Abstract
Sandia National Laboratories performed a 6-month effort to stand up a “zero-entry” cyber range environment for the purpose of providing self-directed practice to augment transmedia learning across diverse media and/or devices that may be part of a loosely coupled, distributed ecosystem. This 6-month effort leveraged Minimega, an open-source Emulytics™ (emulation + analytics) tool for launching and managing virtual machines in a cyber range. The proof of concept addressed a set of learning objectives for cybersecurity operations by providing three, short “zero-entry” exercises for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels in network forensics, social engineering, penetration testing, and reverse engineering. Learners provided answers to problems they explored in networked virtual machines. The hands-on environment, Cyber Scorpion, participated in a preliminary demonstration in April 2017 at Ft. Bragg, NC. The present chapter describes the learning experience research and software development effort for a cybersecurity use case and subsequent lessons learned. It offers general recommendations for challenges which may be present in future learning ecosystems.
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Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by the National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA-0003525. This work was supported by the ADL Initiative (Contract QL6H5R66F007MP-0). The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the ADL Initiative.
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Raybourn, E.M., Kunz, M., Fritz, D., Urias, V. (2018). A Zero-Entry Cyber Range Environment for Future Learning Ecosystems. In: Koç, Ç.K. (eds) Cyber-Physical Systems Security. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98935-8_5
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