Estonian SME building cyber range simulation platforms and threat forecasting tools for critical infrastructure security training across Europe.
CybExer Technologies is an Estonian cybersecurity company specializing in cyber range platforms — controlled simulation environments where security teams practice detecting and responding to real-world attacks. Their core product is technology that enables federated cyber ranges: interconnected simulation infrastructures that can be shared and scaled across national borders and organizations. Beyond infrastructure, they work on the intelligence layer of cybersecurity — gathering cyber threat intelligence (CTI), building econometric risk models, and forecasting threat trends to help organizations prepare before incidents occur. They sit at the intersection of hands-on training technology and predictive security analytics, making them relevant both to security operations teams and to policymakers building national cyber resilience frameworks.
Both ECHO and FORESIGHT directly involve cyber range technology — ECHO around federated range networks at European scale, FORESIGHT around advanced simulation for aviation, naval and power-grid sectors.
ECHO explicitly covers cyberskills frameworks and education; FORESIGHT adds dynamic training scenarios and preparedness exercises for critical infrastructure operators.
FORESIGHT introduces econometric modelling, threat forecasting, and CTI gathering and sharing — extending their capabilities beyond training infrastructure into predictive analytics.
FORESIGHT specifically targets aviation, naval, and power-grid sectors, demonstrating applied domain knowledge beyond generic enterprise security.
Certification appears in both projects — ECHO covers European certification schemes at policy level, FORESIGHT applies certification in the context of training outcomes.
Both H2020 projects launched in 2019, so the evolution is not chronological but thematic — from network and institutional building toward deep technical and analytical capability. Early work (ECHO) focused on the architecture of European-level cybersecurity cooperation: connecting national centres, designing federated range infrastructure, and building shared frameworks for skills and certification. The second project (FORESIGHT) pivoted to the applied technical layer: running simulations for specific critical sectors, developing threat forecasting using econometric models, and enabling CTI sharing across organizations. The direction is clear — from building the European cyber training ecosystem to becoming a specialist provider within it, with growing depth in predictive threat analysis.
CybExer is moving from network-level cyber range infrastructure toward sector-specific simulation and threat intelligence, positioning them as a strong future partner for any consortium tackling critical infrastructure protection or national cyber preparedness.
CybExer has participated exclusively as a consortium partner — never as coordinator — across both projects, suggesting they prefer to contribute specialist technology rather than manage project administration. Both projects involve large consortia (ECHO in particular is a broad European network), meaning they are comfortable operating within complex multi-partner environments and coordinating their contribution alongside many other actors. This points to a mature, reliable partner profile: they know their lane, deliver specialist capability, and do not need to lead to add real value.
CybExer has built connections with 62 unique partners across 20 countries through just two projects — an unusually broad network for an SME with minimal project history, reflecting the large consortium structures typical of EU cybersecurity policy projects like ECHO. Their partnerships span most of the EU plus likely associated countries, giving them a genuinely pan-European reach.
CybExer is one of the very few SMEs in the Baltic region with verified hands-on expertise in cyber range technology at both the platform and federation level — a technically narrow but commercially high-value niche. While many cybersecurity firms offer consulting or managed services, CybExer builds the simulation infrastructure itself, which is what national cybersecurity agencies, defence organizations, and critical infrastructure operators actually need to train their teams. For a consortium building anything related to European cyber resilience, training, or preparedness, they bring something most partners cannot: working cyber range technology developed and tested within EU-funded projects.
