Content protection should be tied into access certification. It seems that companies are now improving their compliance by implementing provisioning technologies according to the Burton Group. Considering how hard it is to control whom should have access to what, I believe that a coupling of provisioning tools and DLP is the next logical step.

The content custodian should be notified of the type of content by the DLP system, and the choices should be presented to the custodian for protection measures and marrying this with provisioning systems would lessen the burden on the custodian.