Alfons: A Mimetic Network Environment Construction System

Mimetic environments, which mimic actual networks including personal computers, network assets, etc., are required for cyber range or malware analysis. However, constructing various mimetic environments is costly and tedious because each environment has different network assets. Thus, we propose a building block system for constructing mimetic network environments for cyber security experiments. These building blocks provides a fine-grained way to manage disk images and files to reduce the construction cost. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the building block system called Alfons.