Patent ID: 9049169
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a mobile client device running a mobile operating system; a messaging server of a private computer network and being accessed by the mobile client device for email synchronization from outside the private computer network in accordance with an email synchronization protocol; and a mobile email protection system through which network traffic for the email synchronization between the mobile client device and the messaging server goes through, the mobile email protection system parsing the network traffic to retrieve an email element from an email in the network traffic, comparing the email element to a plurality of monitored contents indicated in one of a plurality of preconfigured compliance templates to identify protected content, inspecting the network traffic for prohibited content that is being transmitted from the mobile client device to the private computer network by scanning the network traffic against a database or listing of monitored contents, blocking the email synchronization when the email element includes a monitored content in the plurality of monitored contents indicated in one of the plurality of preconfigured compliance templates and the mobile client device is not authorized to receive the protected content, and blocking the email synchronization to prevent the prohibited content from entering the private computer network when the network traffic includes a monitored content indicated in the database or listing of monitored contents.