Patent ID: 8141159
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for computer workstation based information protection, the method comprising: a) monitoring a user's actions on said computer workstation; b) detecting whether content in use at said workstation in association with said actions being monitored comprises confidential information, said detecting comprising said workstation performing a statistical analysis of said content in use by said user using identifiers from a content identifier database, said statistical analysis using said identifiers to associate said content with respective confidential information, said confidential information being associated with respective predefined policies; c) analyzing said monitored action with respect to a respective pre-defined policy associated with any confidential information identified by said analysis as being associated with said content in use at said workstation, to determine whether said actions prejudice said confidential information; and d) executing said policy in accordance with the results of said determination to control said actions; wherein said information protection comprises protecting information held within a software data processing application able to process said information, wherein said software data processing application authenticates itself to a server before at least some of the sessions wherein said authentication depends on a classification level assigned to said protected information, wherein connection to at least two servers are required in order to determine said policy and wherein said software data processing application is entangled with said server's software, such that a functioning stand-alone copy of said software data processing application does not exist.