Florida gives public-sector employees free incident response training on a state-funded cyber range. Cyber Florida launched the program in early 2023 on the SimSpace platform, pairing on-demand modules for individuals with scheduled live-fire team exercises and advanced sessions that put technical responders and executive leadership into the same scenario. Bruce Caulkins, a retired Army colonel who ran the feasibility study and now directs the range, told TechTarget that participants are “thrown into a situation where they have to find the needle in the haystack.” Environments are customized to the tools teams actually use, and to emerging threats. Senior Director Ernie Ferraresso notes that a realistic Volt Typhoon simulation did not exist before. Critical infrastructure operators come next.
