>Hi,
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>A friend asked me. I don't know the answer. He is not an IT; works for a large corporation. The corporation has a policy of not saving files from a cloud to a flash drive (for personal use). I am not asking here to judge about the company policy though. My question is strictly technical.
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>He wants to save some files (for personal use) from a cloud to a flash drive. Of course, he does not want the company to be aware of it as it violates the company policy.
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>Which method of copying the file from the cloud to a flash drive is less "detectable" by the company IT?
>1. Open the cloud drive and drop a file from the cloud to the flash drive
>2. Open the file from the cloud (which he does as part of his job) and Save As the file to the flash drive?

Organizations can configure technologies such as Information Rights Management in Office 365 to discourage or prevent these sorts of activities.
I for one will not be further discussing this topic, for what should be obvious reasons.