International Business Machines Corporation

Mikhail Shpak

Leonid Rodniansky

Tania Butovsky

Shidong Shan

Richard Ory Jerrell

Peter Maniatis

An embodiment initiates, by a sensitive stored procedure identification engine, a periodic discovery process on a database server to identify a stored procedure and assign a first sensitivity score to the stored procedure based on a searching of a sensitive data pattern in the stored procedure. The embodiment assigns in real-time, by the sensitive stored procedure identification engine responsive to receiving a stored procedure call by a client over a network, a second sensitivity score to the stored procedure based on a searching of a sensitive data pattern in a response to the stored procedure call. The embodiment compares, by the sensitive stored procedure identification engine, the first sensitivity score and the second sensitivity score. The embodiment determines, by the sensitive stored procedure identification engine based on the comparison, to allow a response to the stored procedure call to the client.

Sensitive stored procedure identification in real-time and without data exposure

Techniques for identifying outlier application connections for computer security are described. These techniques include identifying one or more connections between a client application and one or more services, over a communication network, and determining to switch from an outlier connection learning phase to an outlier connection detection phase based on the identified or more connections, including determining, in real-time and based on a confidence level and a number of previously analyzed connections, to switch to the outlier connection detection phase. The techniques further include determining, based on the switch to the outlier connection detection phase, that a first connection of the identified one or more connections is an outlier connection, and acting to reduce a security risk relating to the first connection.

Identifying outlier application connections to services with controlled confidence level and in real-time

A mechanism is provided for monitoring and controlling data access. Responsive to intercepting a response from a server to a request for information from a client device, a security system agent applies pattern matching using a predefined set of sensitive data pattern rules to identify at least one sensitive data access included in the response. Responsive to identifying at least one sensitive data access matching one or more of the predefined set of sensitive data pattern rules, the security system agent modifies that the request from the client by marking the at least one sensitive data access as sensitive thereby forming a modified request. The security system agent sends the modified request to the security system thereby causing the security system to process the modified request without access the sensitive data associated with the at least one marked sensitive data access.

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