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SPLK-5001 · Question #67

An analyst notices that one of their servers is sending an unusually large amount of traffic, gigabytes more than normal, to a single system on the Internet. There doesn't seem to be any associated in

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Threat Detection and Alerting

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An analyst notices that one of their servers is sending an unusually large amount of traffic, gigabytes more than normal, to a single system on the Internet. There doesn't seem to be any associated increase in incoming traffic. What type of threat actor activity might this represent?

Options

  • AData exfiltration
  • BNetwork reconnaissance
  • CData infiltration
  • DLateral movement

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#data exfiltration#network traffic analysis#anomalous behavior#threat identification
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