves both IT and OT. A cyberattack on OT can affect critical infrastructure, engineering assets, the environment, and people’s lives. Our OT training simulations help security teams understand where bad actors could gain entry, different attack flows, and how to best respond.
Tabletop 2.0 Exercises
Cloud Range Tabletop 2.0 is a next-generation tabletop exercise that allows both technical and leadership/non-technical participants to see and understand all aspects of a live threat. The exercises incorporate Cloud Range’s virtual cyber range and live-fire simulations – including detection, response, and recovery – so participants can have technical, business, and risk perspectives.
Leadership receives all the information needed to analyze and take a risk-based approach to allocating resources, focusing on the most critical risk, and responding effectively to the threat.
Election security is vital to protecting democracy in a free and fair society.
Cloud Range’s virtual training range is the country’s FIRST and ONLY election cybersecurity specific training platform that can minimize the likelihood of threats to the electoral process – such as cyber attacks that can compromise elections within seconds.
Network and Tool Customization
Cloud Range trainees access a robust, cloud-based, multi-segment enterprise network that includes application servers, database servers, email servers, switches, routers, traffic and alerts. Cloud Range integrates licensed security products including SIEMs, firewalls, IDS’s, endpoint security systems, analysis tools, and more, allowing trainees to practice using the same products they use in real life. New environments, tools, components, and attack simulations are added regularly.
The environment lets teams proactively test, assess, recognize, and respond to IT, OT and cloud cybersecurity incidents, practice and improve forensic capabilities, and rehearse and refine incident response playbooks.
Measuring and Reporting
All individual and team progress is tracked in Cloud Range's Performance Portal™ with scoring and exposure analysis that factors in KSAs from the NIST/NICE Framework, TTPs from MITRE, industry-specific regulations and frameworks, job requirements, soft skills, and mean and actual time to detection. Customized individual learning plans can be generated based on experience, roles, gaps, and objectives.
Organizations can track the performance and progress of individuals, teams, and divisions, providing insight into their cyber readiness to bridge any gaps. Cloud Range provides detailed metrics and analysis of individual/team performance, including technical proficiencies and soft skills. The reporting provided through the platform and directly to leadership through executive debriefs provides insight to security leaders into cyber readiness to bridge any gaps and enables them to show measurable progress in cyber resilience and reducing risk.
State of Florida Improves Cyber Incident Response
Using Cloud Range's Attack Simulation Training Program
Make Your Mark
Cloud Range’s cyber range will help public sector agencies and organizations avoid the crippling effects of a cyber attack and will ensure government and military are poised to defend against the increasingly complex threat landscape. The simulation platform will also provide the ability to develop a skilled workforce and deliver economic benefits.
About Cloud Range
Cloud Range is a pioneer in cybersecurity simulation training, providing the first-ever full-service, customizable cyber attack simulation training solution in the world. Used by enterprise SOC and incident response teams, managed security service providers (MSSPs), governments, higher education institutions, utilities, critical infrastructure, and many other industries, Cloud Range enables organizations to accelerate the cyber defense skills of their cybersecurity professionals using its proprietary simulation training and assessment platform. Customers can train security teams, assess candidates, onboard new hires, and improve cybersecurity team skills, significantly reducing cyber risk.
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