Confidential information leak prevention system and confidential information leak prevention method

A confidential information leak prevention system comprising:

• an application behavior controlling unit that controls behavior of an object application to be controlled;
• a process content determining unit that determines a content of an access process from an application to a device;
• a controlled object determining unit that determines whether or not the application is the object application to be controlled, in accordance with a result of the determination by the process content determining unit and whether or not the application is activated by a launcher program;
• and
• an access controlling unit that disallows the application to access the device, when the application is not the object application to be controlled as a result of the determination by the controlled object determining unit.

A confidential information leak prevention method comprising:

• determining a content of an access process from an application to a device;
• specifying an application that has accessed the device, in accordance with a result of the determination, and determining whether or not the application is an object application to be controlled based on whether or not the application is activated by a launcher program;
• and
• disallowing the application to access the device, when the application is not the object application to be controlled as a result of the determination as to whether or not the application is the object application to be controlled.