Exfiltration

Quick meaning: Exfiltration is a noun meaning (military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).

Meaning

(military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).

More Meanings

1. (civil engineering) A method for managing storm water runoff.
2. (sciences) A filtering out (usually movement of a substance through a barrier).
3. (biology) A gradual movement of a substance to exterior (as through cell membrane to extracellular fluid or medium).
4. (computer security) The covert extraction of data from a system.

Example Sentences

Phishing is sending emails or other electronic communications to fraudulently or unlawfully induce recipients to reveal personal or sensitive information, such as passwords, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, credit card information, financial information, or other sensitive information, or to gain access to accounts or records, exfiltration of documents or other sensitive information, payment and/or financial benefit.

Word Forms

• exfiltrations

Synonyms for exfiltration

Depending on context, synonyms include exfil.

Antonyms for exfiltration

Common opposites include infiltration.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exfil, extraction, outflight, efflux, escaping, evacuation.

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