13. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon data representing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: capturing an object being transmitted over a network; and parsing the object to determine if one or more of a plurality of attributes appear within the object, wherein the parsing includes, determining that a regular expression appears in the object, the regular expression belonging to a group of one or more regular expressions associated with a specific attribute, wherein a first attribute corresponds to a presence of a first regular expression and a second attribute corresponds to a presence of multiple regular expressions; removing the specific attribute from the plurality of attributes searched for within the object; and setting an attribute field of a tag containing metadata related to the captured object, wherein the attribute field identifies the presence of the specific attribute in the captured object.
13. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon data representing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: capturing an object being transmitted over a network; and parsing the object to determine if one or more of a plurality of attributes appear within the object, wherein the parsing includes, determining that a regular expression appears in the object, the regular expression belonging to a group of one or more regular expressions associated with a specific attribute, wherein a first attribute corresponds to a presence of a first regular expression and a second attribute corresponds to a presence of multiple regular expressions; removing the specific attribute from the plurality of attributes searched for within the object; and setting an attribute field of a tag containing metadata related to the captured object, wherein the attribute field identifies the presence of the specific attribute in the captured object. 17. The machine readable medium of claim 13 , wherein the attribute comprises one of a credit card number credit card number attribute, a phone number attribute, an email addresses attribute, a bank routing number attribute, a social security number attribute, a confidentiality marker attribute, a web site attribute, an executive officers list attribute, a medical condition attribute, a medical diagnoses attribute, a confidential project name attribute, and a salary or compensation attribute.