Programmatic Description Language for Cyber Range Topology Creation

Andrea Dalla Costa; Jarkko Kuusijarvi

doi:10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00048

Programmatic Description Language for Cyber Range Topology Creation

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Abstract

Cyber Ranges are becoming a fundamental part of cybersecurity training and preparations, since they allow testing different scenarios in a safe, isolated and repro-ducible environment. We can expect to see cyber ranges used even more in cybersecurity trainings and testing of various system deployments, which also means increasing amount of scenarios to be developed. It is beneficial to make the scenario development/generation easier and faster for the human operators and automated generation alike to support the different use cases requirements. This paper analyses the currently available open-source and/or research community solutions for defining topologies for cyber ranges and presents the enhanced description language developed. The description language aims to sim-plify the scenario creation process for large networks with features that support quick and easy specification of the initial topology. This paper describes the enhanced features that enable the language to describe topologies in a compact form and presents initial test topology creation in lab settings deployed in OpenStack environment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Euro S and PW 2022
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	403-412
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-66549-560-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00048
Publication status	Published - 2022
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Euro S and PW 2022 - Genoa, Italy Duration: 6 Jun 2022 → 10 Jun 2022

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Conference	7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Euro S and PW 2022
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Genoa
Period	6/06/22 → 10/06/22

Keywords

cyber ranges
cybersecurity
deployment
description language
sce-narios
topologies

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Costa, AD & Kuusijarvi, J 2022, Programmatic Description Language for Cyber Range Topology Creation. in Proceedings - 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Euro S and PW 2022. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 403-412, 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Euro S and PW 2022, Genoa, Italy, 6/06/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00048

Programmatic Description Language for Cyber Range Topology Creation. / Costa, Andrea Dalla; Kuusijarvi, Jarkko.
Proceedings - 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Euro S and PW 2022. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2022. p. 403-412.

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