Can Dlp Detect Steganography?

James H. Sterling
James H. Sterling
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Re: Steganography and Dlp Steganography Is a Large Domain Which Cover Many Ways to Hide Information in Binary Document (And Not Only Image). So May Be Dlp Will...

Can Dlp Detect Steganography?

RE: Steganography and DLP
Steganography is a large domain which cover many ways to hide information in binary document (and not only image). So may be DLP will be able to cover some (one way could be by detecting usage of standard steganography tool
steganography tool
A steganography software tool allows a user to embed hidden data inside a carrier file, such as an image or video, and later extract that data. It is not necessary to conceal the message in the original file at all. Thus, it is not necessary to modify the original file and thus, it is difficult to detect anything.
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on endpoint) but not all of them.

How can we detect steganography?

The easiest way for a SOC to detect steganography is to simply invest in an email security or data-loss prevention tool that has such capabilities built in. All you have to do is point the alerts to your monitoring system and respond.

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