ECHO federated cyber range: Towards next-generation scalable cyber ranges

Nikos Oikonomou; Notis Mengidis; Minas Spanopoulos-Karalexidis; Antonis Voulgaridis; Matteo Merialdo; Ivo Raisr; Kaarel Hanson; Paloma De La Vallee; Theodora Tsikrika; Stefanos Vrochidis; Konstantinos Votis

doi:10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527985

ECHO federated cyber range: Towards next-generation scalable cyber ranges

Nikos Oikonomou, Notis Mengidis, Minas Spanopoulos-Karalexidis, Antonis Voulgaridis, Matteo Merialdo, Ivo Raisr, Kaarel Hanson, Paloma De La Vallee, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Konstantinos Votis

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Abstract

Cyber ranges are valuable assets but have limitations in simulating complex realities and multi-sector dependencies; to address this, federated cyber ranges are emerging. This work presents the ECHO Federated Cyber Range, a marketplace for cyber range services, that establishes a mechanism by which independent cyber range capabilities can be interconnected and accessed via a convenient portal. This allows for more complex and complete emulations, spanning potentially multiple sectors and complex exercises. Moreover, it supports a semi-automated approach for processing and deploying service requests to assist customers and providers interfacing with the marketplace. Its features and architecture are described in detail, along with the design, validation and deployment of a training scenario.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	403-408
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665402859
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527985
Publication status	Published - 26 Jul 2021
Event	2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021 - Virtual, Rhodes, Greece Duration: 26 Jul 2021 → 28 Jul 2021

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Name	Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021

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Conference	2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Virtual, Rhodes
Period	26/07/21 → 28/07/21

Keywords

Cyber range
Federated
Simulation
Training

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Oikonomou, N., Mengidis, N., Spanopoulos-Karalexidis, M., Voulgaridis, A., Merialdo, M., Raisr, I., Hanson, K., De La Vallee, P., Tsikrika, T., Vrochidis, S., & Votis, K. (2021). ECHO federated cyber range: Towards next-generation scalable cyber ranges. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021 (pp. 403-408). (Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527985

Oikonomou, Nikos ; Mengidis, Notis ; Spanopoulos-Karalexidis, Minas et al. / ECHO federated cyber range : Towards next-generation scalable cyber ranges. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. pp. 403-408 (Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021).

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Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. p. 403-408 (Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021).

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Oikonomou N, Mengidis N, Spanopoulos-Karalexidis M, Voulgaridis A, Merialdo M, Raisr I et al. ECHO federated cyber range: Towards next-generation scalable cyber ranges. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2021. p. 403-408. (Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021). doi: 10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527985

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