Offensive Information Warfare, Intelligence Gathering and Direct Action Operations Using Red Teams - Part 1

​About a year ago I wrote a paper entitled Offensive Information warfare, Intelligence Gathering and Direct Action Operations Using Red Teams, I posted the table of contents in the blog a while ago.

That paper haven't seen the light of the day, yet. However many people asked about this so I decided to write a six part article about this that will provide the basic ideas on each part of the paper.

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Concepts for the Red Team Mindset - Concept 3 Ridiculous Thinking

Ridiculous thinking is a way of combining linear and lateral thinking. It’s a way of attacking “linear” problems through an indirect and creative approach and of dealing with complexity by attacking it from different sides and utilizing “combine arms” - combined minds.

Concepts for the Red Team Mindset - Concept 3 Ridiculous Thinking

Ridiculous thinking is a way of combining linear and lateral thinking. It’s a way of attacking “linear” problems through an indirect and creative approach and of dealing with complexity by attacking it from different sides and utilizing “combine arms” - combined minds.

Concepts for the Red Team Mindset - Concept 2 Cross-Domain Red Teaming

Cross-domain red teaming, also called multidimensional or full spectrum red teaming portrays real adversaries better than single-domain red teaming. Cross domain refers to how attacks by real adversaries take advantage of three major security domains – digital, physical, and human – to attack systems. Cross-domain red teaming attacks systems through the people, their processes, and the technology (digital or physical) to achieve the effect that the portrayed adversary would want.