Patent ID: 8769613

Claim:
A method of securing sensitive data in a cloud computing system, the method comprising: monitoring events at a node in the system; on detection of an event of a specified type, interrupting a message associated with the event; selecting a security template from a set of security templates based on data in the message and at least one parameter associated with the message, the at least one parameter being one of: a User ID, a Session ID, a Server Location, a channel type, a Device ID, a Transaction Type, or a time, the security template including a location of at least one data element within the data in the message and an obfuscation method to be applied to the at least one data element; applying the obfuscation method to the at least one data element within the data in the message according to the selected security template to create modified data; inserting the modified data into the interrupted message in place of the data in the message; and releasing the message.