Texas Cyber Range

Our Mission

The mission of the Texas Cyber Range is to empower Texas A&M's faculty and students with cutting-edge virtualization services within a robustly secured environment. We strive to equip our students with practical cybersecurity experience, designed to bridge the gap between academic study and industry needs. Through our innovative training platform, we aspire to cultivate the next generation of cybersecurity professionals, ready to protect digital frontiers and enhance the state's and nation's resilience against cyber threats.

The Texas Cyber Range is an AWS-like model where students and faculty can use our infrastructure and virtualization technologies such as XPC-NG powered by Xen Orchestra to develop various cybersecurity skills and conduct research. Our enterprise-level sandbox allows for small and large workloads to be processed quickly and efficiently to provide the best experience.

Use Cases

Research: The Texas Cyber Range supports various research endeavors including infrastructure to perform high-level malware analysis
Classes: The Texas Cyber Range hosts a myriad of classes where faculty and students host labs and homework for students to learn vital cybersecurity and I.T. skills.
Personal VMs: The Texas Cyber Range aims to brings virtual machines to those in Texas A&M University. The benefits of this are that students will be able to access an always-on virtual machine from anywhere with internet access.
Additional Services: If you require some form of infrastructure not listed above for a project, research, etc. Contact us and we can provide you with the resources required.