Patent ID: 8612754

Claim:
A method for providing data loss protection of sensitive data using digital fingerprinting, the method comprising: determining a determined number and type of different security levels to assign to each document of a plurality of documents associated with a data loss protection server; assigning the determined number and type of different security levels to each document of a plurality of documents associated with a data loss protection server; storing the plurality of documents in a digital asset management server, wherein only a single copy of each document of plurality of documents is stored in the digital asset management server; sending a query to the digital asset management server from the data loss protection server; receiving a query response by the data loss protection server from the digital asset management server, the query response including a document file; and creating a digital fingerprint of the document file by the data loss protection server, wherein sections of the document file that are common to all security levels are not included in the creating of the digital fingerprint.