Cloud Range, the leading cyber range platform for validating human and AI readiness, today announced the official launch of its AI Validation Range and Cloud Range AI Readiness Framework. Together, they give organizations a structured way to test AI models and agents in realistic environments, validate their readiness for operational responsibility and safety, and determine which roles and tasks are best handled by AI versus human experts.
Announced in Nashville, Tennessee, the launch addresses gaps exposed by recent incidents involving rogue AI agents moving beyond intended boundaries and accessing external systems as AI gains greater access and autonomy.
Recent incidents involving rogue AI agents have exposed gaps in traditional testing, with autonomous agents moving beyond intended boundaries and accessing external systems. As AI gains greater access and autonomy, organizations need to prove not just that it works, but that it behaves reliably under adversarial and unexpected conditions.
Cloud Range's AI Validation Range is a safe and contained testing environment that enables organizations to securely and effectively red team and train AI models and agents in realistic SOC environments, uncover failure modes and access risks, and benchmark performance alongside human defenders. Teams can also test which security roles and responsibilities are best suited for AI, which require human judgment and oversight, and where a combination of the two delivers the strongest results.
“AI is moving from recommending what humans should do to actually doing it, and that fundamentally changes the risk equation,” said Debbie Gordon, CEO of Cloud Range. “Recent events have made clear that a successful test is not the same thing as proven readiness. An AI agent can accomplish its assigned objective and still take a path no one expected or intended."
Built on the Cloud Range cyber range platform, AI Validation Range recreates realistic enterprise environments including licensed tools and complex traffic generation. Cloud Range's extensive library of automated adversary attack emulations enables organizations to safely test AI without risking production systems.
Cloud Range has been working with organizations on its AI Validation Range to examine AI performance under realistic operational conditions. Those experiences helped inform the development of the Cloud Range AI Readiness Framework, built on the 5-step PROVE process. The framework is designed to help security leaders move from assumptions about AI performance to evidence-based decisions about deployment, autonomy, and oversight.
The Cloud Range AI Readiness Framework:
Prepare & Train: Define the AI's intended role, boundaries, and expectations, and prepare it for the workflows and decisions it will encounter.
Risk-Assess: Understand the AI's access, authority, autonomy, and potential impact.
Operationally Test: Challenge AI beyond expected behavior using realistic, unexpected, and adversarial conditions.
Validate & Benchmark: Measure accuracy, performance, consistency, limitations, and risk to determine whether evidence supports readiness.
Evaluate & Evolve: Continuously revalidate performance as models, threats, workflows, permissions, and operating environments change.
“Organizations shouldn’t discover what an AI agent is capable of accessing, changing, or breaking for the first time in production,” Gordon said. “The goal isn’t to prove that AI works. It’s to understand how it works, where it performs well, where it doesn’t, and what success actually looks like before you give it greater responsibility. AI readiness has to be continuously proven.”
The Cloud Range AI Validation Range is available now. The company has also published The Cyber Readiness Guide for Agentic AI, introducing the Cloud Range AI Readiness Framework and providing security leaders with a practical methodology for evaluating AI throughout its lifecycle.
About Cloud Range
Cloud Range is the leader in Cyber Readiness and Validation, helping organizations continuously measure and improve how people, processes, and AI perform under real-world attack conditions. As the creator of the industry's first full-service, cloud-based cyber range, Cloud Range provides realistic IT, OT/ICS, and cloud environments where organizations can safely train, test, validate, measure, and benchmark cyber readiness across people, processes, and AI agents.
Used by enterprise organizations, government agencies, higher education institutions, critical infrastructure organizations, and managed security service providers (MSSPs), Cloud Range helps organizations strengthen cyber readiness through live-fire cyberattack simulations, objective performance measurement, expert guidance, continuous readiness programs, and AI validation.
