Quote of the day

"A Red Team breaks things. They validate an organization’s defenses and response plans by hitting hard and fast, with no restrictions at all.

-- Rafal Los

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"Red Teams assume the role of the outsider to challenge assumptions, look for unexpected alternatives and find the vulnerabilities of a new idea or approach. By consciously working to assume another perspective and out-do the standard team, they provide one means to getting “out-of-the-box” views and insights."

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"Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more."

-- George S. Patton

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"There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team."

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Quote of the day

"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable."

-- George S. Patton

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"Schneier’s Maxim #1 (Don’t Wet Your Pants Maxim): The more excited people are about a given security technology, the less they understand (1) that technology and (2) their own security problems."

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"The efficacy of security is determined more by what is done wrong than by what is done right. (Because the bad guys typically attack deliberately and intelligently, not randomly.)"

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"When in doubt, red team it"

-- Red Teams Blog

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"Thanks for Nothin’ Maxim: A vulnerability assessment that finds no vulnerabilities or only a few is worthless and wrong."

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"High-Tech Maxim: The amount of careful thinking that has gone into a given security device, system, or program is inversely proportional to the amount of high-technology it uses. (In security, high-technology is often taken as a license to stop thinking critically.)"

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