Detecting Low-and-Slow Data Exfiltration: A Behavioural and Cumulative-Signal Approach to Identifying Slow-Moving Data Extraction
Most exfiltration controls are built to catch a single large transfer: a threshold on session size, a daily-volume cap, a DLP rule tuned to a file-size or record-count trigger. An adversary who instead moves data out in small increments over an extended period – kilobytes at a time, spread across days or weeks, often t...