The FBI operates a 22,000 square-foot fake town in Huntsville, Alabama, purpose-built for simulating cyberattacks. Called the Kinetic Cyber Range, it includes a convenience store, gas station, hospital, furnished houses, and a data center running over 200 servers.
Every building is networked the way a real town would be. That means agents can infect systems with actual malware, practice disrupting infrastructure, and rehearse responses to scenarios that mirror live incidents. It is the physical equivalent of a red team environment, but at civic scale.
The full piece details how the facility works operationally and what kinds of threats the FBI is training against. The architecture of the fake town, and what they chose to include, tells you exactly what the bureau considers the highest-risk attack surfaces right now.
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