Patent ID: 11934682
Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having instructions stored thereon that enable at least one processor to perform a method upon execution of the instructions, the method comprising:
scanning datasets of distinct line-of-business computer systems of an enterprise for sensitive data elements;
determining, for each sensitive data element of the sensitive data elements, a movement of the sensitive data elements, wherein a first sensitive data element indicates a first movement of data and a second sensitive data element indicates a second movement of data, wherein the first movement and the second movement are across different computing environments; and
determine that the sensitive data elements are being communicated to a target computing environment; and
in response to determining that the sensitive data elements are being communicated to the target computing environment, protecting the sensitive data elements based in part on a source of the data elements, the target computing environment, and on a level of sensitivity of each data element of the sensitive data elements, wherein protecting the sensitive data elements includes:
determining whether to hash, anonymize, or encrypt at least a portion of the first data element based on the first movement of data and the target computing environment;
determining whether to hash, anonymize, or encrypt at least a portion of the second data element based on the second movement of data and the target computing environment; and
hashing, anonymizing, or encrypting at least a portion of the first data element and at least a portion of the second data element based on the determination.