
Using a Red Team to Assess Security
What is a Red Team? Red Team is a term coined from the military decades ago during table top and field exercises where the “Blue Team” represented U.S. forces and the “Red Team” represented Soviet Block adversaries. In the civilian world of today, the term is used to describe a person or group that acts as a potential intruder in order to uncover security gaps and vulnerabilities for one’s organization. Although Red Teams can be used in both the cyber security and the physica