Tag Archive: Security

Nov 07

Auditing Access to Confidential Document Libraries in SharePoint

As more information makes its way into SharePoint I’m increasingly asked how to establish an audit trail of access to document libraries containing confidential information.  This is a requirement for many types of information subject to compliance regulations like patient data in HIPAA. In this post I’ll show you how to use the audit capability …

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Oct 31

Copy permission to a new user in SharePoint

One of the common tasks of a SharePoint admin in any organization I maintain permissions across their farms for users. But what happens when a user leaves your organization and you wish to copy or clone the permissions to the new employee? Well out of the SharePoint box you cannot do this but one of …

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Sep 29

Everything you need to know about managing SharePoint permission on a hybrid environment Webinar

October 24th 12 Noon EDT 5pm BST Registration Link In this webcast, Brett Lonsdale and Dave Coleman will guide you through the secrets involved when managing your on-premises and Office 365 SharePoint permissions. You will learn how to successfully protect your content on both locations, and what you need to be prepared for. SharePoint permissions …

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Sep 22

SharePoint Data Security Best Practices part 2

This is the recording of part 2 of our Sharepoint data security best practices webinar with Fredd Thrasher lots of great information and tips for securing your SharePoint. I will also be posting the Slidedecks later But first about Fredd:- Fredd Thrasher, Ph.D., Vice President for Business Systems, Mission Support Business Unit, SAIC, Inc. Among …

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Sep 15

SharePoint Data Security Best Practice Part 1

Yesterday i had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with Fredd Thrasher from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) this turned out to be a well attended  and very educational event with lots of top tips and information on SharePoint Data Security from Fredd calling on his 30 years of experience. As i said in a previous …

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Sep 13

SharePoint Data Security best practices Webinars

We always do a dry run of the webinars we host so on Friday with started the practice run with Fredd Thrasher from SAIC and it very quickly became obvious that the subject just had to much information for a 1 hour session. So we decided that rather than cut the presentation down to 1 …

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Aug 18

SharePoint Security as easy as 1 2 3 with MetaVis Security Manager

One of the most difficult admin tasks in SharePoint is permission management so I was very pleased when MetaVis launched their security manager product at SharePoint Saturday the conference. Now I have been testing this product through beta and I must say I have been impressed with each and every build. I have previously used …

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Jun 15

Establishing an Audit Trail of SharePoint Security Activity

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I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir when I say more and more information resides in SharePoint and more and more of that information is confidential ranging from HR data, customer records, financial information or sensitive information that you don’t want to end up on WikiLeaks. SharePoint permissions provide proactive access control over who can …

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