Cyber Ranges
ATA resells and delivers all four leading cyber range platforms — paired with live, practitioner-led instruction and mentoring. Ranges are live environments where we run cyber exercises, drills, events and skill development mapped to your mission roles, with course content modules built into every platform.
Exercises, drills, events & skill development
Live instruction & mentoring
ATA leverages each platform with practitioner instructors and range masters — enhancing the asynchronous labs and course content modules with live instruction and live mentoring.
Compete against ATA red & blue teams
We coordinate and run the events — and your teams can face off against ATA's own red team and blue team in live-fire exercises.
Train, then prove it
We use the ranges to teach and train, then execute a follow-on event that proofs skill proficiency under pressure.
Four platforms, compared
Each platform earns its place. Use the matrix to match capabilities to your mission, then dive into the individual strengths below.
| Range capability | CYBER RANGES | Hack The Box | OffSec | SANS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-paced hands-on labs & scenarios | Core | Core | Core | Strong |
| Offensive (red team) scenarios | Strong | Core | Core | Strong |
| Defensive (blue team) scenarios | Strong | Strong | Strong | Core |
| Team live-fire (red vs blue) | Core | Available | Strong | Strong |
| Custom / dedicated range building | Core | Strong | Strong | Available |
| Cloud environment simulation | Core | Core | Available | Available |
| Skills scoring & gap analytics | Strong | Core | Strong | Strong |
| Multiplayer & scalable deployment | Core | Strong | Strong | Strong |
Individual strengths & use cases
CYBER RANGES
Purpose-built simulation range platformA dedicated, military-grade platform for designing, delivering and managing cyber range exercises end to end. Teams train on high-fidelity replicas of real systems and networks from a large scenario library, and operators can author their own scenarios and orchestrate automated, multi-user Red vs. Blue events to test operational readiness. Built-in profiling pinpoints individual and team skills gaps and tracks capability over time. Its standout strength is deployment flexibility.
Key range components
- Scenario library + custom authoring
- Automated Red vs. Blue events
- Sandbox for product/process testing
- MITRE ATT&CK Defender labs
- Skills-gap profiling & capability tracking
- Deploy as SaaS, private cloud, fully on-prem (data sovereignty) or portable field kit
Hack The Box
Dedicated Labs, Professional Labs & Cloud LabsHTB's enterprise range capability centers on three building blocks. Dedicated Labs are private, isolated environments of individual virtual machines that teams populate from an ever-expanding pool updated weekly — ideal for self-paced practice and assessment. Professional Labs are full virtualized networks that mimic real corporate infrastructure, including mature, fully-patched Active Directory and advanced red-team scenarios, redeployable on demand. Cloud Labs (BlackSky) extend training into real AWS, GCP and Azure environments for cloud pentesting and hardening — with reporting, benchmarking and gap analysis layered on, scaling from ten concurrent users upward.
Key range components
- Dedicated Labs (private VM pools)
- Professional Labs (enterprise / Active Directory networks)
- BlackSky Cloud Labs (AWS / GCP / Azure)
- Weekly-updated content
- Team benchmarking & reporting
- CPE credits on Pro Lab completion
OffSec
Proving Grounds & Learn Enterprise (OffSec Cyber Range)OffSec's range capability comes in two layers. Proving Grounds is a network of standalone, private vulnerable machines for self-paced offensive practice — PG Play (community-built Linux targets) and PG Practice (OffSec-built Windows/Linux machines plus retired exam labs, available 24/7 with new content monthly). For teams, Learn Enterprise unlocks the OffSec Cyber Range: an Offensive range (attack chains, including PEN-200 challenge labs), a Defensive range (DFIR, incident handling and threat hunting across Active Directory, web, phishing, supply-chain and CVE scenarios) and the Versus live-fire capability for Red vs. Blue face-offs — all with a real-time analytics dashboard.
Key range components
- Proving Grounds (Play + Practice)
- OffSec Cyber Range: Offensive + Defensive + Versus live-fire
- Simulated enterprise / Active Directory networks
- Manager analytics & progress reporting
- Dedicated ranges shaped to your environment
SANS
NetWars & Skills QuestSANS delivers hands-on range training through two complementary capabilities. NetWars is a suite of six ranges — Core, Cyber Defense, DFIR, GRID, ICS and Healthcare — built around real-world, story-driven challenges spanning offensive and defensive skills, most often run as team-based tournaments with a scorecard that benchmarks individual skill levels and supports talent identification. Skills Quest by NetWars brings the same style of regularly updated exercises into a self-paced cyber range with roughly six months of on-demand access, designed for continuous practice between events. Both contribute CPE credits.
Key range components
- NetWars ranges: Core, Cyber Defense, DFIR, GRID, ICS, Healthcare
- Team tournament format with skills scorecard
- Skills Quest self-paced cyber range (~6 months on-demand)
- CPE credits
One partner for every platform
One partner for every platform — plus live, practitioner-led instruction, mentoring and accountability layered on top, so range time translates into measurable readiness. Our blended delivery supports DoW Directive 8140 and the NIST/NICE Framework, with a proven track record across federal, DoW and enterprise clients.
Ready to put your team on the range?
Tell us the mission — we'll match the platform, build the scenario and run the event.