  It is undeniable that we are witnessing an unprecedented digital revolution.
However, recent years have been characterized by the explosion of cyberattacks,
making cybercrime one of the most profitable businesses on the planet. That is
why training in cybersecurity is increasingly essential to protect the assets
of cyberspace. One of the most vital tools to train cybersecurity competencies
is the Cyber Range, a virtualized environment that simulates realistic
networks. The paper at hand introduces SCORPION, a fully functional and
virtualized Cyber Range, which manages the authoring and automated deployment
of scenarios. In addition, SCORPION includes several elements to improve
student motivation, such as a gamification system with medals, points, or
rankings, among other elements. Such a gamification system includes an adaptive
learning module that is able to adapt the cyberexercise based on the users'
performance. Moreover, SCORPION leverages learning analytics that collects and
processes telemetric and biometric user data, including heart rate through a
smartwatch, which is available through a dashboard for instructors. Finally, we
developed a case study where SCORPION obtained 82.10% in usability and 4.57 out
of 5 in usefulness from the viewpoint of a student and an instructor. The
positive evaluation results are promising, indicating that SCORPION can become
an effective, motivating, and advanced cybersecurity training tool to help fill
current gaps in this context.
