tiger team

tiger team

business 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, tiger
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
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  • in layman's terms
  • install(ed) base
  • install(ed) user base
  • user
  • user base
  • bite of the reality sandwich
  • reality
  • take a bite of the reality sandwich
  • VSA
References in periodicals archive
To provide transparency, Tiger Teams are placed at the direction of the bureaus.
The tiger team will revise the SBR concept of operations and "strengthen it, get it more specific, relate it better to the intelligence community than it was last year," said Teets.
Essex-born Mr Beardwell, who now lives in Hampton-in-Arden, created Tiger Team in March after years spent as a manager in the financial world, mainly in insurance.
KDPA Kasargod 25 all out (Mohammed 12; Kaushik 2-3, Khawja 2-0) lost to Tiger Team 26 for three (Nurool 16 not out; Nissar 2-5) by two wickets.
On my current ship, PS Deplorable, we actually put together a tiger team to study it.
Phil Beardwell, director of Tiger Team, a new Birmingham business specialising in business coaching
The evolution of the old Tiger Team to the Deployment Support Team marked a significant step in the command's capability to meet rapid changes in the post-Cold War environment.
The technical phase concluded with a Tiger Team review at which upper management from PM Soldier Weapons, GDATP and its subcontractors, and independent technical reviewers were briefed on the alpha process, generated documents, expected exit criteria, contract deliverables, and the master schedule.
Finally, the mighty P4-P7Tigers are away to Newton Stewart to take part in a tournament.The P4-P5 and P6-P7 Tiger teams are playing some of the best rugby in the club The P1-P3Tigers are not travelling as they have a week off.
The task was completed in an "autumn showdown," which was launched to crush the Taliban before they disappear ahead of winter, by British SAS and SBS fighters, US Delta Force units, Afghan Special Forces Tiger Teams and elite outfits from other coalition troops.
Besides the maintenance done by the shipyard, ship's personnel were divided into "tiger teams" to complete sweeping changes.
Pavlak is an engineer who has led several successful Tiger Teams. Traditionally, Tiger Teams are cobbled together to respond to a crisis.
These "Tiger Teams" consist of experienced staff charged by Secretary Principi to expedite resolution of any Compensation and Pension (C&P) case over one year old, especially for older veterans, including remands and substantive appeals.
The Tiger teamed up with another man who knows all about winning - Celtic director Dermot Desmond and his two best friends Mark O'Meara and Peter Malek.