Sophos Assigned Patent

Sophos Ltd., Abingdon, Great Britain , has been assigned a patent (10,367,815) developed by Keene, David P., and Donley, Daryl E., Dublin, OH, for a “protecting sensitive information from a secure data store.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for the steps of receiving an indication that a computer facility has access to a secure data store, causing a security parameter of a storage medium local to the computer facility to be assessed, determining if the security parameter is compliant with a security policy relating to computer access of the remote secure data store, and in response to an indication that the security parameter is non-compliant, cause the computer facility to implement an action to prevent further dissemination of information, to disable access to network communications, to implement an action to prevent further dissemination of information, and the like.”

The patent application was filed on August 19, 2016 (15/241,915).