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SharePoint Security Threats

One of the classic questions that IT security and SharePoint folks should ask themselves when securing SharePoint sites and data is "what are the threats to my SharePoint environment, and the data stored there?" Understanding your potential attack...

Security Breach, Implications for SharePoint, Security, Compliance, and Encryption

A security breach announced this week at UNC has some implications for SharePoint, security, encryption, and compliance. To be clear, there's nothing in the news articles that implicates SharePoint. But I worry that given the ease with which a com...

SharePoint, Content Scanning, Encryption, InfoPath, SharePoint Lists, and Claims-based Authentication

CipherPoint today announced a number of things that will be of interest to the SharePoint community, including a new, free Content Scanner for SharePoint, and enhanced features for our CipherPointSP Enterprise product, adding encryption of InfoPat...

SharePoint Security Survey

CipherPoint conducted a webcast yesterday on the topic "De-mystifying SharePoint Security". During the webcast, we surveyed the audience on several key questions relating to SharePoint security. While the survey comprised just three questions, we ...

SharePoint, Security, and Compliance

CipherPoint's CEO, Mike Fleck, is authoring a regular series of articles on SharePoint, Security, and Compliance. The articles de-mystify the topics of security and compliance for SharePoint. They are worth a look, and you can find them on EndUser...

Wikileaks and Stratfor Drive Encryption Interest

John Kindervag, a Forrester analyst, makes the case for more data encryption in a recent blog entitled "Wikileaks and Stratfor Make The Case For More Data Encryption."  In his article John describes how "The value of this breach for the larger Inf...

Transparent Encryption for SharePoint: How it Works

We often get asked "How does your SharePoint encryption technology work?"  The video below will walk you through how CipherPoint's transparent encryption products for SharePoint protect sensitive content in SharePoint sites through the application...

What SharePoint Security and Compliance Problems Do You Need to Solve?

At CipherPoint, we hear this a lot from SharePoint architects and administrators: "we need to increase the security of our SharePoint sites to accommodate sensitive content". We also hear this frequently: "we have to comply with (take your pick, H...

Security Breaches in 2011: Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel

Bear with me, I'll circle this back around to SharePoint security, compliance and encryption for sensitive information protection.. The state of information security in many organizations is, let's face it, woeful. For determined hackers and attac...

And Speaking of Insider Threats...

We talk a lot in this blog about the threat from trusted insiders. Garden variety insider threat comes from disgruntled employees, soon-to-be ex-employees, and others intent on stealing information for some reason or another. What if the insiders ...