An embodiment for media transit management is provided. The embodiment may include receiving one or more images and one or more pre-set configuration criteria regarding management of an image file. The embodiment may also include monitoring for an attempted sharing of the image file. The embodiment may further include in response to determining each object in the one or more images matches each object in the image file, identifying at least one other user who is attempting to share the image file. The embodiment may also include in response to determining the at least one other user is not authorized to share the image file, analyzing the one or more pre-set configuration criteria correlated with the image file. The embodiment may further include in response to determining the image file does not meet the one or more pre-set configuration criteria, prompting the participating user to respond to a notification.

Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including: receiving, via a messaging application of a user device, a request to recover access to an account of a user of the messaging application; accessing a first object corresponding to a first key; receiving, from a first friend of the user on the messaging application, a second object corresponding to a first portion of a second key; receiving, from a second friend of the user on the messaging application, a third object corresponding to a second portion of the second key; deriving the second key based on the second and third objects; and recovering access to the account of the user based on the first key and the second key.

Generally, this disclosure provides devices, systems, methods and computer readable media for context based switching to a secure OS environment including cloud based data synchronization and filtration. The device may include a storage controller to provide access to the secure OS stored in an initially provisioned state; a context determination module to monitor web site access, classify a transaction between the device and the website and identify a match between the web site and a list of web sites associated with secure OS operation or a match between the transaction classification and a list of transaction types associated with secure OS operation; and an OS switching module to switch from a main OS to the secure OS in response to the identified match. The switch may include updating state data associated with the secure OS, the state data received from a secure cloud-based data synchronization server.

An authentication device is used to create a secure connection between an Internet of Things (IoT) device and a service provider, so that the IoT device is not limited to only the services of one specific provider or the specific services of the provider of the IoT device. In addition, multiple IoT devices purchased from several different providers can all be connected to the same service provider.

Some embodiments provide a method for providing public keys for encrypting data. The method receives (i) a first request from a first source for a public key associated with a particular user and (ii) a second request from a second source for the public key associated with the particular user. In response to the first request, the method distributes a first public key for the particular user to the first source. In response to the second request, the method distributes a second, different public key for the particular user to the second source. Data encrypted with the first public key and data encrypted with the second public key are decrypted by a device of the particular user with a same private key.

A number of novel watermarking applications, and improvements to watermarking methods, are disclosed. Included are techniques for selectively incorporating promotional messages into rendered video content, monitoring whether promotional messages are rendered or skipped, permitting payment for content upon rendering rather than receipt, controlling rendering of video to include or omit adult-themed sections, confirming a person's age by reference to a watermarked identification document, and watermarking digital cinema projections.

The present invention provides for an authenticity marker to be embedded within web page and/or email content which allows a user to validate that the content originates from the true source of the content and is not merely a copy. The method includes a user requesting content in the form of a web page and/or email from a server using a web browser or email client. The server receives the request, retrieves the content and forwards it to an authentication server. The authentication server inserts into the retrieved content a unique fractal icon and/or information only known between the owner of the content and the user.

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing access to records of a database stored on a database server in a cloud database platform are described herein. A data sharing platform may determine a shared view definition for access to the database. The data sharing platform may determine rules that specify criteria that limit access to the records stored by the database. The one or more first rules may be received via a user interface. The data sharing platform may perform, based on the rules, a data access certification process on the records stored by the database to generate a table of certification results. The data sharing platform may generate, based on the table of certification results, and without modifying the records stored by the database, a limited consumer view definition. Based on updates to the records, a new limited consumer view definition may be generated.

A computer-implemented method according to an aspect includes training a cognitive network, utilizing metadata associated with historic data threats, inputting metadata associated with a current data threat into the trained cognitive network, identifying, by the trained cognitive network, one or more stored instances of data determined to be vulnerable to the current data threat, and adjusting one or more security aspects of the one or more stored instances of data determined to be vulnerable to the current data threat.

A method for execution by a computing device to adjust efficiency of storing data in a storage network includes processing a data segment based on a storage approach to produce a processed data segment, the storage approach being based on an estimated overwrite frequency for the data segment. The method continues by error encoding the processed data segment to produce a set of encoded data slices, where a decode threshold number of encoded data slices is needed to recover the processed data segment. The method continues by storing the set of encoded data slices in the memory of the storage network.