CASE STUDY

Establishing an academic cyber practical studies center using CyberShield TnS

The University The university is a major university in a European

country, and holds a dedicated cyber technology

center which includes training and qualification

courses in cyber security both for internal courses

and external courses for the general public.

The university has a rich curriculum for cyber

professions, dedicated for a wide range of audiences

- including academic students, practical engineers,

high-schools students and graduates, studies

towards a diploma, and external studies.

The university is highly engaged with cyber

research and holds a large team of researchers.

The ChallengeCombining practical tools and technology to qualify

students for confronting cyber security challenges

and to conduct academic cyber research.

The university was looking for a way to better

qualify its students as part of its cyber security

studies, so that they gain know-how and develop

the unique expertise required to confront real world

cyber threats and challenges when they encounter

them in the academia and in the industry.

The university understood that in order to allow the

students to leap forward with their understanding

and capabilities in the cyber domain, it must

conduct practical cyber security training, involving

simulation of real world environments and cyber

threats, and implement different scenarios that will

allow the students to become competent, updated

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Sector

High education

The Challenge

Provide hands-on practice of cyber security and enrich the university’s Computer Science curriculum with advanced and practical tools and methodologies.

The Solution

CyberShield TnS

Why CYBERBIT

A stand-alone environment with proven track record for training cyber security personnel, simulating full IT and SCADA environments, providing out-of-the-box training sessions and threat scenarios that can be carried out independently by the university staff, and adjusted to course and curriculum needs, alongside supporting simulation for Academic Research.

The Results

The university now holds a dedicated cyber practical studies facility that allows it to carry out independent courses, practices , qualifications and research, for both internal and external courses, making it the hub of cyber security studies in its country.

and skilled. The university was looking for a training

and simulation product that will allow it to be fully

independent in conducting hands-on cyber security

training, will be easy to operate and maintain, and

will provide it with out-of-the-box training and

simulation which includes training threat scenarios,

and all information required to conduct the training

session while supporting academic research on the

simulated environment.

The university looked for a solution that allowed

trainee evaluation and follow up, and will allow

it to structure training programs and curriculums

that are based on actual trainee skills evaluation.

The SolutionCyberShield TnS

After checking a couple of the leading solutions

in the field of cyber training, the university chose

CyberShield TnS.

CyberShield TnS is a training and simulation

platform, combining IT and SCADA security training

in a stand-alone environment together with teaching

and research methodologies and tools.

CyberShield TnS provides live hands-on training,

using a variety of threat scenarios over modifiable

IT and SCADA networks, supporting both individual

and group training. The platform includes advanced

threat scenarios, constantly updated and enriched

by a dedicated threat research team, which

analyzes and constructs real-world complex threat

scenarios to be trained over.

CyberShield TnS’s simulated networks can be

used also for academic research purposes allowing

research teams to leverage simulation capabilities

for their research needs examining real world

threats on real world IT and SCADA environments.

TnS’s Training Management System facilitates

the setup, execution and debriefing of the training

session and controls normal traffic flow, threat

injection into the training network, full view of

trainee activity (screen recording), scoring of

trainees, and trainee evaluation.

Every training session is recorded and can be replayed

and investigated together with the trainees, while

their evaluation is documented for further reference

and for the construction of a full and dedicated

training program, considering their previous skill

evaluation and former training sessions.

CyberShield TnS comes with detailed explanations

and resolutions of every threat scenario, and is

easily operated independently by the university due

to its thorough briefings easy to use application.

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The ResultsThe university now operates a cyber practical studies

center, based on CyberShield TnS, which allows it

to provide hands-on practice and qualification on

both IT and SCADA networks, which combine with

its curriculum and theoretical courses and support

academic research. CyberShield TnS provides the

university with flexibility in structuring courses and

their related training sessions, and allows them to

structure and update programs based on actual

trainee evaluation.

The ease of operation and adjustment, with out-

of-the-box training capabilities, gives the university

the independence it required and allows it to keep

updating its courses, syllabuses, and cyber security

programs according to market trends and needs.

The university’s students are now more

competent, skilled, knowledgeable and updated

when confronting cyber security threats, and are

more efficient in minimizing exposure time. The

university’s academic team can use the simulation

environment to conduct practical cyber research.

“providing our students the ability to actually

experience and practice what cyber security

threats are is a tremendous benefit – their

understanding of how it works in real life is

absolutely . our students’ experience is well

valued in the market, and we see them quickly

conquering prestigious cyber security positions in

the leading organizations. Of-course this has also

made our cyber security program more appealing,

attractive and appreciated and has been growing

constantly since we started using CyberShield

TnS for hands-on training”.

The ease of operation and adjustment, with out-of-the-box training capabilities, gives the university the independence it required and allows it to keep updating its courses, syllabuses, and cyber security programs according to market trends and needs.