| CPC G06F 21/6245 (2013.01) [G06F 16/2272 (2019.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |

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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.
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