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Emerging Technologies in Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience-By-Design: the Case of Cyber Ranges

Land Forces Academy Review
Volume 30 (2025): Issue 3 (September 2025)
By: Adrian-Victor Vevera,  Alexandru Georgescu and  Ella Magdalena Ciupercă  
Open Access
|Sep 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raft-2025-0047 | Journal eISSN: 3100-5071 | Journal ISSN: 3100-5063
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Language: English
Page range: 494 - 508
Published on: Sep 18, 2025
Published by: Nicolae Balcescu Land Forces Academy
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
resilience,
cyber range,
cybersecurity,
training,
critical infrastructures
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Business management,
Business management, other,
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Electrical engineering,
Fundamentals of electrical engineering,
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