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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2017
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ilya Sokolov, Boston, MA (US);
Lei Gu, Bedford, MA (US);
Jason Holler, Reston, VA (US);
Tim van der Horst, Springville, UT (US);
NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for enforcing privacy in cloud security may include (i) identifying, by a computing device, a set of files in a backup process for a cloud service, (ii) determining, by the computing device, that at least one file in the set of files is a private file, (iii) modifying, by the computing device encrypting the private file, the set of files in the backup process, (iv) completing the backup process for the cloud service with the modified set of files, and (v) enforcing a security policy of the cloud service based on a scan of file hashes. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.