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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2014
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sourabh Satish, Fremont, CA (US);
Brian Hernacki, San Carlos, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for securing confidential data related to a user in a computer is described. In one example, rules are obtained that provide a representation of the confidential data. A storage system in the computer is searched using the rules to detect a file having at least a portion of the confidential data. The file is encrypted the in-place within the storage system using symmetric encryption based on a secret associated with the user.
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