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CHECK Cyber Range

Cybersecurity Hands-on Education, Certification, and Knowledge. Our platform for hands-on training, advanced exercises, and cybersecurity skills certification.

CHECK was born from university research and field experience to address a concrete challenge: training cybersecurity professionals through hands-on practice. The platform offers virtual environments that replicate real infrastructures, allowing users to safely practice attack and defense scenarios.

CHECK: Cyber Range Platform Architecture

Realistic Virtual Environments

We replicate complete IT and OT infrastructures: enterprise networks, SCADA systems, industrial plants. Each scenario is designed to be indistinguishable from a real production environment.

Features:

  • Enterprise networks with Active Directory, servers and workstations
  • Hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, on-premise)
  • Industrial control systems (PLC, HMI, SCADA)
  • Simulated critical infrastructures
  • Complete isolation from production environment

Digital Twin Integration

We create faithful digital replicas of your real infrastructures. The Digital Twin allows you to test attack scenarios on the virtual copy without risks to production systems.

Benefits:

  • Faithful replica of your specific infrastructure
  • Vulnerability testing without production impact
  • Patch and update validation pre-deployment
  • Training contextualized to your environment
  • Incident simulation for response planning

From research to industry:

The Digital Twin approach comes from research in the ARTIC project within SERICS, funded by the Italian NRRP, and represents the state of the art in infrastructure simulation for cybersecurity.

Advanced Orchestration

The orchestration system automatically manages the scenario lifecycle: provisioning, configuration, execution and teardown. Scalability and reproducibility guaranteed.

Capabilities:

  • Automatic deployment of complex scenarios
  • Multi-tenant management for user groups
  • Snapshot and rollback for exercise repetition
  • API for integration with external systems
  • Containerization and microservices for scalability

Automated Assessment

Scoring system that evaluates participant actions in real-time. Objective metrics to measure acquired skills and progress in the training path.

What we measure:

  • Scenario objective completion
  • Resolution time and efficiency
  • Techniques used and methodological approach
  • Red Team and Blue Team skills
  • Detailed reports for certification

Enterprise IT Scenarios

Exercises on traditional enterprise networks: penetration testing, incident response, threat hunting. From initial compromise to persistence, through detection and response.

Exercise types:

  • Active Directory network compromise
  • Web application attacks (OWASP Top 10)
  • Lateral movement and privilege escalation
  • Incident response and forensics
  • Threat hunting with SIEM and EDR

OT/ICS Scenarios

Specific simulations for industrial environments: SCADA system attacks, PLC manipulation, control network compromise. Training for those protecting critical infrastructures.

Areas covered:

  • Industrial protocol attacks (Modbus, S7, OPC)
  • SCADA and DCS system compromise
  • Simulated physical process manipulation
  • OT network segmentation and monitoring
  • Incident response in industrial environments

Field experience:

Our research on HoneyICS and physics-aware attacks has allowed us to develop extremely realistic OT scenarios, based on real threats observed in the industrial sector.

Use Cases

CHECK adapts to different training and operational needs

Corporate Training

Hands-on training for IT and security teams. Customized scenarios based on your infrastructure and the specific threats in your industry.

Skills Certification

Objective assessment of security skills through practical exercises. Detailed reports to document acquired competencies.

Red vs Blue Exercises

Competitions between attack and defense teams to test detection and response capabilities in realistic and controlled scenarios.

Want to try the CHECK platform?

Contact us for a demo or to discuss your organization's training needs. We can create customized scenarios for your industry.

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