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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2017
Applicant:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sumit Manmohan Sarin, Maharashtra, IN;
Sumant Modak, Pune, IN;
Amit Shinde, Maharashtra, IN;
Bishnu Chaturvedi, Pune, IN;
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6281 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques describe preventing sensitive data from being misappropriated during a clipboard operation. A copy operation for data being copied to a clipboard is intercepted. Information describing a first application from which the data was copied is retrieved. The data and the information are stored into the clipboard. A paste operation is evaluated based on the data, and the information is evaluated against a policy to determine whether the paste operation should be blocked.