Patent ID: 8261058
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: G06F,G16H,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for protecting sensitive data comprising: one or more clients, each client having a data storage and a processor, wherein two or more items of sensitive data are stored within a file on the data storage and the processor extracts the sensitive data items from the file on the data storage, sends the extracted data items to a server for storage, receives a pointer for each extracted data item indicating where the extracted data item has been stored and replaces the extracted items of sensitive data stored in the file on the data storage with the pointers; the server communicably coupled to the one or more clients, wherein the server receives the extracted data items from the client, stores the extracted data items to a secure storage, generates the pointer for each extracted data item and sends the pointers to the client; and wherein the processor and the server protect the sensitive data items within the file by restricting subsequent access to and use of the sensitive data items via the pointers by: