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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2014
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sarin Sumit Manmohan, Pune, IN;
Ravindra Daramwar, Nanded, IN;
Jogesh Sharma, Jammu and Kashmir, IN;
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for preventing data loss over virtualized networks may include (1) receiving, by a data loss prevention callout driver registered to a switch, a network packet from a virtual machine, (2) identifying, by the data loss prevention callout driver registered to the switch, flow context information that specifies a context associated with transmitting the network packet, (3) providing the flow context information and the network packet to a data loss prevention service, and (4) applying, by the data loss prevention service, a data loss prevention policy to the network packet based on the flow context information. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.