Offensive Security
What is Red Teaming?
Also known as: Red Team
Red teaming is a goal-oriented adversarial exercise where security professionals emulate the tactics, techniques, and procedures of real threat actors to test an organization's detection and response capabilities. Unlike a standard penetration test, it is scenario driven and often stealthy, measuring how well people, processes, and technology withstand a determined attacker.
Example
A red team gains an initial foothold through a phishing email, moves laterally across the network, and attempts to reach a defined objective without being detected by the security operations team.
Reference: NIST ↗
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