Talking SharePoint Security
SharePoint Metadata and Classification and more

Leaving San Francisco today and heading home – SPTechCon has been a great show once again! The lightening talks were a lot of fun Monday night. All throughout the show we’ve had lots of good conversations with people about how they’re using SharePoint and what security aspects they’re concerned about.  A lot of talk at this show about SharePoint Governance.

Last night we were talking about one customer scenario where we recently helped to secure and control the values they’re users have access to within a drop down list.  Their users need to upload project documents to SharePoint, and they’re required to choose a project name  for each document from a drop down list.   However some project names are considered sensitive and can only be viewed or selected by users with higher-level security clearance.  It was an interesting simple implementation that I thought I’d share.

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From SharePoint Summit 2011 Toronto – Thanks to everyone that attended my session this morning on Secure Information Sharing in SharePoint 2010. Met some great people and had some good conversations between sessions about how people are using SharePoint and what stage they’re at in their deployment or migration to 2010 – a big shout out to my buddy Pascal that happened to be there, and to my South African friend in the audience (long way to travel for a conference… enjoy the Rockies).

My session seemed to spark some interest in the SharePoint2010 Content Organizer feature. There were a couple of technical questions that came up related to it that I said I would try to follow up on with some answers – from some reading and experimenting I did after the session, here’s what I’ve found so far:

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This is always a busy time of year for conferences. We’re in the midst of getting ready for 2 upcoming SharePoint events that we’re attending and would love to see you at:

• SharePoint Summit Toronto 2011 (Jan 31 to Feb 2 in Toronto, Canada)

I’m giving one of the sessions entitled “Secure Information Sharing in SharePoint 2010″ at 10am on Wednesday Feb 2 (Session 11.3, Intermediate Track 200). I’m going to be talking about policies and strategies needed to enable secure information sharing in SharePoint, and then about some of the features in SharePoint 2010 that help to enable this. SharePoint goes part of the way with native SharePoint security and some great new features, but 3rd party add-ons are also needed in order to ensure that end users know what content is sensitive and to ensure that its handled and stored appropriately. Please come by to check it out and say hi.

• SPTechCon San Francisco 2011 (Feb 7 to 9 in San Francisco, CA)

SPTechCon is always a great show for us! Thanks to David Rubenstein/Stacey Buris and their crews for putting it on! We’re going to have a booth here (booth #803) so come check us out on the show floor. As well, on the Monday night, Feb 7, I’m going to be doing one of the 5 minute lightening talks entitled “Scary Tales of SharePoint Security”. Lots to talk about here – again, native SharePoint security is great, but as your deployment scales with more and more content SharePoint security becomes more and more difficult to manage.

Hope to see you in either Toronto or San Francisco.
-Antonio

We are happy to announce today that TITUS Document Marking and TITUS PDF Control for SharePoint now support SharePoint 2010!

This rounds out our SharePoint platform support, with the entire TITUS Security Suite for SharePoint supported on all existing SharePoint platforms:

• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)

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