Patent ID: 8181033

Claim:
A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer storage readable medium, comprising: computer code dedicated to data leakage protection that identifies predetermined data from within a larger collection of second data, wherein predetermined data is identified for the purpose of applying data leakage protection; computer code dedicated to data leakage protection that identifies types of operations as predefined types of operations because those operations are associated with data leakage; computer code dedicated to data leakage protection that recognizes an attempt to perform an operation on predetermined data after predetermined data has been identified, wherein the predetermined data includes at least an indication of data signature; computer code dedicated to data leakage protection that recognizes whether a type of the operation attempted includes a predefined type of operation, wherein the predefined type of operation includes at least an encryption operation; and computer code dedicated to data leakage protection that conditionally prevents the operation on the predetermined data if it is determined that the operation may circumvent a data leakage prevention system.