Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Understanding the Threats to SharePoint Data

A SharePoint document management and collaboration environment is a mission-critical service for many organizations. In many cases, a SharePoint environment contains the physical representation of the intellectual property of an organization, and it is subsequently critical that the data in a SharePoint environment is secure and reliable.

Modern threats to SharePoint data integrity take many forms, but organizations can’t afford to ignore them. Some common issues are as follows:

• Data redundancy— The ability to have an up-to-date copy of data in more than location is a critical requirement because it provides a data redundancy solution for hardware and site disaster scenarios or outages. This type ...