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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
May. 09, 2014
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mukund Agrawal, Maharashtra, IN;
SYMANTEC CORPORATION, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for detecting violations of data loss prevention (DLP) policies based on reputation scores. The DLP agent monitors outbound data transfers performed by a computing system. The DLP agent classifies the outbound data transfers based on data types. The DLP agent determines reputations source for the outbound data transfers to a destination entity based on the classifying and the destination entity, the first outbound data transfer being a first data type and the second outbound data transfer being a second data type. The DLP agent compares the first reputation score and the second reputation score against a reputation threshold to detect violations of a DLP policy. At least one of remedial operations or reporting operations is performed in response to the detected violations.