[LINK] Cyber Range for Teaching Cyber-Warfare in Canberra

Tom Worthington Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au
Wed Mar 13 18:07:27 AEDT 2013


Greetings from the CSIRO Discovery Centre in Canberra, where Rich
Richmond from Northrop Grumman is speaking on "USA view on Cloud
computing technologies - A Private Cloud for Environment Testing". Rich
has been building a cloud service for UNSW Canberra.

Rich described the use of a "Cyber Range" which is a network test
environment. There is a "Michigan Cyber Range" for teaching
cuber-security: http://www.merit.edu/cyberrange/

DARPA has a "National Cyber Range Project" to build a simulation of the
Internet for cyber war games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cyber_Range

While not explicitly stated, it would appear the Canberra facility is
for teaching cyber-warfare at the Australian Defence Force Academy
(ADFA), which is the military partner of UNSW Canberra. This is made
more explicit in the media release from Northrop Grumman (2012): "....
build a cyber test range for the University of New South Wales (UNSW),
Canberra campus at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) ...
training and educating the future leaders of the Royal Australian Navy,
Army and Air Force... including the burgeoning area of cyber research."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/17/idUS206468+17-Oct-2012+PRN20121017


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