US 12,493,712 B2
Data owner controls in DLP
Pooja Deshmukh, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/566,039.
Application 17/566,039 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/132,499, filed on Dec. 23, 2020, granted, now 11,863,674.
Prior Publication US 2022/0198055 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 21/6245 (2013.01) [G06F 16/2272 (2019.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving an index of data for exact data matching, wherein the index includes Personally Identifiable Information (PII);
receiving policy related to actions to perform for any violations associated with the exact data matching;
loading the index and the policy into memory;
monitoring traffic for violations, wherein the violations include detection of any values in the index in the traffic, wherein the monitoring is continuous inline monitoring of the index in real-time; and
performing an action responsive to any violations and associated policy,
wherein the index is based on a one-way hash to transform the data into a digest, such that the data is unreadable by a cloud-based system, wherein the data is one or more look up tables is provided by a virtual appliance, and wherein the virtual appliance is auto-updated via a cloud feed node.