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First look: A fake town in Huntsville, Alabama, is being used to study how cyberattacks unfold in the real world, down to individual homes, vehicles, and critical infrastructure such as hospitals and power systems. The facility, built by the FBI and known as the Cyber Range, spans roughly 22,000 square feet and includes many of the features found in a small town: a gas station, a hospital, a convenience store, and several fully furnished homes.
At first glance, the Cyber Range looks like a stage set for traditional, in-person training drills. In reality, nearly everything inside is wired so the systems behave like they would in an actual community network, which is the whole point of the build.
The bureau opened the site last year, but only recently offered a closer look at how it operates through a newly released video. What stands out in the footage is not just the scale of the facility, but how tightly everything is interconnected. This is not a collection of isolated test environments. Instead, it functions as a single, integrated ecosystem.
