Methods and Systems for simulating a network environment includes simulating network components and network architecture of a user network, simulating real-world network traffic on the simulated user network, simulating network events within the simulated real-world traffic on the simulated user network, monitoring the simulated network, the simulated traffic including the simulated network events, and receiving input from a user, such inputs manually controlling/managing the simulated network components of the simulated user network responsive to the monitoring.