Metova CyberCENTS: Transforming Cybersecurity Squads through Emulation

The internet is a digital emulation of our real world; the towering cyber attacks mirror the field battles, and cybersecurity engineers resemble the brave soldiers who defend our ‘digital borders’. With every bit of our day-to-day information now online, one security breach could result in devastating consequences. For Bill Dunn, President of Metova CyberCENTS, such ever-increasing “cyber warfare” calls for a “military approach” to train cybersecurity engineers through constant practice and exercise in tandem with advanced technological utilization. “Apart from a steep rise in cyber attacks, the situation has been worsened by the shortage of domain-qualified workforce and enterprises are now increasingly adopting this novel approach and our groundbreaking solutions.” The company, a division of Cabot, Arkansas-based Metova Federal LLC, builds customized cyber simulators and cyber range environments wherein cyber exercises, mission rehearsals, and competitions prime individuals from defense organizations, banks, governments, industries, and universities in the art of modern cyber defense.

Metova CyberCENTS’ simulators expose trainees to various network situations and threats while advancing their technical skills in cyber protection, and mission-critical operations. The simulators are scalable—each simulator is designed according to a customer’s exact requirements—and offer a risk-free, independent simulated network environment that accurately emulates customers’ operational network. The operators can perform aggressive activities in the simulated network to disrupt a network’s integrity, infiltrate dummy networks to gather intelligence, and learn advanced network protection tactics. This not only allows the operators to spot loopholes in their operational network but also helps them learn newer techniques and ideas to identify and combat security threats.

The company offers a family of Hardware-in-the-loop cyber simulators under the name of CENTS^® (Cyber Operations Enhanced Network and Training Simulators) which are operated by the SLAM-R^©—the simulator and range automation engine. The family of solutions also comprises of internet routers, core network protocols, security boundaries, physical-virtual hardware, software, and other complex components that power the precise simulation of a client’s operational network.