Patent ID: 9679158
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of minimizing data security risks, comprising: determining a number and type of confidential data stored in a computing environment to generate a metric for the type of confidential data in the computing environment, the type of confidential data determined from a plurality of types comprising at least social security number (SSN), patient data, personal information, and credit card number; comparing the metric of the type of confidential data to a predetermined threshold for the type; and responsive to determining the metric for the type of confidential data exceeding a predetermined threshold for the type, performing an action to prevent more entries of the type of confidential data to be stored in the computing environment, the metric measured by at least one of a count of the type of confidential data in the computing environment and a volume size taken up by the type of confidential data in the computing environment, the predetermined threshold being different for different types of confidential data in the computing environment, the performing an action to prevent more entries of the type of confidential data in the computing environment comprising closing an access port in the computing environment to requests associated with new data of the type of confidential data, and automatically performing removal of data of the type stored in the computing environment to make room for accepting said more entries of the type of confidential data.