1. A computerized method for automatically providing a security access policy to an electronic document in a document management system, the method comprising: (a1) associating metadata with the document, the metadata comprising one or more attributes of the document; (b1) configuring security access policies to be applied to documents in the document management system, including specifying one or more metadata rules governing application of security access policies to the documents; and (c1) determining the security access policy to be applied to the document to be added to the document management system based on said one or more metadata rules and the metadata associated with the document.