Patent ID: 9367703
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for forcing an application to store data in a secure storage location, the method comprising: identifying, by a policy engine executed by a first computing device, a first application executed by the first computing device as a trusted application based on user credentials of a user; directing, by a file system filter driver, responsive to the identification of the first application as the trusted application, the first computing device to write a first set of data to a secure storage location; intercepting, by the file system filter driver, a first request of the first application to read a file from an unsecure storage location; identifying, by the policy engine, a second application executed by the first computing device as a non-trusted application; directing, by the file system filter driver, responsive to the identification of the second application as the non-trusted application, the first computing device to write a second set of data to the unsecure storage location; and providing, by the file system filter driver, responsive to the identification of the first application as the trusted application, read-only access to the file to the first application.