RangeForce joins Cyberbit to deliver cybersecurity team readiness at scale

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Since its founding, RangeForce’s mission has been to democratize the cyber range. Our founders' experience with NATO exercises inspired them to build a cloud-based cyber range for the masses. Gradually, we got there; breaking technical, cost and UX barriers to build a platform able to quickly spin-up entire breached environments. Any blue team can now run a team exercise in a realistic environment, using real tools, at a sensible cost.   

Today we are excited to announce RangeForce’s acquisition by Cyberbit, taking another giant step on this journey. 

As the number of RangeForce customers taking on team exercises in our platform sees exponential growth, it’s clear that the market for skills platforms has gone from focusing on individuals to teams. While fixing solo skills gaps is vital, organizations increasingly value exercising as a team, interlocking technical abilities with teamwork and incident process execution. This is how defensive teams transition from purely technical upskilling to exercising and measuring the readiness of blue teams.  

We believe this path to maturity should be accessible to Security Operations Centers (SOCs) of all sizes, sectors and structures. It should also be offered with minimal impact on already overworked and budget constrained blue teams. 

The best way to meet this growing demand? Together. More resources and expertise equal more opportunity. I’m excited for this combination of two organizations passionate about cybersecurity defender readiness.As Brian Pierce, CEO of Cyberbit, says:  

“We will seek to jointly set a new standard for cyber readiness in a market demanding more than siloed technical skills labs. This means putting attack simulations with real tools, threats, environments, and adversary tactics, techniques and procedures in the hands of more organizations.”

The benefits to our customers?

Bringing together two Forrester recognized platforms that now upskill every team member from elite government threat hunters to small, fast maturing SOCs brings the potential for significant future benefits. As you might expect, this early into the integration the specifics are still being finalized, but we believe the benefits for customers will be substantial:

  1. Better Team Experiences: Building a live fire compromised environment in its entirety is hard. IP addresses rotate, permissions change, application traffic flows, lateral movement happens and so much more. When customers can access our combined catalogue, SOC teams will get to build readiness on a far larger variety of attack narratives, adversarial tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and more. 

  2. More Solo Skills Labs: Technical skills labs are the other side of the readiness coin. Without them, solo skills gaps remain. With cybersecurity defense requiring granular skills developed at breakneck pace, making sure there is a requisite number and variety of labs, so they map to risk, is key. By uniting two specialist blue team skills platforms, we will be giving SOC teams access to an unrivalled library of upskilling content.  

  3. Platform Evolution: In any acquisition, the two companies get to pick and combine the best technology. With two industry leading platforms, we have tough decisions to make! For customers we expect more tools in the range, much easier exercising, better skills mapping for executive teams, a wider choice of data center locations and much more.

  4. AI Innovation: Our groundbreaking achievements in AI thrive with access to good people. Letting a new team loose on our platform, and vice versa, will amplify this. Cyberbit focuses on ‘hyper realism’ in attack simulations and I am excited to see how we develop this approach together. The two organizations together will continue leveraging AI for content creation, skills mapping, learner mentoring and more to ensure cybersecurity defense teams are prepared to deal with cybersecurity incidents. 

  5. Global Footprint: Bringing together two leading companies in this space creates an international entity with significant operational firepower. Now, with a truly global footprint, we can access the best talent and bring readiness to SOC and IR teams around the world.  
This is just an overview of the outcomes we believe the acquisition will bring to our customers. For the time being, we continue to focus on delivering the same close and consistent service we always have. 

However, as we bring these two companies closer together, more opportunities to forge the readiness of defensive teams will emerge.

Security operations teams, incident response teams and chief information security officers are clamoring for more effective teams and pre-emptive approaches to improve cybersecurity. It's a big moment for RangeForce and Cyberbit, as well as cloud-based cyber ranges. Watch this space, exciting times ahead.

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