Posted by Ken Allen on Tue, Jun 30, 2009 @ 09:00 AM
We just noticed this article on how to effectively secure Microsoft SharePoint by Shane Buckley. In it, Shane itemizes the top things a third party solution should do to help you secure your SharePoint environment. Fortunately, Axceler's product ControlPoint can help you with most if not all of these.
"Inevitably, at some point in time, a breach or compliance violation is going to force a Microsoft SharePoint security solution purchase. When evaluating solutions that claim to provide secure access to Microsoft SharePoint, keep in mind that they must do or support the following ten things:
1. Integrate into multiple directories (Active Directory and LDAP directories included)
2. Support multiple attributes per policy for fine-grained access control
3. Support enterprise-wide policies across numerous Microsoft SharePoint application instances
4. Align security policy with business intent
5. Rapidly provision and enforce entitlement policies across applications and users
6. Easily define and enforce policies that control access to specific areas of a Microsoft SharePoint portal
7. Support audit and e-discovery mandates to ensure compliance
8. Centralize management to reduce administration costs and support shared ownership of policies across networking, security, applications and business teams
9. Increase return on investment benefit by leveraging investment in IT infrastructure, existing directory stores and the network
10. Provide security on time and within budget"