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red team

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-003479

A group of people authorized and organized to emulate a potential adversary's attack or exploitation capabilities against an enterprise's security posture. The Red Team's objective is to improve enterprise CS by demonstrating the impacts of successful attacks and by demonstrating what works for the defenders (i.e., the Blue Team) in an operational environment.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-003479
FieldCybersecurity
ReferencesCNSSI 4009-2022; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-003479",
  "term": "red team",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "A group of people authorized and organized to emulate a potential adversary's attack or exploitation capabilities against an enterprise's security posture. The Red Team's objective is to improve enterprise CS by demonstrating the impacts of successful attacks and by demonstrating what works for the defenders (i.e., the Blue Team) in an operational environment.",
  "references": [
    "CNSSI 4009-2022",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/red-team/"
}

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