SharePoint Permissions

The Challenge

The more SharePoint becomes adopted within your organization, the more difficult it becomes to control SharePoint permissions and understand who has access to what within your SharePoint sites. Often, SharePoint is configured to allow end users to manage the permissions of sites, lists and libraries. With so many users capable of making these changes permissions become exceedingly difficult to control. Not only does it become a challenge to understand where a particular user or group has access, but larger issues may arise if these permissions are not properly managed, including:

• Too many users may be granted rights to SharePoint sites through the assignment of well known security principals (i.e. NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users) or large AD domain groups. These high risk sites can be especially troublesome if sensitive data is stored within them
• Stale permissions may arise when users and groups are granted rights that they no longer need or never needed in the first place.
• Breeches in an ethical wall may occur when users are granted common rights to SharePoint content

The Solution

The StealthAUDIT Management Platform for SharePoint offers in-depth permissions analysis and effective rights calculations to ensure you always know how your SharePoint permissions are configured and what the resultant rights are. This makes it simple to find exactly who has access to each and every SharePoint resource, and also to monitor the ways in which these permissions are applied to make sure proper governance is being enforced. With SMP for SharePoint you can:

• Scan SharePoint permissions including an in-depth Active Directory analysis to provide detailed information around who has access to what and how they got it
• Perform permission attestations with the SharePoint data custodians to ensure that users only have access to what they need
• Identify where SharePoint permissions can be cleaned up and removed
• Identify where users have too much permissions
• Quickly identify and remediate high risk sites and breeches in the ethical wall