Many organizations rely on Microsoft SharePoint for critical document and records management. Yet, its built-in security is often not enough to protect sensitive corporate documents. Because SharePoint evolved from a file sharing and decentralized workgroup environment, it often does not provide the security granularity and flexibility needed to meet an organization's security and compliance requirements.

There are three key areas to address in order to secure the SharePoint document repository.

This white paper covers each of these areas, and provides recommendations for how SharePoint administrations can enhance SharePoint security and apply security automatically and consistently across the SharePoint repository.