Yellow Team
What is Yellow Team?
Yellow TeamThe builders — developers, architects, and DevOps engineers — who design and ship the systems that red and blue teams attack and defend.
In the BAD pyramid (Build, Attack, Defend) yellow represents the builders: software engineers, architects, cloud and DevOps practitioners. The color was added to the original red/blue model to highlight that real security improvement requires the people who write code and run platforms, not only those who attack or defend them. Yellow teams own secure design, threat modeling, paved-road frameworks, secure SDLC practices, and the implementation of preventive controls. Modern derivative colors — orange (yellow + red, building with offensive insight) and green (yellow + blue, building with defensive feedback) — describe how yellow collaborates with red and blue.
● Examples
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Application teams adopting a paved-road template that ships authn, logging, and CSP by default.
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A platform team partnering with the blue team to add high-fidelity audit logs to a new service.
● Frequently asked questions
What is Yellow Team?
The builders — developers, architects, and DevOps engineers — who design and ship the systems that red and blue teams attack and defend. It belongs to the Defense & Operations category of cybersecurity.
What does Yellow Team mean?
The builders — developers, architects, and DevOps engineers — who design and ship the systems that red and blue teams attack and defend.
How do you defend against Yellow Team?
Defences for Yellow Team typically combine technical controls and operational practices, as detailed in the full definition above.