CyberRange: an automated AWS security lab

A security experiment is easier to examine when the environment can be built again. Ad hoc provisioning and undocumented dependencies make setup and investigation harder to repeat.

I developed the environment integration, AWS provisioning workflows, Make entry points, configuration, checks, and documentation. The project incorporates established community tools and an upstream Terraform foundation, with credit retained for those components.

Terraform describes lab assets and network configuration; Make provides common build and inspection entry points. Environment checks and a setup guide make assumptions visible to another practitioner.

Kali, CommandoVM, and DetectionLab contribute existing offensive and defensive tooling. Integrating them into a research environment is distinct from authoring the underlying tools.

Public source and the setup guide expose provisioning configuration and environment checks. The project was presented at Black Hat Europe Arsenal and BSides London in 2019.

This website revision reviewed the historical evidence; it did not provision AWS resources or validate the original images against current dependencies.

A public, inspectable starting point for building security labs, alongside presentations explaining its architecture and research use.

Historical image-sharing requirements and period-specific dependencies affect reproducibility today. Current setup success, managed operation, and production suitability are not claimed.