Red teaming: Operations Security (OPSEC) and how to ensure your actions go unnoticed

Short for operations security, OPSEC is focused on ensuring the information tied to red team operations is kept out of the hands of adversaries, through avenues like careful planning and control, obfuscation of critical information, or more specific denial of an adversary’s attempt to obtain our info.

OPSEC encompasses five steps:

• identifying critical information (CI)—This would be any info that would hurt the red team if the blue team found out about it. You might ask yourself: What would …

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