Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for data security

#The following generally relates to data security.

#Data security continues to be of growing importance. Adversarial parties, also called hackers, attempt to access data networks and data against the wishes of the owners of the data networks and the data. Adversarial parties may wish to steal confidential information, personal information, business information, or other types of information. The stealing of information is a global and lucrative business resulting in an increase of digital crime.

#Typically, to defend or prevent such data attacks, a firewall is put in place and the data is encrypted. Different types of firewalls may be used, such as a network layer or packet filter, an application-layer firewall, a proxy server firewall, and firewalls with network address translation functionality.

#Embodiments will now be described by way of example only with reference to the appended drawings wherein:

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a continuous active data security system interacting with the Internet or a server network, or both.

#FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an example embodiment of a computing system for continuous active security, including example components of the computing system.

#It will be appreciated that for simplicity and clarity of illustration, where considered appropriate, reference numerals may be repeated among the figures to indicate corresponding or analogous elements. In addition, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the example embodiments described herein. However, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the example embodiments described herein may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known methods, procedures and components have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the example embodiments described herein. Also, the description is not to be considered as limiting the scope of the example embodiments described herein.

#In many server network systems, data is stored on the servers for authorized users to access, view, edit, download, or more. The data is, in many cases, intended only for certain users to access and it is intended that other users are prohibited to access such data. Firewall and encryption security measures are typically put into place to allow the authorized users to access the data, but to prohibit other users for accessing the data.

#It is recognized that an adversary, also called an attacker, hacker, security hacker, and computer criminal, may be able to overcome the firewall and encryption security measures to gain access to the data.