TECHGuru

  Data exfiltration can be described as security breach that occurs when a company’s sensitive information is copied, transferred, or retrieved from a computer or server without authorization to a location controlled by a threat actor. It is commonly known as data extrusion, data exportation, or data theft. Data breaches may involve financial information, such as, credit card or bank details, personal health information, and personally identifiable information, trade secrets of corporations, or intellectual property. Modern organizations are so large, diverse, and complicated that they are themselves unaware of what sensitive data they possess and if it is well-protected; they are also mostly oblivious to which of their communication networks is engaged in malicious data exfiltration. There are certain highly complex and valuable digital assets of organizations that are accessed in day-to-day business, making it easy for hacking of the information via a host of new technologies, s...