SimSpace has expanded its cyber range platform by launching ARIA (Artificial Range Intelligence Agent), a new AI-powered capability designed to improve how organizations train, test, and validate cybersecurity operations. Through this launch, SimSpace is strengthening its vision of combining realism, AI optimization, and continuous security validation across people, processes, technologies, and AI systems. As cyber threats become more adaptive and AI-driven, organizations increasingly require environments that not only train teams but also continuously test security tools and strategies under real-world conditions.
With ARIA, SimSpace is accelerating the convergence of cybersecurity training and security testing into a single, highly realistic environment. Instead of managing separate systems for simulations, validation, and operational testing, security teams can now validate operators, defensive tools, and AI agents simultaneously. As a result, organizations can move faster from simulation to operational readiness while ensuring technologies perform effectively against advanced adversarial threats.
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Furthermore, ARIA builds on SimSpace’s legacy as a testing-focused company. Previously, many advanced simulation and environment-building capabilities were only accessible to highly specialized users. However, ARIA now democratizes these capabilities by significantly reducing time-to-operation. Consequently, organizations can continuously rehearse cyber scenarios, test defensive technologies, and evaluate both human and AI readiness in real time. This shift helps enterprises maintain security resilience as threat actors increasingly automate and scale attacks.
“The vision for ARIA is that it completely transforms what’s possible inside a cyber range. By converting natural language into detailed, production-grade simulations, ARIA makes realism accessible, repeatable, and scalable for every operator. No matter their skill level,” said Lee Rossey, Co-Founder and CTO at SimSpace. “This is how you close the train-test gap. This is how you validate AI. And this is how you ensure teams and technologies perform under real adversarial pressure. ARIA is incredibly innovative and ushers in a future where building cyber terrain is as intuitive as describing it and where organizations can finally fight smart at scale.”
Additionally, ARIA introduces several core capabilities that strengthen SimSpace’s next-generation platform. First, Intelligent Range Editing allows operators to modify cyber environments instantly using natural language commands. ARIA then converts those requests into precise changes across network topologies, user profiles, attack paths, and defensive configurations. This dramatically reduces manual configuration time and improves operational efficiency.
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Second, Intelligent Range and Scenario Recommendations help organizations select relevant cyber ranges, attack simulations, and behavioral models based on specific mission goals or threat intelligence. As a result, teams can reduce setup complexity while improving scenario realism and accuracy.
Third, Context-Aware Environment and Activity Generation enables full cyber environment creation based on scenario requirements. ARIA dynamically configures infrastructure components, attack techniques, and user behaviors. Therefore, organizations can rapidly prototype environments, test AI security agents, rehearse cyber missions, and develop advanced cyber capabilities in highly realistic operational conditions.
These innovations represent a major shift toward continuous cyber readiness. The first ARIA capabilities, focused on advanced range management, debuted during the recent SimSpace Summit. Moving forward, SimSpace aims to help organizations transition from periodic testing models to continuous validation strategies. Ultimately, by integrating AI-driven simulation with operational testing, SimSpace is positioning ARIA as a critical platform for modern cyber defense, helping organizations prepare for increasingly complex and AI-powered threat landscapes.
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