Cybersecurity readiness platform Circadence has released its Project Ares service on Microsoft Azure.
By hosting its Project Ares through Microsoft Azure, the company is hoping to establish a cybersecurity learning environment which can scale to replicate networks, complex enterprises, and interconnected city infrastructure.
Project Ares is an AI-powered and gamified cybersecurity learning and assessment platform which helps enterprises and governments to train employees around digital threats. Microsoft’s Azure Bot will also be implemented into Project Ares to help uses on the platform.
By utilising Project Ares, clients can remove expensive costs on in-house cybersecurity training, easy integration with existing infrastructure and they can access new security solutions when they become available on Azure.
At work within Project Ares is the CyRaaS, which is able to generate simulated, virtual environments. These can then be used for individual skill-based learning, team collaboration and interaction, staff or student assessment, or cyber-attack scenario testing. In interacting with the platform, users are able to build real-life skills with how to handle cyber threats.
Microsoft Azure corporate vice president Tom Keane said, “Using our artificial intelligence solutions and the scalability of Microsoft Azure, Circadence is making rapid product advancements in the cybersecurity space. The virtual simulations they’re creating are helping cyber professionals enhance their skills without harming infrastructure, so they can be better prepared as the threat landscape evolves.”
Earlier in the year, fellow cybersecurity training company Living Security raised $500,000 in its seed round of funding. The company has a science-based approach to reinforce positive security behaviours.
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