US Patent 9917817 Selective encryption of outgoing data

Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for selective encryption of outgoing data are provided herein. A method includes monitoring a set of outgoing data from a first user, identifying one or more items of sensitive information from the set of outgoing data, encrypting the one or more items of sensitive information to produce one or more items of encrypted sensitive information, and replacing the one or more items of sensitive information with the one or more items of encrypted sensitive information in the set of outgoing data.