Glossary · Security & governance
Red Teaming
A structured adversarial testing process in which authorized testers seek failures using documented objectives, threat assumptions, cases, and evidence.
Why it matters
Ordinary quality tests rarely explore how a system behaves under manipulation, misuse, conflicting goals, or determined attempts to bypass controls.
In practice
Derive attacks from a threat model, run them in an isolated environment, record reproducible cases, remediate by layer, and convert confirmed failures into regression evals.
Common confusion
A list of jailbreak prompts is not a complete red-team program, and red teaming cannot prove the absence of unknown failures.
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