A security analyst has discovered that an outbound SFTP process is occurring at the same time of day for the past several days. At the time this was discovered, large amounts of business critical data were delivered. The authentication for this process occurred using a service account with proper credentials. The security analyst investigated the destination IP for this transfer and discovered that this new process is not documented in the change management log. Which of the following would be the BEST course of action for the analyst to take?

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A security analyst has discovered that an outbound SFTP process is occurring at the same time of day for the past several days. At the time this was discovered, large amounts of<br/> business critical data were delivered. The authentication for this process occurred using a service account with proper credentials. The security analyst investigated the destination IP<br/> for this transfer and discovered that this new process is not documented in the change management log. Which of the following would be the BEST course of action for the analyst to<br/> take?