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Red team

A person or group whose assigned role is to actively attempt to find weaknesses in a system, document, or process by attacking it as an adversary would, rather than reviewing it for general quality. In a data governance context, a red team attacks a lineage map's evidence trail specifically, looking for claims trusted by position rather than proof.

Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Data Governance: The Data Chair.

How each discipline defines it

The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.

AI Data Governance: The Data Chair

A person or group whose assigned role is to actively attempt to find weaknesses in a system, document, or process by attacking it as an adversary would, rather than reviewing it for general quality. In a data governance context, a red team attacks a lineage map's evidence trail specifically, looking for claims trusted by position rather than proof.

AI Governance: Applied Mastery

A person or group that deliberately attacks a system, a file, or a plan to find its weaknesses before a real adversary or a real failure does. In this program the red team attacked your conformity file in Topic 11.1; in this topic you are the red team, attacking someone else's file to learn.

AI Governance: Applied Mastery

A group that deliberately adopts an adversary's goals and methods to find the weaknesses in something before a real adversary does. Here, you red-teaming your own conformity file.

Where it is taught

The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.

Terms it appears with

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