Cleaning Up Active Directory and SharePoint Access Permissions

Administering permissions within Active Directory and SharePoint in a manner that both accurately affords access to those with a business need and doesn’t over-expose sensitive information is a critical, but overwhelming, job. Whether driven by compliance initiatives, or motivated by an interest in the protection of sensitive employee, customer or product information, most IT organizations see the value of maintaining these controls, but fail to execute. Why?

Active Directory and SharePoint cleanup projects are almost always initiated without a clear plan, without the right tools and without the use of a proven methodology.

In most cases, these projects aren’t finished. When completed, the same systemic issues that drove the original settings out of alignment resurface to restart the corrosive cycle again.

To take control of Active Directory and SharePoint permissions, organizations must:

1. Examine existing permissions assigned to users and groups
2. Evaluate the accuracy of existing permissions
3. Identify business owners for each document or folder
4. Develop changes to existing permission structures
5. Test changes to existing permission structures to avoid downtime
6. Obtain approval for changes from business owners
7. Execute changes within Active Directory and SharePoint
8. Support business requirements within newly created folders
9. Enable users to request and obtain permission changes in an easy and auditable manner

When done manually, the process is time consuming. Automating some aspects of Active Directory and SharePoint access control provides two primary benefits:

• Time savings: When automated, the entire 9 step process can be completed in a matter of minutes.
• Assurance: When automated, the permission accuracy can be substantially improved so that the right information remains available to the right people at all times.

At this event, you will learn how to recognize these benefits by:

• Cleaning up access control with automation
• Finding data owners and stale data in a few clicks
• Conducting audits and forensic investigations in minutes

SharePoint Permission Issues?

Few question the benefits of using SharePoint as a powerful collaboration platform. However, once installed, SharePoint often takes on a life of its own as users quickly deploy sites and upload content. Unfortunately, the platform offers little in the way of centralized control over document and site security settings and so many organizations need to hire or train a dedicated administrator to handle these tasks.

At this event you'll see how Varonis can help IT administrators quickly discover, assess, test and update SharePoint permissions.

Organizations that run SharePoint today, as well as those looking to deploy it in the future, will benefit from learning how to:

• Accelerate SharePoint migrations through the use of data owner and data use intelligence
• Establish visibility to file permissions with user-to-data mapping
• Automate audits for controlling data access across sites—with no performance impact