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The domain of cyber security has gained an increased importance in the industry that is naturally reflected in the universities curricula that have included security courses and dedicated programs in their offer. The scope of this paper is to describe the requirements of a cybersecurity virtual platform, the basic mandatory tools to be included and the methods for building a flexible and extensible cyber security laboratory, taking benefit of industry support, academic programs and open source implementations.
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We would like to show our gratitude to Atos Romania for their support in proving the hardware platform as sponsorship and integration efforts, Cisco Romania for providing demo version of networking software and other partners that have granted resources via academic programs.
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Bălan, T., Robu, D., Sandu, F., Bălan, A. (2021). Building a Virtualized Cybersecurity Lab. In: Auer, M.E., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) Internet of Things, Infrastructures and Mobile Applications. IMCL 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1192. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49932-7_95
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