ESG asked security professionals working at U.S.-based enterprise organizations (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) if APTs had caused their organizations to purchase and deploy new information security technologies. Since the ultimate goal of APT attacks is data exfiltration, bolstering data security controls makes sense. Data encryption will increasingly be encrypted at the network, storage, file system, database, and application layer. Data security controls aren’t worth much if there are multiple copies of sensitive data spread throughout the network.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2221129/data-security-and-apts.html