US 2016/0078245 A1 · DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS

Abstract

Data storage systems are disclosed for automatically generating encryption rules based on a set of training files that are known to include sensitive information. The system may use a number of heuristic algorithms to generate one or more encryption rules for determining whether a file includes sensitive information. Further, the system may apply the heuristic algorithms to the content of the files, as determined by using natural language processing algorithms, to generate the encryption rules. Moreover, systems are disclosed that are capable of automatically determining whether to encrypt a file based on the generated encryption rules. The content of the file may be determined using natural language processing algorithms and then the encryption rules may be applied to the content of the file to determine whether to encrypt the file.

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A data storage system comprising:

a content analyzer comprising computer hardware, the content analyzer configured to:
access a set of training files that include content designated as sensitive information;
and
use one or more processing algorithms with respect to the set of training files to obtain a set of data tokens for each training file;
and
an encryption rules generator comprising computer hardware, the encryption rules generator configured to use one or more algorithms to determine a set of encryption rules based on the set of data tokens obtained for each training file.

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A method of automatically generating encryption rules using machine learning techniques, the method comprising:

accessing, by a rules generation system comprising computer hardware, a set of one or more training files that include content designated as sensitive information;
applying, by the rules generation system, one or more processing algorithms to each training file included in the set of training files to obtain a set of data tokens for each training file, wherein each of the set of data tokens for a training file corresponds to a portion of the training file;
applying, by the rules generation system, one or more algorithms to the set of data tokens for each training file to determine a set of encryption rules for identifying files with sensitive information;
and
storing the set of encryption rules in an encryption rules repository accessible for one or more systems for determining whether to encrypt a file.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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