Redmond Magazine webinar presented on July 9, 2014 on the topic of SharePoint security and governance, with the help of Shaun Nichols (@sharepointgiant), Lead Solutions Engineer at Metalogix.
4. For over a decade, Metalogix has developed the
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Over 14,000 clients rely on Metalogix tools every
minute of every day to monitor, migrate, store,
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collaboration platforms.
We are committed to your
Success with SharePoint!
7. Readiness
o How important is governance in your
organization/company today?
o Do you know who is getting access to what information?
o Do you store any financial or legal records in SharePoint?
o Do you know who can access or has accessed it?
o Do you have compliance regulations that you have to adhere to?
o If there was a security breach, who would be held responsible?
o Do you regularly run audits on usage, security, content, or permissions?
o Do you have an IS department that is asking for reports?
o How do you respond to compliance requirements for Audits?
o What does the process look like today?
12. A 2012 CIO survey by Gartner shows an increasing
push in collaboration, analytics, and cloud computing.
They predict that by 2016, 20% of CIOs in regulated
industries will lose their jobs for failing to implement the
discipline of information governance successfully.
13. Technical Governance Means…
Logins work
Data is secure
System performs well
Metadata applied
End users can quickly find their content
Storage is optimized
Content lifecycles in place, regularly reviewed
Legal and regulatory requirements being met
14. Corporate IT SharePoint Content
Strategies
Priorities
Budgets
Customers
Facilities
Hardware
Software
Assurance
Test
Support
Ownership
Permissions
Roles
Storage
Architecture
Retention
Auditing
Reporting
Permissions
Ownership
Requirements
Retention
Search
Decommission
15. Survey says….
36% of SharePoint users are
breaching security policies
(CMSWire)
Only 18% of enterprises use
technical controls to prevent
access to sensitive
information. Most — 73
percent — rely on written
policies or informal
understandings with their
workforce (CMSWire)
60% of organizations have yet
to bring SharePoint into line
with existing data compliance
policies. (AIIM)
Two-thirds of SharePoint-using companies in a
recent survey have admitted to having ‘no active
security policy’ in place (Emedia)
A survey revealed that 79% of respondents stored
sensitive or confidential information on their
SharePoint platform (CMSWire)
16. What are the 5 most
common SharePoint
security concerns?
17. 1. Failure to define (and communicate)
policies and procedures.
Start with non-technical elements
Develop a Security Policy
Implement a training plan for end users
Develop a strategy for ensuring
users know what content
is confidential
34% of IT administrators said that
they'd "sneaked a peek" at
documents they weren't
authorized to view, including
employee details and salary
information (DarkReading)
18. 2. Failure to implement any kind of
permissions best practices.
Apply permissions using Least Privileged principles
Don’t give users Direct Access
Embrace SharePoint Groups and/or Active Directory Groups
Ensure Appropriate Use of the Authenticated Users Group
Clean up Orphan Users
Use Broken Inheritance Responsibly
Revoke permissions quickly
19. 3. Failure to regularly audit access
to content and sites.
Are we adhering to Compliance or Governance requirements?
Who has been accessing specific content?
How often are specific sites being accessed?
What features of SharePoint are being used?
Are we managing the volume of log data?
20. 4. Failure to monitor changes to security
settings.
SharePoint security changes over time
Ensure users are continuing to adhere to
security policies
Prevent users from causing havoc
We need to plan how we will stay on top of
changes
21. 5. Failure to empower users and admins with
the right permissions.
Find your responsible business content owners
Enable and Equip them to manage access to their
content
Ensure management access is limited to those
with appropriate permissions
Segment your administration responsibilities –
Power Users, business owners
23. Apply the Top 5 Security Essentials
using ControlPoint
Easily make changes to or revoke permissions across
any scope – even between farms
Audit Permissions to ensure only the right people
have access
Meet compliance and governance requirements
with regular scheduled reports
Monitor what users are doing – receive Alerts for unexpected
security changes
Permissions Management wizard for the casual user
27. Permissions
Reporting
Auditing
Compliance
ControlPoint: Security and Compliance
BenefitsObjectives
• Policy driven security and permissions
across SharePoint farms
• Seamless extension to out-of-the-box
security administration
• Increased compliance insight and
transparency
• Mitigate risk of data loss due
unauthorized access to
content
• Provide audit trails of content
access
• Provide automation of
governance policies
28. Best Practices
Make governance a priority
Look at your systems holistically (a business view),
regardless of where the servers sit
Clarify and document your permissions, information
architecture, templates, content types, taxonomy --
and ownership of each
First define what policies, procedures, and metrics
are needed to manage your environment, and then
look at what is possible across your various tools
and platforms
Demo –
Permissions Report
Highlight how someone gets permissions
Show users with Direct Permissions
Show Cleanup User Permissions
Show Authenticated Users
Orphan User
Revoke Permissions
From pervious slide – show tagging sites to show confidential, etc
Demo
Audit log report
Site or Site Collection features
Talk about archiving the audit log
Demo
CP alerts for permissions changes - Receive alerts when changes are made
CP policies - Prevent users from causing havoc
Cleanup permissions – like users with direct permissions