Red team
A team authorised to simulate real attacks to find weaknesses.
Learn it through a story
- Red Team, Blue Team, Same Team (Cybersecurity for Juniors 3, Ch 16)
- How a Chatbot Goes to School (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 5)
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Related terms
- RBAC / ABAC Role-based and attribute-based access control, two models for deciding who's allowed to do what.
- Recruitment fraud A fake job or internship offer designed to look like a genuine hiring process.
- Red flag A warning sign that something might not be what it claims to be.
- Refresh token A longer-lived, separately managed token used to obtain new short-lived access tokens.
- Responsible disclosure Reporting a security flaw quietly to whoever can fix it, instead of exploiting or publicising it.
- Restore To bring back files from a backup after losing the originals.