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Re:Department of Defense Releases Zero Trust Strategy and Ro... by TheGeminon on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:45PM (#33714911)
Ideally in a system like this, you don't just look at a single user and a single point (e.g. 100x data transfer in a day), you build out scoring based on a multitude of factors and across related agents/assets, and hopefully you have enough training data to account for irregular or seasonal occurrences.

For one part of the org, occasionally doing 100x data transfers may not be out of the ordinary, while for others it may be exceptional. But it might be anomalous if its 100x data transfer and hitting services no one on your team has ever hit (indicating perhaps scanning/scraping and exfiltrating data, but you don't need to explicitly specify that as an alert).

Re:Department of Defense Releases Zero Trust Strategy and Ro... by Closi on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @11:14PM (#33715085)
Let's remember the level of classification here though - in a usual org an occasional large data transfer might not be worth investigating, but in some contexts within the DoD it's certainly worth investigating.
Re:Department of Defense Releases Zero Trust Strategy and Ro... by thelittleone on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:49AM (#33718532)
And although size of transfer may be a valid indicator, not all valuable data is large in size.
Re:Department of Defense Releases Zero Trust Strategy and Ro... by _tk_ on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:24AM (#33718301)
I work as an Information Security Officer in a corporation with about 100.000 employees. The outlined reasons in this post are what makes these capabilities effective in our org as well.