Beyond network simulators: Fostering novel distributed applications and protocols through extendible design

Cyber ranges and security testbeds: Scenarios, functions, tools and architecture

“…Works in [118,4] have orchestration modules that combine multiple components to execute a scenario. Finally, [42,4,56,61,10,39,34,90,98,21] have components that are used to generate different events within the scenario execution to make the scenario more dynamic and realistic. These events can be the launch of automatic attacks, like in [34,39,21], or can be represent traffic generation, like in [90,61].…”

“…4. In simulation environment for validating protocols for distributed applications, researchers in [10] employed similar quantitative evaluation methods, which is also based upon time requirements.…”

“…In term of hardware based environments, works in[73,65,69,7,88,90,5,39,42] use actual hardware cyber security scenario execution, these scenarios are mostly relate to IoT, SCADA and critical infrastructure. Works in[44,115,10,56,66,67,106,8] use different simulation and modeling techniques for cyber security scenario execution. Details of different event generation tools, like traffic and user behavior, are presented in section 4.4.6 and 4.4.7.Figure8indicates the type of the run time environment that are used in cyber ranges and security testbeds in the last 15 years.…”