System and method for protecting electronic documents containing confidential information from unauthorized access

A system for protecting electronic documents containing confidential information, the system comprising:

• a hardware processor configured to:
• assign one or more electronic marks to a document, wherein the one or more electronic marks are assigned based on a context of the document;
• monitor continuously and in real-time access activity with respect to the document;
• in response to receiving a request from a user to access the document, check permissions to access the document by analyzing metadata of the document and by analyzing one or more access rules, wherein the metadata includes the one or more electronic marks, and wherein the one or more access rules links a list of permitted electronic marks to one or more users;
• deny access to the document and send a notification to a server indicating an attempted unauthorized access to the document, in response to determining that the one or more electronic marks are not included in the list of permitted electronic marks for the user requesting the access to the document;
• analyze attributes of the one or more electronic marks, in response to determining that the one or more electronic marks are included in the list of permitted electronic marks;
• automatically decrypt the document if an attribute of containerization is indicated in the one or more electronic marks;
• provide access to the document in accordance with the attributes of the one or more electronic marks;
• and
• automatically assign a new electronic mark to the document when the document is moved from one folder to another.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions for protecting electronic documents containing confidential information, including instructions for:

• assigning one or more electronic marks to a document, wherein the one or more electronic marks are assigned based on a context of the document;
• monitoring continuously and in real-time access activity with respect to the document;
• in response to receiving a request from a user to access the document, checking permissions to access the document by analyzing metadata of the document and by analyzing one or more access rules, wherein the metadata includes the one or more electronic marks, and wherein the one or more access rules links a list of permitted electronic marks to one or more users;
• denying access to the document and sending a notification to a server indicating an attempted unauthorized access to the document, in response to determining that the one or more electronic marks are not included in the list of permitted electronic marks for the user requesting the access to the document;
• analyzing attributes of the one or more electronic marks, in response to determining that the one or more electronic marks are included in the list of permitted electronic marks;
• automatically decrypting the document if an attribute of containerization is indicated in the one or more electronic marks;
• and
• providing access to the document in accordance with the attributes of the one or more electronic marks;
• and
• automatically assigning a new electronic mark to the document when the document is moved from one folder to another.