Data Exfiltration
Data exfiltration is the unauthorized transfer of data out of an organization's systems, whether carried out by an external attacker after a breach, a malicious insider, or malware, typically for theft, extortion, or espionage purposes.
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Glossary Terms(7)
API Security Gateway
An API security gateway is a dedicated proxy layer that sits in front of an organization's APIs to enforce authentication, authorization, rate limiting, schema…
Rate Limiting (Security)
Rate limiting, as a security control, is the practice of capping how many requests a client can make to a system within a given time window, in order to preven…
Bot Detection
Bot detection is the set of techniques used to distinguish automated, non-human traffic from genuine human users interacting with a website, application, or AP…
Insider Threat
An insider threat is a security risk that originates from someone with legitimate authorized access to an organization's systems or data — such as an employee,…
Data Exfiltration
Data exfiltration is the unauthorized transfer of data out of an organization's systems, whether carried out by an external attacker after a breach, a maliciou…
Command and Control (C2)
Command and control (C2), also written C&C, refers to the infrastructure and communication channels an attacker uses to remotely control compromised systems wi…
Indicator of Compromise (IOC)
An indicator of compromise (IOC) is a piece of forensic evidence — such as a malicious file hash, IP address, domain name, registry key, or file path — that si…