US Patent 12008130 Secure data access management system

Systems and methods are provided for management of access to data by maintaining the lineage of access metadata as data is queried, processed, and stored in a computing environment. Data stored within a computing environment may be tagged or otherwise associated with metadata representing an access categorization of the data. When the data is used to create new data sets, the access categorizations of the base data are retained, and metadata representing an access categorization of the created data sets is generated based on the access categorizations of the base data. The created data may be stored in a location according to the access categorization.