Symantec Assigned Two Patents

Encrypted backup to protect files from encryption attacks
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,990,511) developed by Dreyfus, Jonathan, Pleasanton, CA, for a “using encrypted backup to protect files from encryption attacks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure relates to protecting files from attacks by malicious encryption programs. According to one embodiment, an endpoint system detects access to a file by an application and creates a copy of the file in temporary storage. The endpoint system determines whether the application has encrypted the file, and upon determining that the application has encrypted the file, the endpoint system creates an encrypted backup copy of the file using the copy in temporary storage and a trusted key and stores the encrypted backup copy in a secure storage location.”

The patent application was filed on November 20, 2015 (14/947,781).

Data loss prevention for cloud sync application
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,928,373) developed by Sarin, Sumit Manmohan, and Apte, Kedar V., Pune, India, for a “technique for data loss prevention for a cloud sync application.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Techniques describe preventing sensitive data from being misappropriated during an operation performed by a cloud synchronization application. A request from a cloud sync application to upload a file to a cloud storage service is intercepted. The file is currently stored on a client computer of an enterprise network. An account associated with the request is identified. The file is evaluated based on a data loss prevention policy and the account associated with the request. The request is blocked based on the evaluation.”

The patent application was filed on April 16, 2015 (14/688,158).