Solutions : Microsoft SharePoint

Enterprises are adopting a more collaborative approach to application deployment in order to promote cooperation and simplify communication among users while streamlining business processes. As a result, the use of Microsoft SharePoint has exploded. Microsoft sold over 85 million SharePoint licenses with a revenue of over $1Bn to 17,000 enterprises in 2007.

Microsoft SharePoint empowers new communities of knowledge workers and connects all stakeholders, including employees, contractors, partners, suppliers and even competitors across organizational and geographic boundaries. According to CMS Watch, “A North American bank reported more than 5,000 uncontrolled and unaudited instances of SharePoint. A major energy company reported finding more than 15,000 previously undetected instances of SharePoint.”

Fast, low cost and easy to deploy, Microsoft SharePoint portals make the enterprise more nimble; but access control and compliance assurance can be a nightmare for IT and can expose them to business and regulatory risk.

Challenges:

• Need to support multiple attributes across multiple directories (Active Directory™ & LDAP) with enterprise-wide policies
• Need to provision access control quickly and cost effectively without modifying the application or installing clients on all endpoints
• Unauthorized application and user access
• Unauthorized assets usage
• Inability to audit and report on access and usage
• Inconsistent enterprise policy implementation
• High operational costs to implement and maintain limited entitlements

Rohati’s Transaction Networking System (TNS) platform provides agent-less access management across an enterprise’s broad range of applications and resources. It enables organizations to consistently manage, enforce and audit access control policies across any and multiple SharePoint resources, including document libraries, lists, search queries and Web parts.

Benefits:

• Integrates into multiple directories (Active Directory™ & LDAP)
• Supports multiple attributes per policy for fine grained control
• Supports enterprise-wide policies across numerous SharePoint instances
• Aligns security policy with business intent
• Rapid provisioning and enforcement of entitlement policies across all applications and users including SharePoint
• Easily define and enforce policies that control access to specific areas of a SharePoint portal for all enterprise users
• Supports audit and e-discovery mandates to ensure compliance
• Centralized and delegated management reduces administration costs and supports shared ownership of policies across networking, security, applications and business teams
• Ubiquitous application access broadens deployment options in data centers of any size
• Leverages investments in IT infrastructure and existing directory stores