red team

English

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

• red-team

See also

• alternative analysis

Anagrams

• red meat, remated, retamed