Tag: Microsoft SharePoint

Providing secure access to information for improved customer service while streamlining IT operations

January 20, 2016

By Tarun Mehta, NextLabs Solutions Team   “Securing customer data in property and casualty insurance, life & savings, and asset management products is tantamount to protecting a company’s ethos. After all, organizations in this industry gain brand loyalty by promising to give customers’ “peace of mind,” which now includes maintaining the privacy and security of … More Providing secure access to information for improved customer service while streamlining IT operations

4 Ways IT must Change to Protect your Business

December 11, 2014

By E.K. Koh, VP of Solutions at NextLabs It’s not your perimeter. It’s not your applications. In an age where there is no perimeter, where data moves from application to application, from servers to desktops to tablets and smart phones that the company does not even own, managing security at the perimeter or application is … More 4 Ways IT must Change to Protect your Business

My SharePoint Rights Management Wish List

November 12, 2014

By Yann Lejas, Director of Sales Engineering at NextLabs | Most enterprises are using browser-based applications, such as Microsoft SharePoint, to store and share documents and files with their colleagues, business partners, and customers. This platform presents certain advantages: it makes information easy to share and quick to transfer. Digital documents can be accessed anywhere, … More My SharePoint Rights Management Wish List

Is this the Right time for Rights Management?

October 28, 2014

By E.K. Koh, VP of Solutions at NextLabs It depends on whether you believe the analysts. In the report “Information Security Predictions and Recommendations 2014”, Kuppinger Cole recommends that enterprises “Focus on strategic elements such as Information Rights Management for documents and Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) for managing the secrets.” And, at the … More Is this the Right time for Rights Management?

Data Retention and Disposal in the cloud

October 13, 2014

By Sudhindra Kumar, Principal Software Engineer at NextLabs In this blog series, we’ve discussed some of the key challenges impeding adoption of the cloud. In this instalment, we’ll talk about Data Retention and Disposal in the cloud. A lot of attention is paid to cloud data protection, regulatory compliance for cloud data, and how to … More Data Retention and Disposal in the cloud

What are the Financial Costs of Data Loss?

September 22, 2014

By E.K. Koh, VP of Solutions at NextLabs |   The direct financial costs include future loss of revenue when trade secrets are stolen today. According to the Battelle Foundation report “2013 Global R&D Funding Forecast”, the financial costs of intellectual property theft – internal and external – are compounded over time. When trade secrets are stolen, … More What are the Financial Costs of Data Loss?

SharePoint 2014 Key Security Takeaways – Our Top 5

March 13, 2014

By Mandy Pang, Senior Product Manager SharePoint 2014 Key Security Takeaways – Our Top 5 The conference attendees were buzzed on Attributes.  Specifically, attribute-based security models for SharePoint.  Role-based models are no longer making the cut – they leave collaboration vulnerable.  Attribute-based solutions have fine-grained control. Clouds, of course was big, even bigger was the … More SharePoint 2014 Key Security Takeaways – Our Top 5

Do you have SharePoint Site Explosion?

February 27, 2014

By Mandy Pang Microsoft SharePoint server is an outstanding and widely adopted collaboration platform for sharing business-critical data. However, enterprises are finding that SharePoint’s permissions-based security model is not scalable and doesn’t provide adequate controls for sensitive, regulated, and highly valuable data. There is a rapid proliferation of SharePoint sites and data, as well as … More Do you have SharePoint Site Explosion?

Cloud Security – Protecting data at rest and in transit – Information Risk Management for the Cloud

February 20, 2014

By Sudhindra Kumar, Principal Software Engineer at NextLabs In my previous blog, we discussed about Data Governance Policies and Regulatory Compliance. In this post, we’ll see some of the options available to protect data at rest and in transit. A few years ago, protecting data in transit was considered more important than protecting data at rest. … More Cloud Security – Protecting data at rest and in transit – Information Risk Management for the Cloud