South Florida facility teaches companies how to avoid cyberattacks NBC 6 South Florida [Video]

We’ve shown you how sophisticated criminals can hack their way into the network of major companies, but there are experts working to stop them.

The Levan Center Cyber Range located at Nova Southeastern University helps business owners fortify their online systems to help prevent cyberattacks.

The cyber range creates as virtual environment that simulates real-world cyberattacks and can bring vulnerabilities to light in an organization’s network, server or operating system.

“It’s almost like a fire drill for cyber security incidents,” said cybersecurity trainer Ross Seay. 

Seay works with Maverc Technologies. He says cyber ranges can be used to train company employees, students, IT specialist and more.

“We can create it virtualized using virtualization technology and then we can simulate certain attacks, real-life attacks, that hackers are using,” Seay said.

But spotting a system’s vulnerabilities only goes so far. Many data breaches happen because employees get tricked into clicking on a …