A demo of the Virginia Cyber Range's new "error state" exercise diagnostic tool being made available to all users! Before now, users and educators had limited visibility into the events that led to the instability of the environment. With this new tool, we can expose the shell history, system logs, and configuration files to users for analysis.
We understand not everyone (especially students) is an expert in these systems so, to help out, we additionally run the information through an AI to try and point you in the right direction. We hope this extra information will help you and your students!
Senior Cloud Systems Engineer, Virginia Cyber Range
Lee Doughty is the Senior Cloud Systems Engineer at the Virginia Cyber Range (a commonwealth-funded initiative attached to Virginia Tech). His primary responsibilities include securing and managing the dozens of AWS Accounts used by the range, provisioning tens of thousands of student... Read More →
Wednesday July 15, 2026 9:15am - 9:45am EDT Room 3100
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming cybersecurity. However, its greatest impact on education may not be the addition of new AI courses or technologies. As AI evolves from a productivity tool into an intelligent collaborator, it challenges long-held assumptions about what students should learn, how they learn, how they are assessed, and which foundational skills will define the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Preparing students for this future requires more than updating cybersecurity curricula; it requires rethinking the educational experience itself.
Drawing on lessons learned from the ongoing evolution of GMU’s cybersecurity engineering programs, this keynote explores the opportunities, challenges, and difficult tradeoffs involved in redesigning cybersecurity education in the age of AI. Rather than presenting a single institutional model, it proposes a practical framework of design principles that educators, academic leaders, industry partners, and policymakers can adapt to their own educational contexts while preparing students for an increasingly AI-driven profession.
Have your students encountered issues following handouts or documents in the Cyber Range before? Have you ever felt a bit overwhelmed with aligning courseware to exercise environments? Or maybe you’ve even had issues with students jumping ahead of steps in an assignment, resulting in errors and confusion. If you’ve dealt with any of that, you’ll likely be interested in hearing about our brand new exercise area feature, which could help alleviate those struggles.
In this session, we’ll highlight our Side-by-Side feature that allows integration with our courseware and virtual machines. We’ll explore key functionalities and capabilities that this feature provides, including:
-Displaying laboratory exercises and the virtual machine side-by-side -Allowing students to submit answers to the lab questions within the interface -Empowering instructors to download student submissions to review and grade
Join the folks from the Support Team to discover how you can incorporate this feature into your Cyber Range courses and enhance the learning experience for your students!
