The world is more interconnected than ever before. In this digital era, numerous opportunities await. However, it also harbours serious dangers, particularly due to the escalating professionalisation and commercialisation of cybercrime. The pursuit of financial gain, coupled with shockingly low barriers to enter into this ecosystem, presents significant challenges for defenders. Data is a pivotal element in this context. Unauthorised access to data places threat actors in an ideal position to advance their illegal activities. Due to the opportunism exhibited in cybercrime, no one is safe. Data leakage knows no boundaries and can impact anyone indiscriminately from individuals and small businesses to large organisations. This makes it all the more important to delve this pervasive threat and understand how adversaries obtain valuable data and what they do with it, pursuing their malicious objectives.
This pressing situation provides ample motivation to closely examine the current threat landscape and has ultimately led to the creation of this report, which sheds light on the latest trends and tactics related to data leakage. In the interest of clarity, we seek to outline the scope of the term “data leakage“. Despite the intuitively understanding of that term by a broad audience, various discussions in scientific literature and among security experts exist as well. Most about these debates deal with nuances and so no broadly accepted definition exists to date leading to ambiguity and misconception at the very end. These circumstances are obviously not expedient in times where data is the world’s most valuable resource requiring ample attention in terms of protection. For the purpose of this report, a pragmatical approach is conducted to shape data leakage into a fairly simple yet precise definition. It leans on the description given in but also takes into consideration the current and constantly evolving threat surface. On that account, we define data leakage as any security-related incident that leads to the distribution of private or sensitive data to unauthorised entities regardless of whether the concrete incident was caused accidentally or on purpose. Hence, data leakage can be considered arbitrary interceptions or unwanted exfiltration of valuable information that results in disclosure of high-valued data. disregarding whether the incident occurred in-use, in-motion or at-rest.
Therefore, we published a comprehensive report with seven chapters under the title ‘Data Leakage 2024+: Current Cyberthreat Tactics and Beyond’.
In this report, you benefit from:
➡️ Cutting-edge insights into the latest tactics employed by cybercriminals
➡️ The relationship between AI technology and data leakage in particular
➡️ Strategic and valuable recommendations to fortify your defense against potential data leaks
➡️ Over 50 years of cybersecurity excellence from infodas. With our military-proven solutions and services, we have made it our mission to protect your business-critical data
Download the free report here, unlock crucial insights and protect against the growing menace posed by data leakage.
