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tiger team
tiger team n informal a group of highly skilled workers assigned to tasks of special importance and urgency tiger team
tiger teambusiness jargon A team of highly skilled professionals who are assembled to investigate, test, or try to exploit the potential weaknesses of a company's or organization's security system. The tech giant has begun recruiting coders and hackers fresh out of college into tiger teams to stress test vulnerabilities in their new operating system.See also: team, tigertiger team
tiger team(US military jargon) 1. Originally, a team whose purpose is topenetrate security, and thus test security measures. Thesepeople are paid professionals who do hacker-type tricks,e.g. leave cardboard signs saying "bomb" in critical defenceinstallations, hand-lettered notes saying "Your codebooks havebeen stolen" (they usually haven't been) inside safes, etc.After a successful penetration, some high-ranking securitytype shows up the next morning for a "security review" andfinds the sign, note, etc. and all hell breaks loose. Serioussuccesses of tiger teams sometimes lead to early retirementfor base commanders and security officers (see the patchentry for an example).
2. Recently, and more generally, any official inspection teamor special firefighting group called in to look at aproblem.
A subset of tiger teams are professional crackers, testingthe security of military computer installations by attemptingremote attacks via networks or supposedly "secure"communication channels. Some of their escapades, ifdeclassified, would probably rank among the greatest hacks ofall times. The term has been adopted in commercialcomputer-security circles in this more specific sense. |