# Red Teaming

Source: https://customlabs.io/glossary/red-teaming/
Updated: 2026-09-13

Security & governance

# Red Teaming

Red teaming is deliberately attacking your own AI system to find what breaks first.

It includes planting adversarial documents, crafting injection payloads, and probing for actions a user should not trigger.

Unlike a golden-set eval, which checks normal cases, a red-team suite checks that failure happens safely.

Run once, it is a point-in-time audit; run in CI on every change, it is regression protection for security.

[AI Security Review](https://customlabs.io/security-review/)[Insight: Prompt injection is a data problem](https://customlabs.io/insights/prompt-injection-threat-model/)[Pattern: Golden-set gate in CI](https://customlabs.io/patterns/golden-set-gate-in-ci/)

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## Related terms

[Guardrails Guardrails are the checks that keep an LLM or agent inside acceptable bounds in production.](https://customlabs.io/glossary/guardrails/)[Prompt Injection Prompt injection is untrusted input crafted to override a model's system prompt or task.](https://customlabs.io/glossary/prompt-injection/)

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