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Red Team exercise

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An exercise, reflecting real-world conditions, that is conducted as a simulated adversarial attempt to compromise organizational missions and/or business processes to provide a comprehensive assessment of the security capability of the information system and organization.

MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

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National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon

An exercise, reflecting real-world conditions, that is conducted as a simulated attempt by an adversary to attack or exploit vulnerabilities in an enterprise's information systems.

Classifications

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Entity Type

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Red Team exercises
possessive: Red Team exercise's
pluralpossessive: Red Team exercises'

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