Patent ID: 8495368

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying, by a data loss prevention system, content to be scanned for confidential information, wherein the content is associated with a content management system; determining, by the data loss prevention system, whether the content includes confidential information, the determining being based on at least one data loss prevention policy; when the content includes confidential information, creating, by the data loss prevention system, a content management recommendation based on a type of the content management system, the content management recommendation comprising at least one of a recommendation pertaining to a storage of the content and a recommendation pertaining to a backup of the content, wherein when the type of the content management system is a storage type, creating the content management recommendation based on the type of the content management system comprises creating the content management recommendation to comprise the recommendation pertaining to the storage of the content, wherein the recommendation pertaining to the storage of the content comprises an assignment of one or more high tiers in a storage system to store the confidential information; and providing, by the data loss prevention system, the content management recommendation to the content management system.