Red Team vs. Blue Team

A red team plays the role of an attacker, attempting to breach defenses using realistic tactics, techniques, and procedures, often without the defending team's foreknowledge of the exact timing or method. A blue team is the defending side — the people and systems responsible for detecting and responding to that activity. Where a standard penetration test is usually scoped and expected, a red team exercise more closely simulates a real, unannounced attack to test detection and response capability, not just the presence of a vulnerability. Findings from either exercise land in the same triage workflow in Venstap, since both ultimately produce the same kind of actionable finding that needs an owner and a remediation path.