Braxton Mark Marlatt

Mr. Braxton Mark Marlatt

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20 March 2026 in Future Internet
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Braxton Mark Marlatt
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Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) are the backbone of modern critical infrastructure, such as electric power, water treatment, oil and gas distribution, and manufacturing operations. While the convergence of IT and OT has greatly increased efficiency and observability, it has also greatly expanded the attack surface of these once-isolated systems. High-profile cyber-physical attacks, including Stuxnet (2010), TRITON (2017), and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack (2021), have shown that ICS-targeted cyberattacks can cause physical damage, disrupt economic stability, and put public safety at risk. Despite the growing prevalence and intensity of such threats, ICS-based cybersecurity education remains largely under-resourced and underfunded. Traditional ICS training laboratories require highly specialized hardware, vendor-specific tools, and expensive licensing that significantly raise barriers to entry. Traditional labs typically require on-site participation and pose physical safety concerns when cyber-physical attack scenarios are performed. These barriers leave students unable to get necessary security training for ICSs. Therefore, this paper introduces AE3GIS: Agile Emulated Educational Environment for Guided Industrial Security—a fully virtual, lightweight, open-source platform designed to democratize ICS cybersecurity education. Based on the GNS3 network simulation tool, AE3GIS enables rapid deployment of comprehensive ICS environments containing IT and OT systems, industrial communication protocols, control logic, and diverse security tools. AE3GIS is designed to provide practical training for students using realistic ICS cybersecurity scenarios through a local or remote training platform without the cost, safety, or accessibility limitations of hardware-based labs.