Teams, hats and colours
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/06
I learned a few new things a while ago, but still have a hard time to get the association between colours and meanings right.
Colours:
- white: friendly / sanctioned / by permission
- black: enemy / unsanctioned
- red: attacks by permission
- blue: defends by permission
Based on these tweets and links:
- [Archive.is] jmelesky on Twitter: “@jpluimers Red teams try to break in, blue teams try to keep them out.”
- [Archive.is] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “@IanColdwater @honeybadgerhack What’s a blue team?” / Twitterper
- [Archive.is] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “@jmelesky Great. Thanks! Which hat colors do red teams have? Black or white hat? I’m really bad at learning terminology, so getting the aimed associations right is important for me. So: where do the color names from?”
- [Archive.is] Jeremi M. Gosney on Twitter: “Red/blue stems from military exercises. Blue is used to designate friendly forces, red for enemy forces.… “
- [Archive.is] jmelesky on Twitter: “That’s in the linked article, and the “red team” article it links to. Both teams are white hat — red is paid by an org to try and infiltrate/attack that org, blue is internal to the org, trying to defend.… “
- [Archive.is] Bryce Katz on Twitter: “@jpluimers @jmelesky As I understand it, “white hats” are sanctioned to infiltrate or defend. “Black hats” are the unsanctioned folks (read: criminals) trying to gain access. Blue/Red teams are white hat by definition.”
- [Archive.is] Carmen San Diego 👩💻🐡🐙 on Twitter: “Black hat definition is dependent on who you ask. Corps view anyone poking around in their system without their permission as black hat. Infosec community defines it more as someone or some group that is trying to get into something or break something for personal gains/agendas.…”
- [Archive.is] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “@brycekatz @jmelesky So red teams work “by permisson” hence white hat? Attacks from teams without permission are black hat?” / Twitter
- [Archive.is] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “@brycekatz @jmelesky So red teams work “by permisson” hence white hat? Attacks from teams without permission are black hat?”
- [WayBack] Black and white hat symbolism in film – Wikipedia
- [WayBack] Red team: Overview – Wikipedia
In United States war-gaming simulations, the U.S. force is always the Blue Team and the opposing force is always the Red Team.
–jeroen
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