SHAREPOINT SECURITY RISK

By D.E.Levine

The Sharepoint collaboration tool is one of the fastest growing applications in the Windows environment. It provides much needed collaboration tools in an easy-to-use suite.

So simple that it is frequently deployed by employees without help from the IT department, Sharepoint may prove to be a mega security risk.

When unsupervised deployment occurs companies are frequently left with unsecured Sharepoint deployments that includes sensitive data.

Sixty percent of companies use security tools designed for Sharepoint while the other 40 percent use conventional server and endpoint security applications that don't fully secure the Sharepoint environment.

Many companies don't have policies in place for use of Sharepoint, a crucial failing that leaves the environment open to unauthorized access from other departments within the company and outside of the company.