Patent 9591023 was granted and assigned to Amazon on March, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus for deterring exfiltration of data from are provided. In the method and apparatus, it is determined that data is to be inflated. A request for access to data is received and data responsive to the request is retrieved. Spurious data is also generated and provided together with the responsive data in response to the request.