SharePoint & OneDrive. Providing a safe and secure environment for collaboration (part 1)
Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive are used to support an extensive range of business scenarios including file sharing, collaboration, document management and many other activities for users across many organisations. These activities can involve users both within and outside of an organisation. Many organisations are unaware of the measures available to help ensure the environment remains safe and secure.
In part 1 of this blog, I cover a couple of the basic areas an organisation should consider for helping to make SharePoint and OneDrive a safe and secure environment in which to collaborate:
- Access Control
- Terms of use
How do we control access to Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive?
Thinking about Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive in a safe and secure environment can sometimes start with needing to define how to grant and control access as a first step. Users within an organisation will probably want to access SharePoint or OneDrive on a variety of devices from different locations, however a starting point for most organisations is to enable a baseline level of security using ‘security defaults’.
What are ‘Security Defaults’?
Managing security can be difficult when common identity-related attacks are becoming more and more popular. These attacks include password spray, replay, and phishing.
Security defaults in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) make it easier to be secure and help protect your organisation. Security defaults contain preconfigured security settings for common attacks and Microsoft is making them available to everyone. The goal is to ensure that all organisations have a basic level of security enabled at no extra cost.
You turn on security defaults in the Azure portal a shown below: