SimSpace, a leading provider of realistic cyber range environments, has launched an Early Access Program for its upgraded Cyber Range Platform, designed to unify training and testing for elite cybersecurity teams. The move addresses a critical gap in conventional cyber readiness programs, which often silo training and testing, leaving organizations unable to validate operational performance under real-world pressure—a problem SimSpace calls the Train / Test Gap.
With AI-driven threats evolving in real time, traditional training-only environments are no longer sufficient. SimSpace’s platform now allows organizations to train, test, and validate people, processes, tools, and AI simultaneously, ensuring measurable readiness across complex, production-like conditions including cloud infrastructure, hardware, and adaptive AI.
Bridging Training and Testing in Realistic Environments
Clint Sand, Chief Product and Engineering Officer at SimSpace, highlighted the urgency: “Autonomous AI attacks are pushing the asymmetry between offense and defense to a breaking point. Organizations need a full lifecycle approach—training, testing, and validating in realistic conditions before capabilities are trusted in the real world.”
The platform’s key upgrades include:
- Intelligent Self-Service Range Design – AI-assisted range modeling, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and resource-aware automation let teams deploy complex environments in minutes.
- Intuitive Range Management – Range Workbench offers drag-and-drop design, a human-readable YAML editor, and versioning to streamline scenario creation and automated attack simulations.
- Comprehensive Security Benchmarking – Tool Tester validates security tools and configurations in hyper-realistic environments, with scoring analytics for detection engineering and scenario planning.
- Improved Live-Fire Exercises – Team Trainer simplifies planning and executing mission-driven exercises while reducing configuration overhead.
- Enterprise and Partner Ecosystem Support – API-first design enables secure integration, automation, and advanced workflows at scale.
By converging training and testing, SimSpace enables organizations to evaluate not just human operators but also AI systems and full-stack defenses, creating a measurable and repeatable standard for cyber readiness.
“Realism determines resilience, and training/testing convergence defines the organizations that will stay ahead,” Sand said. “Early Access is the first step toward a new standard in cybersecurity—where what gets trained is proven, and what gets tested is trusted.”
Power Tomorrow’s Intelligence — Build It with TechEdgeAI
