red team

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red team (plural red teams)

  1. An independent group employed to challenge an organization by assuming an adversarial role or point of view.
    Coordinate terms: blue team, purple team

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red team (third-person singular simple present red teams, present participle red teaming, simple past and past participle red teamed)

  1. (transitive) To challenge an organization by assuming an adversarial role.
    • 1998, Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, page 218:
      Operationally, fielded systems are red teamed by the Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC) under the Air Force's Computer Security Assessment Program (CSAP).
    • 2015, Micah Zenko, Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy[1], Hachette UK, →ISBN:
      [] Senator Diane Feinstein, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, aptly characterized the alternative analyses applied to the bin Laden intelligence: “They red-teamed it, and red-teamed it, and red-teamed it.”

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