Symantec Corporation

Vipul Goel

Sumesh Jaiswal

Dhananjay Namdeo Dodke

Amit Dhotre

Hemant Kumar

A computer-implemented method for authenticating whole disk encryption systems may include (i) detecting, by a computing device, an attempt to initiate a boot process on the computing device, (ii) verifying, by the computing device, an initial decryption key, (iii) decrypting, by the computing device, an initial set of software required to boot crucial functions of the computing device using the initial decryption key, (iv) detecting, by the computing device, a secondary device running an authentication application, (v) receiving, by the computing device, a second decryption key from the authentication application on the secondary device, and (vi) completing the boot process on the computing device based on a security policy associated with the second decryption key. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for authenticating whole disk encryption systems

A computer-implemented method for data loss prevention of unidentifiable and unsupported object types may include (1) monitoring, through at least one filter, data input to an application during execution, (2) scanning, through a data loss prevention scanner, the data input to the application to detect whether the data includes sensitive data that is protected by a data loss prevention policy, (3) flagging, based on the scanning, the application as having accessed the sensitive data that is protected by the data loss prevention policy, (4) detecting that the application is requesting to output a data object in a format that obscures underlying content, and (5) performing, by a data loss prevention program, a remedial action to prevent loss of the sensitive data based on both flagging the application and detecting that the application is requesting to output the data object in the format that obscures underlying content.

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Vipul Goel