Our Ecosystem

Cyber Range Poulsbo is focused on creating an interactive ecosystem where individuals from both the education and industry sectors of cybersecurity can connect. Students can test their skills, network with professionals, and explore new opportunities. Industry professionals can hone new skills, practice the basics, and contribute to the development of the next generation of cybersecurity engineers.

Initiatives

Our Initiatives represent our work with partners and stakeholders. Discover how we're collaborating to address important challenges and create meaningful solutions.

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    Lab Curriculum Development

    Expanding hands-on learning resources

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Research

Our research features original studies, investigations, and experiments conducted in collaboration with our partner institutions to advance knowledge within cybersecurity. Explore our methodologies, findings, contributions, joint projects, and the broader research community we are a part of. These initiatives are actively carried out by undergraduate cybersecurity students at various higher education institutions across Washington State.

  • Virtual Internet Project

    This project aims to create a realistic, yet isolated, replica of the top 100 websites within the Poulsbo Cyber Range.

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    • Virtual Internet
    • DNS
    • Web Scraping
    • Networks
    2020 - 2024
  • Phishing for Maritime Systems

    This project aims to explore the use of honeypots, honeynets, and tarpits for bolstering the U.S. Navy's cybersecurity, focusing on protecting sensitive maritime data.

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    • Honeypot
    • Tarpit
    • Honeynet
    • US Navy
    2022 - 2022
  • Navy Matryoshka Honeypots

    The Matryoshka Honeypot project expands upon existing honeypot research for the Navy Underwater Warfare Center, focusing on creating asset-based honeypots within a secure lab environment.

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    • Honeypot
    • Honeynet
    • Threat Detection
    • T-Pot
    2022 - 2024


Capstone Projects

Our Capstone projects focus on cybersecurity lab development and the creation of Cyber Range Platform features. These projects are undertaken by undergraduate cybersecurity students at our various partner higher education institutions across Washington state.

  • Navy Secure Software Development

    This project aims to develop a secure CI/CD pipeline for Python applications using open-source tools, designed for the Naval Underwater Warfare Center.

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    • CI/CD
    • Python
    • NUWC-K
    2023 - 2024
  • Intrusion Detection System

    The primary objective of this project is to build a Suricata IDS to protect the Cyber Range.

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    • Suricata
    • IDS
    • Kibana
    • ELK Stack
    2021 - 2021
  • Ticketing System Project

    This project aims to streamline issue reporting and user account management within the Cyber Range by creating a unified web interface.

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    • Flask
    • MantisBT
    • OpenLDAP
    2020 - 2020
  • Cyber Range Exploit Exercise

    This project aims to develop engaging cybersecurity exercises for Western Washington University's Cyber Range.

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    • Exploit
    • Malware
    • CTF
    2020 - 2023
  • Cyber Skills Assessment & Analysis

    Introducing cybersecurity concepts, further focus on specific security principles and practices, assessments to test understanding and retention of information, and analysis of the information retained as well as missed.

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    • Assessment
    • Cyber Skills
    2022
  • Network Exercise Development

    This project aims to develop a series of challenging network-based exercises for Western Washington University's Cyber Range.

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    • Networking
    • Vulnerabilities
    • Protocols
    • ACLs
    2020 - 2021
  • Ransomware Learning Environment

    This project provides two cybersecurity labs exploring different attack scenarios.

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    • Ransomware
    • Botnets
    • Vulnerabilities
    • Malware
    2022 - 2023
  • Cyber Range Monitoring Stack

    This project aims to enhance the Cyber Range core infrastructure by deploying open-source monitoring agents for cloud-native servers.

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    • Infrastructure
    • Open-Source
    • Cloud
    2021 - 2021

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