Wells Fargo s Steve Adegbite spoke on the challenges of detecting silent removal of data at Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit here today. Businesses, especially those in the financial sector, should operate under the assumption that data exfiltration is or will soon happen in their organization, he said. He said many people, even those who work in networks, don t fully understand how data exits. There are countless channels used for data transmission: cloud-based apps like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services, various internet/web portals, social media, etc.
Source: https://threatpost.com/preventing-silent-data-exits-a-workable-problem-for-businesses/111111/