Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method, system, and storage medium for adaptive monitoring and filtering traffic to and from social networking sites
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Application No.: US15357089Application Date: 2016-11-21
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Publication No.: US10454948B2Publication Date: 2019-10-22
- Inventor: Cameron Blair Cooper , Christopher Lee Richter
- Applicant: Proofpoint, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Proofpoint, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Proofpoint, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Sprinkle IP Law Group
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L12/58 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L29/08 ; G06Q50/00

Abstract:
Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system, method, and computer readable storage medium storing computer instructions for implementing a Socialware architecture encompassing a suite of applications for continuously and adaptively monitoring and filtering traffic to and from social networking sites, particularly useful in an enterprise computing environment. In some embodiments, an appliance may be coupled to a proxy server for providing a plurality of Socialware services, including analyzing, logging, and reporting on traffic to and from social networking sites. Some embodiments may allow a user to report, identify, and prevent malicious and potentially malicious content and/or activity by another user. Some embodiments may encrypt outgoing traffic to and decrypt incoming traffic from social networking sites. Some embodiments may provide an enterprise user to define and restrict certain social networking activities outside of the enterprise computing environment.
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