A survey of cloud-hosted, publicly-available, cyber-ranges for educational institutions

A survey of cloud-hosted, publicly-available, cyber-ranges for educational institutions

연구 분야: Strategies

학회: Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 38, Issue 1

Creating, deploying, maintaining, and updating cybersecurity hands-on labs is difficult at best, if not impossible for small to mid-size colleges and universities with limited faculty and staff. For each faculty member there is a trade off between creating hands-on labs versus actual instruction time. Both are important and the individual faculty member has to make a choice of what is best for their individual students. In this research we conducted a survey of cloud-hosted, publicly-available cyber-ranges. This work doesn't explain how to create a cyber-range, instead it classifies each cyber-range based on five different categories including: classroom management, type of labs, number of labs, supplementary reading materials, and license management. Furthermore, we investigate the cost per student based on a variety of factors.