Cyber Ranges Federation Project

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Aim

The cyber ranges participating in the project are multi-purpose environments supporting three primary processes: (1) education, training and exercises (ETE); (2) asset test and risk analysis; and (3) cyber defence exercises and knowledge sharing. The project objective is to develop a sophisticated and powerful platform at European level not by building a new cyber range, but instead by interconnecting Member States’ national cyber defence exercises communities (including countries that do not have their own cyber ranges), in order to allow each of the participating members to train and further improve their respective cyber defence skills as well as to enhance the functionalities and capacities of existing, emerging and future cyber ranges.

Context

The importance of cyber range facilities in support of training and exercises was recognised in the 2014 Capability Development Plan (CDP) as an important capability gap that needs to be urgently tackled. It was also observed that, while many Member States were already building military cyber ranges, their efficiency would depend on their ability to cover the full scope of simulation activities and provide a realistic and effective experience to users. However, the complexity of the cyberspace, the wide range of attack vectors and many other factors made it very difficult to concentrate the full scope of activities into a single cyber range. Consequently, in May 2017, EDA launched the Cyber Ranges Federation project which aims to pool and share existing cyber ranges capabilities between Member States. The project currently has eight participating Member States (pMS), namely Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia and Sweden.

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PESCO EU