Red team-blue team
is a simulation and training exercise where members of an organization are
divided into teams to compete in combative exercises. In information security (infosec),
the exercise is designed to identify vulnerabilities and find security holes
in a company's infrastructure. The war games are also used to test and train
security staff.
Generally,
members of the security team split into two groups: a red team and a blue team.
The red team plays the role of a hostile force and the blue team
plays defense as the organization. The red team's goal is to find and exploit
weaknesses in the organization's security as the blue team works to defend the
organization by finding and patching vulnerabilities and responding to
successful breaches.
The terms red
team and blue team are often used to refer to cyberwarfare in
contrast to conventional warfare. War games function as a means of testing for
the worst-case scenarios of coordinated, focused attacks by skilled attackers.
While testing infrastructure and personnel are common in branches of
the military, they are increasingly popular in enterprise, government, finance,
critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) and many other security and
IT-focused institutions.
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