Organizations that don't have proper data loss prevention or network intrusion detection/prevention mechanisms in place could fall victim to attackers who use the Exfiltration over Alternative Protocol technique. Threat actors have been known to use this method to exfiltrate data to a URL, via UDP, or even over an email account, for example. There are numerous ways threat actors can use alternative protocols for nefarious means to steal data and put it where they can get to it later.

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