Patent ID: 8572758

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing program instructions to implement: content indexing software, wherein the context indexing software is executable by a computer system to index a plurality of files, wherein for each respective file of the plurality of files, said indexing includes determining contents of the respective file and creating corresponding content indexing (CI) metadata for the respective file which describes the contents of the respective file and enables search operations to be performed on the respective file without accessing the contents of the respective file; and data loss prevention software, wherein the data loss prevention software is executable by the computer system to: monitor the plurality of files for data loss prevention, wherein said monitoring includes detecting that a particular file of the plurality of files presents a data loss risk; in response to said detecting that the particular file presents the data loss risk: query the content indexing software to discover the corresponding CI metadata for the particular file; and sequester the particular file and the corresponding CI metadata for the particular file, wherein in performing said sequestering the data loss prevention software is executable by the computer system to apply a common sequestration rule to both the particular file and to the corresponding CI metadata for the particular file.