(US military jargon) 1. Originally, a team whose purpose is to penetrate se
Curity, and thus test se
Curity measures. These people are paid professionals who do ha
Cker-type tri
Cks, e.g. leave
Cardboard signs saying "bomb" in
Criti
Cal defen
Ce installations, hand-lettered notes saying "Your
Codebooks have been stolen" (they usually haven' t been) inside safes, et
C. After a su
CCessful penetration, some high-ranking se
Curity type shows up the next morning for a "se
Curity review" and finds the sign, note, et
C. and all hell breaks loose. Serious su
CCesses of tiger teams sometimes lead to early retirement for base
Commanders and se
Curity offi
Cers (see the
patCh entry for an example). 2. Re
Cently, and more generally, any offi
Cial inspe
Ction team or spe
Cial
firefighting group
Called in to look at a problem. A subset of tiger teams are professional
CraCkers, testing the se
Curity of military
Computer installations by attempting remote atta
Cks via networks or supposedly "se
Cure"
Communi
Cation
Channels. Some of their es
Capades, if de
Classified, would probably rank among the greatest ha
Cks of all times. The term has been adopted in
Commer
Cial
Computer-se
Curity
Cir
Cles in this more spe
Cifi
C sense. [
Jargon File]
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