Digital twin / cyber lab
Rebuild the environment you need: zones, devices, protocols, and workflows. Use it for pentesting the replica, hardening a design, or rehearsing incident response.
Definition
What is a cyber range?
A cyber range is an environment that recreates, in full or in part, an IT or OT infrastructure so teams can train, develop, test, and validate systems without using the live network as the lab.
IT and OT
The same word. A different risk.
OT is the hardware and software that monitors or drives physical process — PLCs, SCADA, sensors, actuators, and the networks between them.
IT is the digital estate used to process information: applications, directories, office networks, and the tools around them.
On IT, a failed test is usually an outage or a data incident. On OT, a failed test can stop a unit, damage equipment, or create a safety event. That is why OT tests belong on a range, not on the plant.
What a range is used for
Replica first. Then the work that production forbids.
Validation
Prove that an architecture or a control actually stops a path — before that design is commissioned. Change one thing. Run the same scenario again.
Demonstration
Show decision-makers, in a concrete setting, what a cyber incident does to process — without asking them to imagine it on a slide.
Investigation
Bring logs into the replica, reconstruct the sequence, and test the fix against the same path.
Hybrid extension
When the replica is not enough, connect real equipment and keep the rest virtual. That is the Simetra hybrid model.
Assessment on the range
Use the environment for security assessments and penetration testing that cannot be completed on a live industrial system.
What it is not
A range is an environment. Not every security product.
Simetra is not a vulnerability scanner, a GRC platform, a production SOC, or a disaster-recovery tool. Those jobs exist. They are not this product.
See the hybrid model Platform