Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (888 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0178BAHP6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 541 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Red teaming. Today, red teams - comprised primarily of fearless skeptics and those assuming the role of saboteurs who seek to better understand the interests, intentions, and capabilities of institutions or potential competitors - are used widely in both the public and private sector. But red teams are only as good as leaders allow them to be, and Zenko shows not only how to create and empower red teams, but also what to do with the information they produce. Essential listening for business leaders and policymakers alike, Red Team will revolutionize the way organizations think about, exploit, compensate for, and correct their institutional strengths and weaknesses. The best practices of red teaming can be applied to the CIA, NYPD, or a pharmaceutical company, and executed correctly they can yield impressive results: red teams give businesses an edge over their competition, poke holes in vital intelligence estimates, and troubleshoot dangerous military missions long before boots are on the ground. In Red Team, national security expert Micah Zenko provides an in-depth investigation into the work of red teams, revealing the best practices, most common pitfalls, and most effective applications of these modern-day Devil'
Real World Red Teaming William Struse I realize that I’ll never be that four star general Red Teaming the possible choices a major world power might make when it realizes it has lost the race to singularity and its nuclear arsenal no longer provides the strategic projection of force it once did, nor will I be the CEO of a multinational internet sale behemoth Red Teaming Europe’s demographic chances into a comprehensive future cooperate sales strategy, nevertheless I did enjoy Micah Zenko’s new book Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy.Despite the subtitle of the book How To Succeed By Thinking Like The Enemy, Mr. Zen. The author provided some good historic background and applications The author provided some good historic background and applications. He offers parameters on how/when Red Teaming should be structured. He described limited application outside of the military or intelligence realm. So if you like some good stories, he did a good job of describing how Red Teaming was applied in those areas.. Best plans and bad intentions Likely my (favorable) bias on this subject. I agree with the author that the use of red-teaming and alternate analysis can (should) lead to better decisions. Sadly, as the author relates, some of the most hopeful exercises failed not because of the methods but because those who wish to hide shortcomings were able to confound the red-teamers. So even the best laid plans for analysis can be derailed due to bad intentions of various actors. Remain hopeful and try to integrate these methods into regular business activities, even if you refrain from calling your efforts "red-teaming."