1. A system for providing an association between a system's meta-tagged data objects and a list of terms, the association indicating which objects are and are not covered by a given policy, comprising: a processor operable to obtain a list of terms and a policy, the policy including one or more of the terms and at least one rule, the at least one rule comprising one or more of: a user category, an action, and a data category, the user category indicating at least one applicable user for the at least one rule, the action specifying at least one application that is either permitted or denied by the at least one rule, the data category indicating a type of data object that is governed by the at least one rule, the processor further operable to identify a plurality of meta-tags used in a system and to build one or more mappings between the terms and the meta-tags, the processor further operable to identify all system data objects in the system having one or more meta-tags and create for each meta-tag of each system data object identified, an association between the system data object and the one or more terms to which the meta-tag is mapped, the association indicating whether the system data object is or is not covered by the policy by determining whether there exists the at least one rule in the policy whose terms for the user category, the action and the data category match terms of the system data objects; and a data store operable to store the association.