FBI Director James Comey spoke to the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University on January 7, 2015. He noted some people in the technical security community expressed confusion about this statement. In this case, “red team” refers to a group performing the actions Director Comey outlined above. Harvard Professor and former government official Cass Sunstein explains the sort of red team mentioned by Comey in his new book Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter. Appoint an adversary: Red-teaming is one of the ways to avoid group think to improve decision making.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2015/01/cass-sunstein-on-red-teaming.html