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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2013
Method and system for detecting and protecting against potential data loss from unknown applications
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rupesh Khetawat, Pune, IN;
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for detecting and protecting against potential data loss from unknown applications is described. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting, by a client computing device, that a local application has accessed a document on the client computing device, determining that the document contains sensitive data according to one or more endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) polices, determining that the local application and a type of the document is not included in a whitelist of the DLP policies, capturing visual data pertaining to one or more operations that the application performs on the document, and sending the captured visual data to a server.