Entries Categorized as 'SharePoint Security'
by Neil MacDonald | June 17, 2010 | Comments Off
I’ve been absent from my regular blogging routine over the last week getting ready for the 16th annual US Gartner Information Security Summit to be held next week in Washington DC. I’ve already made appointments to talk with many of you directly at the event and I’m looking forward to meeting and discussing my areas [...]
Category: Information Security SharePoint Security Virtualization Security Tags: Information Security, Microsoft Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | January 4, 2010 | 3 Comments
Food for thought to kick off 2010. The convergence of these trends (listed in my opinion of the order of impact) will radically reshape the future of information security – both the vendor landscape and how we architect and manage information security internally: Convergence onto Security Platforms: The movement of related security controls into “security [...]
Category: Endpoint Protection Platform Information Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure SharePoint Security Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Cloud Security, Endpoint Protection Platform, Information Security, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, SharePoint Security, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | July 27, 2009 | 2 Comments
We had a crowd of several hundred people for my presentation on SharePoint security at the recent Gartner Information Security Summit. It’s pretty much as I suspected – just like virtualization projects where security tends to be an afterthought (if considered at all), SharePoint deployments are pretty much following the same course. When I polled [...]
Category: SharePoint Security Tags: Best Practices, Information Security, SharePoint, SharePoint Security
by Neil MacDonald | June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
I’ve been absent for a few weeks from my regular blogging activities performing research and building the final presentations for next week’s Gartner Information Security Summit in Washington DC. This is Gartner’s single largest event focused exclusively on all aspects of information security. All of the information security analysts will be there discussing topics as [...]
Category: Next-generation Security Infrastructure SharePoint Security Virtualization Security Tags: Lockdown, SharePoint, SharePoint Security, Virtualization, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | May 4, 2009 | Comments Off
I’m here at the Midsize Enterprise Summit in Miami, Florida and I had the opportunity to sit down and discuss security issues with several CIOs this afternoon. One of the CIOs had a number of questions on SharePoint security. They described the grass roots adoption of the technology in their organization as “phenomenal” (consistent with [...]
Category: SharePoint Security Tags: Best Practices, SharePoint, SharePoint Security
by Neil MacDonald | March 24, 2009 | 10 Comments
You can’t secure what you don’t know about and can’t see. We estimate that 30% of SharePoint servers are deployed outside the management of the IT department. It’s not SharePoint’s fault. It is a popular software solution precisely because it enables users to share information in the way that works best for them. In many [...]
Category: SharePoint Security Tags: Application Security, Best Practices, SharePoint Security
by Neil MacDonald | March 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
In my discussions with clients on how to securely implement SharePoint, I’ve seen two major reoccurring issues: 1. Many of the operations and security professionals I talk with about how to securely deploy solutions like SharePoint are very good at protecting discrete things – servers, desktops, hubs, switches, routers, ports and protocols. Even when we [...]
Category: Information Security SharePoint Security Tags: Information Security, SharePoint Security
by Neil MacDonald | February 25, 2009 | 14 Comments
I’m sure you’ve experienced the growth of SharePoint in your organizations firsthand (and those are only the deployments you know about!). SharePoint is a flexible product with a pretty powerful security architecture and it got even more powerful with the latest release. But with this flexibility comes complexity. In discussions with clients on securing [...]
Category: SharePoint Security Tags: Best Practices, SharePoint, SharePoint Security
