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Since 1997, we’ve posted hundreds of articles on the topics of red teaming, wargaming, and alternative analysis. Here are some of our favorites.
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Since 1997, we’ve posted hundreds of articles on the topics of red teaming, wargaming, and alternative analysis. Here are some of our favorites.
Big screen or little screen, there’s always some red teaming going on.
Modern enterprises need to consider the strategic view.
Here’s the Red Team Journal mission as posted on the site in 1998. For better or worse, it still applies today.
Not everything is as it appears to be.
The minute we dismiss reflexive control is the minute we're "owned."
The ability to perceive unseen, indirect consequences—the things that “have never been permitted to come into existence”—is a skill essential to the red teamer’s art.
Did red teaming begin with the ancient Stoics?
No proposal, agenda, or of national or international consequence should be implemented without first undergoing an independent red team review.
The red teamer’s goal is to see the “true picture” and avoid the blind spots that develop either due to groupthink or due to ignorance of important facts.
Learn the Jaunty Man's bag of tricks without becoming a Jaunty Man yourself.
Defenders should always be aware of the possibility of the degenerate strategy, defined in gaming terms by Salen and Zimmerman as “a way of playing a game that ensures victory every time.”
Money isn't the answer, but it's now part of the problem.
ISO 42010, “Systems and software engineering—Architecture description,” illuminates the path toward “whole” systems red teaming.
We can conceptualize a new operational paradigm in which opposing forces are interposed over each other’s zones of operation.
Throwing money is our default strategy. When it works, we congratulate ourselves on our smarts. When it doesn’t work, we throw more money at the problem and then congratulate ourselves on our smarts.
In many cases, a red team will benefit from reassessing the scope of a problem. This is particularly true when the attacker and defender's points of view fail to align. The Duncker diagram is one way to reframe a problem and identify these possible asymmetries
Our thinking has changed a lot in the intervening years, but it’s still interesting to look back at this snapshot from 2003.