# Red Teaming **Domain:** Adversarial assessment **Doc Type:** Developed Practice Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition **Red teaming** is an authorized, organized effort to emulate an adversary's capabilities against a system, organization, plan, or decision process. A red team tests assumptions and demonstrates how defenses fail; a blue team defends and learns from the exercise. ## Significance Red teaming is planner-tier gamification with institutional consequence. It awards status for finding failure before a hostile actor does, but it also trains dual-use skills. Scope, rules of engagement, reporting, and remediation distinguish productive challenge from uncontrolled attack. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Industry also has to innovate responsibly. Google's focused on building the right way, with appropriate testing, evaluations, red-teaming, and other safeguards against misuse and misalignment – and releasing models or products only after they've been thoroughly reviewed." > **— Sundar Pichai**, *X post following the White House Super Intelligence Luncheon, September 30, 2026* [[reminders/AI Control/Release AI Products Only After Thorough Review by Sundar Pichai|Release AI Products Only After Thorough Review by Sundar Pichai]] ## Sources - NIST, [Red Team glossary definition](https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/Red_Team) ## Routes [[wiki/Capture the Flag|Capture the Flag]] · [[wiki/Bug Bounty|Bug Bounty]] · [[wiki/Kriegsspiel|Kriegsspiel]] · [[wiki/Audience-of-One Attack|Audience-of-One Attack]]