CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.
Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity established a Marine Corps’ Adversarial Cyber Assessment “Blue Team” on November 10.
This designation is dedicated to support Marine Corps Systems Command’s Programs of Record, which enhances acquisitions cyber test and evaluation capabilities, stated Maj. Gen. M.G. Glavy, commander of Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command, in a memo authorizing the adversarial “Blue Team” designation.
What is a Blue Team?
As part of the U.S. computer security defense initiative, “Red Teams” were developed to exploit other malicious entities that would do them harm. As a result, “Blue Teams” were developed to design defensive measures against such “Red Team” activities.