US Patent 8181036 Extrusion detection of obfuscated content

Techniques are disclosed that enable extrusion detection (i.e., outgoing confidential information from an enterprise or other entity). The techniques operate to detect outgoing confidential information at the gateway and/or the client, even if that confidential information is encrypted, compressed, or otherwise obfuscated before transmission (e.g., via email or to a portable storage media such as a memory stick).