Cyber Range & Skills Platform

Arena — Your Own
Cyber Range

A self-hosted range that spins up real containers, virtual machines and full networks on demand — so people learn, prove and defend against threats in a place where breaking things is the point. Runs on your infrastructure: cloud, on-premises or fully air-gapped.

On-Prem DeploymentAir-Gap CapableOutpost Browser LabsInstructor PortalsExam ProctoringIntegrated LMS + CTF

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1000+

Users

Onboarded in 2 months

500+

Wargames

Community + team

10+

Courses

Beginner to advanced

10+

Competitions

Organized to date

The Range

Real Infrastructure, On Demand

Instead of slides and quizzes, Arena gives every learner a live environment — a container, a single VM, or a whole multi-host network — provisioned in seconds and torn down when the session ends. Every lab becomes a repeatable, isolated, measurable exercise.

Bring Your Own Images

Boot from a .qcow2 or an ISO directly; vmdk and vmx also work with a few conversion quirks. If it runs as a VM, it runs in Arena — including any SIEM, EDR agent or production stack you need in the loop.

Container to Full Network

Single-container challenges, single VMs, or routed multi-host networks with switches, routers and segmented subnets — described once and cloned per user.

Isolated & Repeatable

Every deployment is sandboxed. Reset, retry and grade without any risk to production systems or to other learners sharing the range.

Measured Outcomes

Auto-scored flags, submitter binaries and questionnaires, live activity logs, VNC and serial consoles, and session recordings turn practice into evidence of skill.

Outpost

The Attack Machine
in the Browser

The hardest part of teaching offensive security is giving every learner a safe, identical, powerful machine. Outpost makes it a non-issue: a per-user VM orchestrated on your own Proxmox/Nomad infrastructure and streamed to the browser over a no-install remote desktop, carrying the full offensive toolkit.

Zero setup — nothing to configure on student or employee laptops
Isolated and disposable, reset between sessions
Full-screen or half-screen "attack box" mode, auto-scaled to the display
Time-boxed with live countdown and controlled extensions
Rate-limited and fully audited per user
A locked-down exam variant for assessments

<60s

To a Live Attack Machine

In the browser

Student Installs

Any device, any lab

300+

Concurrent Students

Per lab class*

100%

Exams Recorded

And auto-graded

*Illustrative targets for a standard campus deployment; scales with provisioned hardware.

How Teams Use It

One Range, Many Missions

SOC / Blue Team

Spin up any SIEM as a lab instance, run scripted attacks against attached targets, and confirm end to end that your detection rules actually fire. Tune, replay and prove coverage before it matters in production.

Offensive / Red Team

Build target hosts with real EDR and XDR agents installed, then run your tooling against them to measure success rate, detection and evasion — with a clean environment every single run.

AppSec / DevSecOps

Clone an entire production web application into an isolated sandbox and test it thoroughly — destructive scans included — without endangering the live deployment. Full logs stream back in real time.

DFIR / Threat Hunting

Detonate malware in a throwaway sandbox, practice memory and disk forensics on seeded images, rehearse incident response on live infrastructure, or run purple team drills.

Proctored Examinations

Practical, auto-graded exams on live infrastructure. Each candidate gets an isolated instance with unique flags; instructors record and even live-stream every Outpost session, so cheating becomes visible and provable.

Hiring Assessments

Put candidates through a realistic hands-on scenario before an offer is made: isolated per candidate, auto-scored, repeatable, with full session replay for the hiring panel.

For Education

Built to Close the Industry–Academia Gap

Cybersecurity is learned by doing, yet most institutions teach it from slides. Arena turns a campus into a live cyber range — with the tooling instructors need to teach, supervise and examine on it.

Instructor Portals

A roster view of every learner — enrolment, progress, solves, streaks and exam status at a glance. Grade assignments, quizzes and labs from one place, much of it scored automatically from captured flags.

Live Proctoring & Recording

Record every candidate's Outpost session and live-stream any student's screen during an exam. Every session is captured, timestamped and archivable for moderation and academic-integrity review.

Structured, Gated Learning

Pathway → Course → Module → Lecture, Quiz & Lab. Learners unlock the next step only after completing the previous one. Ready-made courses ship on day one, then get co-authored with your faculty.

Classroom to Competition

The Events engine lets an institution run its own CTFs — internal assessments, faculty championships or national inter-university competitions — then release those challenges into the practice catalogue.

Owned, Not Rented

One institutional deployment instead of recurring per-student subscriptions that never scale to a full cohort.

Built for Teaching

Courses, gating, exams, grading and proctoring are first-class features — not bolted onto a hobbyist hacking site.

Sovereign & Private

Every student action, lab, recording and result stays on campus infrastructure, under the institution's control.

The Landscape

Why Arena, and Not the Alternatives

Public platforms are excellent for individuals. None are built to be owned, curated, examined-on and invigilated by an institution. That is exactly where Arena sits.

Capability	Arena	Public cloud platforms*	Self-host CTF kits
On-prem / air-gapped deployment	Yes	No	Partial
Browser-delivered attack VM (no install)	Yes — Outpost	Subscription-gated, internet-dependent	No
Instructor portals & grading	Yes	No	No
Exam recording & live proctoring	Yes	No	No
Practical examination mode	Yes	No	No
Integrated LMS (courses + gating)	Yes	Partial	No
Institution-owned data & content	Yes	No	Yes
On-site staffing & instructor enablement	Yes	No	No
Per-student cost at scale	Fixed / owned	Per-seat	Low

*Comparison reflects typical offerings of public cybersecurity training platforms; comparable features there are subscription-gated and internet-dependent rather than deployable inside the institution.

Pricing Model

One Deployment, Not a Thousand Seats

Arena is priced as an owned institutional deployment, sized to your cohort and hardware — not a per-student subscription that grows every term.

What's Included

Platform deployment on your infrastructure, the starter course and challenge library, faculty enablement, the authoring guide, and ongoing support and updates.

How It's Sized

By concurrent lab capacity and modules in use — from a single department to a campus-wide range with examination and competition hosting.

Getting a Number

A scoping workshop is free and gives you a fixed quote. From pilot to a running range is a matter of weeks, not years. Request a quote →

Delivery Model

Deployed, Staffed and Supported by AirOverflow

Arena is delivered as a turnkey programme: we stand up the platform on your infrastructure and stay until your team is self-sufficient.

Deploy

Installed on your own servers (Proxmox/Nomad orchestration). Fully on-prem and air-gap capable — no data leaves your network.

Enable

On-site personnel run the first lab classes alongside your instructors and support the initial exam and proctoring cycles.

Provision

A starter library of courses and challenges, then co-developed with your team so it maps to your syllabus or programme.

Hand Over

A complete guide on challenge and course development, integration and deployment — so your team authors independently.

Support

Continued platform maintenance, updates and a support channel for both technical and content questions.

Who Uses Arena

Built for Everyone in Cybersecurity

Individual Learners

Students and early-career professionals building foundational and advanced skills at their own pace, competing on global leaderboards.

IT & Security Teams

Enterprises using Arena for continuous upskilling, SIEM/EDR validation, team competitions and cyber readiness drills.

Universities & Colleges

Academic institutions running degree programmes with practical lab components, proctored practical exams and campus CTFs.

Government & Military

Agencies and military cyber units running national readiness exercises and scenario-based drills on air-gapped deployments.

Employers & Recruiters

Companies validating candidates with realistic, auto-scored hands-on scenarios and full session replay before making an offer.

Event Organizers

Organizations hosting public or private CTF competitions at any scale, from inter-department events to national championships.

Arena — Your OwnCyber Range