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Cyber virtual assured network (CyberVAN™)​

High-fidelity network environment for cyber experimentation, operational planning, validation and training

​To counter evolving cyber threats, a realistic, high-fidelity cyber environment is required to support efficient and accurate evaluation and validation of cybersecurity tools. Isolated and contained environments are needed for operational planning and what-if scenario experimentation. In addition, cyber IT specialists need high-fidelity, reproducible cyber environments for training. Such environments must be easy to define and specify, manage and maintain, and deploy and modify.  

CyberVAN provides the highest possible fidelity representation of a network next to actually deploying the real network. It is scalable and easily handles tens of thousands of diverse cyber elements, including hosts, routers, switches, firewalls, infrastructure and ad hoc Wi-Fi, LTE / 5G cellular, and satellite communications. It is also easy to use with sophisticated capabilities for managing the design, deployment and archiving of cyber scenarios for experimentation, operational planning, validation and training.   ​​
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How it works

To provide a realistic, high-fidelity environment, CyberVAN represents the network in a discrete event network simulator and enables hosts—represented by virtual machines (VMs)—to communicate over this simulated network. It delivers sophisticated capabilities for cyber experimentation in tactical as well as strategic environments by enabling arbitrary applications—tactical as well as enterprise applications—running on QEMU-KVM VMs to communicate transparently via a simulated network implemented in ns-3 or EMANE.

CyberVAN’s innovative, transparent forwarding technology enables IP traffic generated by services running on VMs to be sent via a simulated network to its destination VM. In order to accommodate large network simulations that may run slower than real time, CyberVAN incorporates our patented TimeSync technology that synchronizes the notion of time across VMs and the simulator, thereby enabling experiments to run slower than real time.

To manage the design, deployment and archiving of cyber scenarios, users access CyberVAN via a web portal and use a scenario design graphical user interface (GUI) to design their network. CyberVAN automatically allocates the required hardware resources for the scenario.
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Features

  • High-fidelity network effects: the capacity to model interference, mobility, propagation effects and diverse waveforms enables the delivery of high-fidelity simulation of all network effects including latencies, link capacities and routing protocols
  • Cyber management framework: the scenario management GUI provides an environment for accessing and managing the elements of a scenario including logging in to the VMs in the scenario, running various analytics tools on these VMs, saving the results of experiments and pausing and restarting experiments
  • Cyber effects library: a substantial, growing library of cyber effects including tools for assessing vulnerabilities, scanning tools and malware libraries for cyber testing. The cyber effects library is also able to deploy VMs running operating systems with specific vulnerabilities
  • Realistic user traffic: includes realistic traffic generated by users on the network—essential for a realistic cyber environment. CyberVAN avoids generating synthetic traffic that can easily be spotted by traffic analysis tools by simulating real users driving applications on end hosts which in turn generates realistic network traffic
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Advantages

  • Scalable modeling plus TimeSync capability enables high-fidelity simulations of large infrastructure that run slower than real-time
  • Handles highly diverse computing environments, with multiple versions of different operating systems and services, each with their own known and unknown vulnerabilities, organized in different topologies, with different levels of access
  • Accurately supports wireless and tactical environments with propagation, interference and waveform models
  • Includes large cyber effects library plus an easy to use scenario manager that makes it easy to define, manage, run and analyze cyber experiments
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  • Cybersecurity research: innovations to protect mission-critical networks, services, systems and infrastructure 

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