Data Protection - Compliance Manager for SharePoint
Product/Technology: Compliance Manager for SharePoint
Hardware or Software? Software
Launched: February 2009 (New)
What it does? Microsoft SharePoint is extremely popular however its ease and convenience can create security and governance problems. Compliance Manager for SharePoint helps organizations identify poorly governed SharePoint sites and reduce their security risk. It locates SharePoint sites and uses security policy and best practices guidelines to highlight sites with elevated levels of security risk. Administrators can focus on sites with the highest risk to determine what steps are required to bring them into compliance with security policy and reduce the risk of inappropriate data access. Regular scanning helps ensure sites remain in compliance with corporate policy.
What makes it Innovative? Compliance Manager for SharePoint is the only product on the market that uses pre-defined security guidelines and industry best practices to highlight poorly governed SharePoint sites enabling administrators to manage sites that represent higher levels of risk to the organization.
The solution enables system administrators to identify and reduce risk by highlighting sites that are not in compliance with security policy or industry best practices and enabling the system administrators to bring the sites into compliance by remediating inappropriate access. Administrators can use Compliance Manager for SharePoint to regularly monitor SharePoint sites, ensure users aren’t opening security holes and demonstrate compliance with corporate policy to management and auditors.
Compliance Manager for SharePoint can scan a server and identify all the SharePoint sites on the server. For each site, the solution identifies all users and domain groups and their associated permission levels on the site. The software then provides the administrator with graphs and detailed reports which highlight sites that are in violation of corporate security policy or best practices, giving them the information they need to identify the best approach to remediating those violations.
Targeted Users: Enterprises of all sizes that are concerned about the lack of effective governance and security controls due to the proliferation of SharePoint sites within their environment.
Satisfied Customers: Yes, the vendor claims satisfied customers.
Company: Courion Corporation
1881 Worcester Rd Framingham MA 01701
