Throughout the drawings, identical reference characters and descriptions indicate similar, but not necessarily identical, elements. While the exemplary embodiments described herein are susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments have been shown by way of example in the drawings and will be described in detail herein. However, the exemplary embodiments described herein are not intended to be limited to the particular forms disclosed. Rather, the instant disclosure covers all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the scope of the appended claims.

The present disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for data loss prevention of unidentifiable and unsupported object types. As will be explained in greater detail below, the systems and methods disclosed herein may overcome limitations of other data loss prevention systems that failed to prevent the leaking of sensitive data through one or more file formats, or data object formats, that the systems could not scan or parse. For example, image files may display text and yet traditional data loss prevention systems may have failed to parse the text within the images, because the text was not encoded in a computer readable format as a string. Moreover, in some examples, performing optical character recognition to parse the text may be overly burdensome and inefficient, especially if most images do not include text, much less sensitive data. To overcome these and other problems, the disclosed systems and methods may monitor whether applications access sensitive data and then flag those applications that do access sensitive data.