Peraton Labs supported the Nebraska Army National Guard (NEARNG) in its second Cyber Tatanka exercise, training over 150 cyber professionals, including civilian and U.S. and international military, on defensive cyber operations, cyber weapon hunting, and containment of malware. Cyber Tatanka 2023 was built upon and expanded the successful Cyber Tatanka exercise hosted last year by the NEARNG and also supported by Peraton Labs.
Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure pose significant threats to the economy, civil order, and national security. For Cyber Tatanka, NEARNG brought together cyber professionals from the National Guard, the electric utility, banking, and other industries, and foreign military from Ukraine and the Czech Republic. Participants trained jointly in teams to respond to mock cyberattacks, coordinate defensive strategies, shorten response times, and improve cyber skills.
“We were honored to provide the training platform and support services for Cyber Tatanka for the second consecutive year,” said Chris Valentino, acting president, Peraton Labs. “Our CyberVAN™ platform, in combination with our highly-experienced staff, offers an agile, affordable, end-to-end environment for planning and conducting cyber training exercises. We look forward to continuing to meet the needs of the National Guard and other military and civilian organizations partners for cost-effective, high-value cyber training.”
Using its state-of-the art CyberVAN platform, Peraton Labs instantiated a flexible, private cloud-based virtual threat environment (VTE), which supports a wide variety of diverse cyber threat scenarios and scales to hundreds of concurrent users. Peraton Labs delivered support services to configure, plan, and develop test scenarios, and to conduct the multi-day exercise, including start-of-day situational awareness briefings and after action reviews. Peraton Labs provided experienced, expert staff to serve as attacking Red Team members and as Purple Team members, who assist participants as needed in during exercises and deliver detailed and tailored feedback on strategy, techniques, successes, and recommendations for improvement.
Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure pose significant threats to the economy, civil order, and national security. For Cyber Tatanka, NEARNG brought together cyber professionals from the National Guard, the electric utility, banking, and other industries, and foreign military from Ukraine and the Czech Republic. Participants trained jointly in teams to respond to mock cyberattacks, coordinate defensive strategies, shorten response times, and improve cyber skills.
“We were honored to provide the training platform and support services for Cyber Tatanka for the second consecutive year,” said Chris Valentino, acting president, Peraton Labs. “Our CyberVAN™ platform, in combination with our highly-experienced staff, offers an agile, affordable, end-to-end environment for planning and conducting cyber training exercises. We look forward to continuing to meet the needs of the National Guard and other military and civilian organizations partners for cost-effective, high-value cyber training.”
Using its state-of-the art CyberVAN platform, Peraton Labs instantiated a flexible, private cloud-based virtual threat environment (VTE), which supports a wide variety of diverse cyber threat scenarios and scales to hundreds of concurrent users. Peraton Labs delivered support services to configure, plan, and develop test scenarios, and to conduct the multi-day exercise, including start-of-day situational awareness briefings and after action reviews. Peraton Labs provided experienced, expert staff to serve as attacking Red Team members and as Purple Team members, who assist participants as needed in during exercises and deliver detailed and tailored feedback on strategy, techniques, successes, and recommendations for improvement.
