A Comparative Study of Online Cybersecurity Training Platforms

With the rapidly growing number of cybersecurity training solutions, new opportunities have been introduced for real-world simulated cyber threats to be accessible. It has improved the participant’s ability to detect and respond in a timely and effective manner. These platforms vary in technical details. However, all have one common objective to improve cybersecurity understanding and awareness. This paper presents and surveys the ten most popular commercial and open-source cybersecurity training platforms for online learning based on practical training. In addition, a comparative analysis and discussion of platform-specific features based on a proposed software taxonomy that aids in the classification is presented. The findings of this study can be useful to both developers and contributors of cybersecurity training platforms for further improvements or to develop new ones.