---
id: "prereq-red-teaming"
type: "prereq"
source_timestamps: ["§ Seven Imperatives for Creating Diverse Agentic Teams"]
tags: ["security"]
related: ["action-cultural-red-teaming"]
reason: "Provides the mental model for how organizations should proactively stress-test their AI systems."
sources: ["agentic"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-agentic"
originDay: 6
articleStem: "hbr-new-28-agent-teams-different-models"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/the-strongest-teams-of-ai-agents-will-be-built-using-different-models"
sourceTitle: "The Strongest Teams of AI Agents Will Be Built Using Different Models"
---
# Cybersecurity Red-Teaming Concepts

**Prerequisite knowledge.** Familiarity with the cybersecurity practice of **'red-teaming'** — where ethical hackers simulate attacks to find vulnerabilities before adversaries do — is assumed.

**Why it matters:** It provides the mental model for how organizations should **proactively stress-test** their AI systems. The article extends this security discipline to a *cultural* dimension — testing AI for cultural and societal biases (see [[action-cultural-red-teaming]]) — so the reader must first grasp the original adversarial-testing concept to appreciate the extension.