Tag: Data exfiltration

1. Introduction Ransomware screams; exfiltration whispers. While data hijacking produces a visible outage and ransom notes, the silent theft of information can go on for months without anyone noticing. The average lifecycle of an exfiltration breach is 258 days from initial access to containment, and the global average cost of a breach reached $4.88 million, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach report. Detecting earlier is the lever with the highest return: breaches detected internally cost almost one million dollars less than those discovered by a third party. This article is written for executives, IT managers and security teams …