Patent ID: 8776206

Claim:
A system for controlling data transfers in a network comprising: a protective device for controlling data transfers in the network comprising; a first importing device coupled to said network and that is configured for identifying protected data residing in computer operating system files; a second importing device coupled to said network for identifying excluded data and wherein excluded data is excluded from the protected data; an outgoing transmission inspection/comparing device coupled to said network to read and inspect all content of a data transmission out of said network, including protected and excluded content, said outgoing transmission inspection/comparing device for comparing all content anywhere in a data stream to be transmitted out of said network with said protected data, said outgoing transmission inspection/comparing device detecting the presence of protected data in said content in said outgoing transmission, said outgoing transmission inspection/comparing device indicating a security breach when at least a threshold amount of said detected protected data of said content to be transmitted matches data of said protected data, wherein the outgoing transmission is interrupted when the threshold amount of protected data is found, and the outgoing transmission that is not a part of the threshold amount of protected data is transmitted out of the network; an administrator interface for defining on which data streams said inspection device will perform certain pre-defined actions; said administrator interface defining data streams by setting one or more attributes, including presence of encryption.