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Red-teaming

Structured adversarial testing in which a team attempts to break a system's security or reliability controls under realistic attack conditions; a practical method for generating evidence of Article 15(5) cybersecurity compliance by demonstrating that prevention and detection controls hold against active attempts to exploit named threat categories.

Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in EU AI Act Implementation Expert.

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

EU AI Act Implementation Expert

Structured adversarial testing in which a team attempts to break a system's security or reliability controls under realistic attack conditions; a practical method for generating evidence of Article 15(5) cybersecurity compliance by demonstrating that prevention and detection controls hold against active attempts to exploit named threat categories.

AI Governance: Applied Mastery

The practice of attacking your own system on purpose, before an adversary does, to find the failures a motivated user would find. For an AI system, it means playing the attacker, sweeping the families of attacks, and documenting what breaks, so the failures are found in private with time to fix them rather than in public at launch.

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