If you have read my previous post “Who’s next? Bill Gates?”, then, you may think I am going crazy. Talking about Bill Gates and saying Excel is dead is absurd! Surely, Excel is, and remains, one of the key Microsoft products. The title is very similar to the BI is dead one, provocative… But in a sense… READ MORE
One of the biggest concerns companies have out there is that by switching to SharePoint, companies will loose the ability to keep private data private. This is an absolutely wrong assumption. In fact, SharePoint is rock solid when it comes to security and security configuration. It uses a concept called “Security Trimming”. I personally call it… READ MORE
When managing a SharePoint solution, there are an infinite number of ‘best practice guides’ to resort to. On one hand, some are written by knowledgeable and reputable authors, and on the other, they are written by basement System Administrators. In reality, it is hard to know what information is reliable and what is not. Managing… READ MORE
Last year Paul Olenick, Microsoft MVP, published a blog all about Delve and the Office Graph for the European SharePoint Conference. In that post, Paul included one paragraph about how to exclude content from Delve. In this blog we’ll explore that topic more deeply in terms of Privacy, Security and Compliance with Delve.
Security is a real issue when we are discussing SharePoint Management. You know that. No wonder one of the most common mistakes enterprises are facing when dealing with SharePoint, is having end users with more access privileges to documents that they should.
It seems a simple problem to solve, but the reality of controlling employee’s access to confidential content, and making sure their access is not too broad, is a challenge for many.
That is why I decided to include, as one of the coverage points of our SharePoint Document Management blog series, some tips about SharePoint permissions, sharing how to give access to resources correctly, how to prevent SharePoint security breaches, and how to plan your permissions without compromising your document management and automation system in SharePoint.
With the widespread growth of cloud applications, we surveyed organizations to look at adoption of the Microsoft Office 365 platform. The survey addressed how organizations are utilizing Office 365 and SharePoint, where they have limitations, what applications they are using from the platform, and how organizations perceive the security of Office 365 for controlling sensitive data.
Addressing the Fastest Growing Security Concern Facing Organizations Today With an Assessment Tool That Scores Insider Threat Vulnerabilities
It’s that time of year again when analysts, journalists and companies try to predict the year ahead. I’d like to throw my opinion into the ring to offer some practical predictions for 2014 in the content compliance and security space.
At the European SharePoint Confernece last month HiSoftware announced the release of Security Sheriff™ SP Version 3.0 for SharePoint. It marks a significant step forward in helping organizations to ensure SharePoint content security, encryption, tracking and asset management.
I was a guest speaker on a general SharePoint Security Webcast today, which was great fun. On the agenda was security of SharePoint relating to mobile devices. Unfortunately, the session did not manage to get into that topic, and I was so keen to talk about it. To counter, I’ve provided an article written today which talks about how personal devices as part of Consumerization have impacted SharePoint, some features available to mobile users, what implications are there in terms of security and finally a look at what Support needs to address.
