SharePoint 2010 For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 13

Securing Your Team Site

In This Chapter

Managing groups in SharePoint

Handling security for lists, libraries, and documents

Giving access to administrators

SharePoint is a great tool for storing documents and managing calendars and contacts. But how do you know that your information is secure? Although your IT department makes sure that your network and servers are secure, managing the security for your SharePoint content falls on you as the site steward.

When securing your site, you need to perform three basic tasks. I list them here in the order of the frequency you perform these tasks, from most often to not very often:

Managing SharePoint group membership: When it comes to that dreaded time to manage SharePoint security, what you really need to be thinking is, “To which SharePoint group do I need to add this person?” If you don’t have an existing group and you instead find yourself descending into a morass of permission levels, inheritance, and other such incomprehensible stuff, somebody needs to take away your browser. The reality is that assigning permissions — breaking ...