Patent ID: 8127360

Claim:
A method for detecting leakage of sensitive information from a computer system comprising: identifying data entered into the computer system as sensitive data; tracking access to the sensitive data within the computer system, in the event the access is associated with a system egress point; identifying, in response to access associated with the system egress point, at least one condition that compromises the security of the sensitive data, wherein the at least one condition comprises access by an unauthorized process to sensitive data; and taking an appropriate action to protect the sensitive data in view of the at least one condition, wherein the appropriate action comprises at least one of terminating the application obfuscating the sensitive data, terminating the application that did not have focus of the sensitive data at time of input into the computer system that is processing the sensitive data, terminating the application with a non-visible window that is processing the sensitive data, terminating the hidden process that is processing the sensitive data, or blocking at least one communication port of the computer system.