” Well, new survey regarding SharePoint security has just echoed this theme, but this time the news is even scarier because the context is from the inside of organizations out, rather than from the outside in
Business…. today is not sustained by a single organization. It is built on a complex eco-system interwoven with vendors on one side and customers on the other. Organizations need to share information not only with internal employees but also externally with contractors, vendors and other...
Not according to recent AIIM research. The "SharePoint Security - A Survey on Compliance and Recommendations to Achieve True Security" whitepaper provides some very interesting points regarding how organizations use SharePoint for secure data storage and how secure your data actually is
Implementing a best practices SharePoint security strategy requires in-depth planning and knowledge of the overall information architecture (IA) design as well as an understanding and awareness of the capabilities available. The members of your organization’s project team may be security experts but not necessary SharePoint security experts so there must be knowledge transfer, demos, and conversations around its capabilities to ensure all team members are on the same page
In just like any company, they have created a good number of custom SharePoint security groups and they don’t really have a true grasp on what sites are secured with these custom SharePoint security groups and what sites are just using the “departmental AD Groups
Show them just what SharePoint can do. #SharePoint #Security
The Challenges of Custom Permissions/Groups You know you need to set up your SharePoint security different from what is offered out of the box, so what should you do?
I like to then ask the business and technical teams to imagine strings connecting sites and site collections to these content databases which will then connect to other areas of SharePoint in the overall hierarchy which will affect areas such as search and even more importantly tie into security (Active Directory \ SharePoint Security Groups, etc.)
From a SharePoint social perspective, you still have the benefit of sitting behind the SharePoint security model -- however with Yammer, things are more limited
As we consider these requests within our organization, I think email will find itself moving closer to the bottom of the list of options for business communication. #SharePoint #Security #privacy #confidnetial #E-mail