Patent ID: 9679157
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of minimizing data security risks, the method 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 metric for the type; and responsive to determining the metric for the type of confidential data exceeding a predetermined metric 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 metric 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 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.