{"id":484351,"date":"2026-05-25T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/etymology-what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-red-team-for-a-group\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:50:00","slug":"etymology-what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-red-team-for-a-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/etymology-what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-red-team-for-a-group\/","title":{"rendered":"etymology &#8211; What is the origin of the term &#8220;red team&#8221; for a group &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9 In information security, the military, etc., a &#8220;red team&#8221; is a group that plays the role of an adversary in a simulated engagement (with the &#8220;blue team&#8221; on the other side of the engagement). What is the origin of this term?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/583019\/what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-red-team-for-a-group-simulating-an-adversary\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/583019\/what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-red-team-for-a-group-simulating-an-adversary<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 In information security, the military, etc., a &#8220;red team&#8221; is a group that plays the role of an adversary in a simulated engagement (with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}