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Red Team exercise

nounid 3797·updated Aug 30, 2026
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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.

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Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

Restricted78%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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

Framework definitions

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
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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.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
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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.
NIST SP 800-531 senseview framework →
§1
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.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
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.
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