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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2020
Bicdroid Inc., Petersburg, CA;
BICDROID INC., Petersburg, CA;
Abstract
Systems and method are provided for data self-protection. The systems and methods may involve installing a sentry on a computer system, the sentry including a file system filter installed on a kernel of that computer system; providing a central sentry platform in communication with the sentry, operating the central sentry platform to send a data self-protection policy to the sentry, the data self-protection policy being encrypted so that it can only be modified by the central sentry platform; operating the file system filter to control access to encrypted data stored on the computer system, by, for each process making a file access request to the encrypted data, the file system filter receiving and handling that file access request according to the data self-protection policy; and, operating the central sentry platform to monitor the sentry and to receive information from the sentry regarding access to the encrypted data.