"Egress" refers to the action of going out or exiting a place
. However, the term can have different meanings depending on the context. Here are some examples:
- Egress Software : Egress Software Technologies Ltd is a UK-based software company that provides security software for email, secure messaging, document and email classification, and associated technologies to assist secure file sharing and handling
- Ingress and Egress in the Cloud : In the world of cloud networking, "egress" implies traffic that exits across a network boundary, while "ingress" is traffic that enters across a network boundary. In the cloud, egress still means traffic that’s leaving from inside the private network out to the public internet, while ingress refers to unsolicited traffic sent from an address in the public internet to the private network
- Data Egress : Data egress is the process of data leaving a network and transferring to an external location. It poses a threat to organizations if it exposes sensitive data to unauthorized or unintended recipients. Egress happens whenever data leaves an organization’s network, be it via email messages, as uploads to the cloud or websites, as a file transferred onto removable media like USB drives and external hard drives, or through FTP or HTTP transfers. Organizations can monitor egress traffic for anomalous or malicious activity through egress filtering
