Upcoming Webcasts
Next webcast:
"Securing Your SharePoint Documents, End to End"
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012, 10am Pacific
CipherPoint conducts webcasts on SharePoint security and compliance topics, including HITECH compliance and SharePoint, SharePoint Defense in Depth, content security, and others. For links to replays of recent webcasts, please visit our webcasts page.
SharePoint Encryption
New SEC Guidelines Suggest Breach and Cybersecurity Disclosure in Financial Statements
- Blog
- October 18, 2011
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New guidance from the SEC on the topic of disclosing risks relating to breach information and cybersecurity has just been released. If all of the public breaches, Anonymous, and hacktivism have not elevated cybersecurity to the boardrooms of most ...
Top Security Mistakes and SharePoint
- Blog
- August 21, 2011
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I read an article today regarding the 5 most ignored security best practices based on analysis of a survey across a sample of 420 organizations. The top 5 reduce to 2:
users don’t instinctively follow security best practices
organizations are not...
Encryption, Auditors, and SharePoint
- Blog
- March 28, 2011
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Thales eSecurity, a vendor primarily known for Hardware Security Modules, sponsored an independent study by the Ponemon Institute regarding the opinions security assessors have regarding data encryption. There are some fascinating conclusions in t...
Safe Harbor and SharePoint Content Encryption
- Blog
- March 12, 2011
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Fahmida Y. Rashid recently wrote an article in eweek about the average cost of a data breach rising to $7.2M according to a study by the Ponemon Institute. We’ve already seen the Ponemon report but a few sections of Fahmida’s article pertaining to...
SharePoint as a File Server Replacement
- Blog
- November 4, 2010
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A theme that constantly comes up in customer discussions is a pretty simple use case, with SharePoint being installed as a replacement for file servers and network drives.
While simple conceptually, implementing SharePoint as a file server replac...
Interesting Gartner Blog on Whitelists, Default Deny
- Blog
- October 6, 2010
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Ran across a very interesting blog from Neil MacDonald, a VP at Gartner on the topic of extending whitelisting to information access.
The idea of whitelists has been around for a while, notably in A/V and endpoint security products, as a way to en...
Recent Blogs
- Transparent Encryption for SharePoint: How it Works
- What SharePoint Security and Compliance Problems Do You Need to Solve?
- Wikileaks and SharePoint: Yes, There’s a Connection
- Security Breaches in 2011: Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel
- And Speaking of Insider Threats...
- Digital Universe, and the Growth of Unstructured Content
- Cloud Security
- Healthcare, Compliance, Security, and Microsoft SharePoint
- New SEC Guidelines Suggest Breach and Cybersecurity Disclosure in Financial Statements
- SharePoint: There's compliance, and then there's Compliance
