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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2015
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Carey S. Nachenberg, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for determining that files found on client devices comprise sensitive information may include (1) maintaining, on a server, a set of representations of files that have been classified as sensitive according to a data loss prevention policy, (2) receiving, from a client device, a message that includes a representation of a file on the client device, (3) determining that the representation of the file on the client device matches the representation of a sensitive file from the set of representations of files, (4) concluding, based on the representation of the file on the client device matching the representation of the sensitive file, that the file on the client device includes sensitive information, and (5) performing a security action in response to concluding that the file on the client device includes the sensitive information. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.