Introduction to the Cyber Ranges

With the rising cybercrimes, a well-trained cybersecurity workforce in an organization has become a necessity. This book aims to provide substantial theoretical knowhow on cyber ranges, their architectural design, along with a case study of existing cyber ranges in leading urban sectors like military, academic and commercial.

Prof Dr Bishwajeet Pandey has completed his PhD in CSE from Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy under guidance of Prof Paolo Prinetto, Politecnico Di Torino (World Ranking 13 in Electrical Engineering). He has worked as an Asst. Professor in Department of Research at Chitkara University, Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at South Asian University and Lecturers in Indira Gandhi National Open University. He has completed Master of Technology (IIIT Gwalior) in CSE with Specialization in VLSI, Master of Computer Application, R&D Pro-ject in CDAC-Noida. He has authored and coauthored 137 papers available on his Scopus Profile (https: //www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57203239026). He has 1400+ Citation according to his Google Scholar Profile(https: //scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=UZ_8yAMAAAAJ&hl=en). He has an experience of teaching of Innovation and Startup, Computer Network, Digital Logic, Logic Synthesis, System Verilog. His area of research interest is Green Computing, High Performance Computing, Cyber Physical System, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cyber Security. He is in board of director of many startups of his Students e.g. Gyancity Research Consultancy Pvt Ltd.

Dr Engr Shabeer Ahmad received the received his B.Eng. degree in ICT and Electronics engineering and M.Sc. degree (M.S) in Information & Control engineering (with summa cum laude) both from the University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila Italy. According to the Italian newspapers, he was the first foreigner (Asian) to graduate with a gold medal from an Italian university. In 2016, he became visiting research assistant in Shibaura Institute of Technology Tokyo and subsequently, he got a permanent position as a control-systems Engineer in one of the best Japanese Multinational TOSHIBA CORPORATION Tokyo, Japan before joining one of the top Italian research institutes, Gran-Sasso Science Institute (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) L’Aquila Italy- to continue his study of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in field of Cyber-Security and control systems. In 2018, he got the Young Scientist Award at the 4th International Conference on Green Computing and Engineering Technologies, August 2018 at Aalborg University, Denmark. His main areas of research interest are Linear and Nonlinear control systems, Cyber-security for the critical infrastructures, Hybrid Cyber-Ranges, Emulation of the Critical infrastructures with special emphasis on Water-supply System.