Red teaming is an intentional test attack on live systems without the knowledge of the infrastructure or platform owner. The red team takes the role of the threat, trying real attacks to get past the defending blue team. This test measures how well a companys people, networks, applications and physical defenses can withstand an attack from a real-life threat. Red-teaming checks how well your team does on security detection and response. It helps to identify production issues, configuration errors and other problems in a controlled way.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/posts/red-teaming-cybersecurity-rules-the-cloud/