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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2019
Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Craig David Schmugar, Beaverton, OR (US);
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and media for protecting computer systems from user-created objects are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: detecting, at a second user device, that an object has been accessed on the second user device; determining whether an exception has occurred by scanning the object on the second user device; in response to determining that the exception has occurred, transmitting, from the second user device to a server, a request for a security policy to be applied by the second user device in connection with the object, wherein the request includes an identifier of the object; receiving, from the server, the security policy; determining, based on the security policy, that the object was created by a first user device associated with an organization the second user device is also associated with; determining whether to allow the object to be accessed by the second user device based on the security policy; and in response to determining that the object is allowed to be accessed, allowing the object to be accessed on the second user device.