SPIDER’s key technological concepts and unique selling points are:

• the development and deployment of a cutting-edge cyber range platform for instructing and certifying cybersecurity professionals in resisting and dealing with modern cybersecurity incidents;
• the establishment of a realistic cybersecurity training infrastructure and brokerage facility for cybersecurity situation awareness, hands-on exercise experience as well as for skills development in key cyber defence areas;
• the provision of a virtual cyber environment that imitates reality for the quantitative, qualitative and realistic assessment of potentially ground-breaking cyber defence technologies and for experimentation with complex cyber-attacks in a contained environment;
• the design and delivery of structured training and cyber exercises (both pre-built and customised) to prepare cyber defenders at both public and private organisations protect their critical infrastructures, enterprises and communications networks;
• the delivery of a serious gaming repository for sharing training material;
• the development of shared approaches to express and transform the end user needs into actual experiments and cyber exercises as well as the development of appropriate tools and methods for supporting current and future generated evidence-based simulation scenarios;
• the development of unique analytics methodologies for quantifying the economic impact of cyber risk;
• the derivation of improved risks analysis and econometric models to facilitate the effective decision-making and faster response to complex cyber risks.
• the development of optimal risk mitigation and risk treatment methods for helping decision makers prioritise cybersecurity investments.