red team

English

Etymology

Red was the color of the Soviet Union on maps during the Cold War, so "red team" represented the adversary during military simulations.

Noun

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

Verb

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.”

Alternative forms

See also

  • alternative analysis

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