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SharePoint SafeGuard


Purpose

To provide a lightweight utility that will secure a SharePoint server at the portable media level to prevent unauthorized data copying and malicious content insertion. Read this security focus article on new USB threats (specifically regarding a credit union).

Audience

  • SharePoint Server Administrators
  • Server Custodians
  • Systems Administrators
Available Downloads
Download SharePoint SafeGuard - Normal Installation
Download SharePoint SafeGuard - Silent Installation
Application Overview

It is important when protecting your SharePoint environment to ensure that you harden your server at all tiers of data copying and injection. This involves securing sections of your server which can accept other types of media besides providing access over a network. The most common portable media storage types that you are going to find available on typical servers running SharePoint:

  • CD/DVD Tray
  • USB Device
  • Floppy Drive

There might be other media, tape drives or possibly zip units, however the utility is fairly general.

Using the SharePoint SafeGuard is important on your SharePoint servers since it will prevent both information loss / unauthorized copying and can prevent injections of malicious activity on your server. Using the SharePoint SafeGuard will ensure that users are denied copying access for SharePoint files (most importantly .stp’s etc. since they are often bundled with content) for content directly on the server, and will deny malicious content transfer from portable media.

Using this tool requires installing a windows service as well. Once you run the installation package, you can execute this command to make your service appear in the services.msc MCC snap-in.

Select Start
Choose Run
Enter the following command:
C:ProgramFilesARB Security SolutionsSharePoint SafeGuardSafeGuardService.exe /INSTALL

The primary application interface is fairly small, with three options. You can guard the three most typical drives found on SharePoint servers, or unguard ones that are currently guarded.


After you guard a portable media type, it will prompt you to let you know of your selection, and the radio button control will replace.

After you take off guarding, a very similiar form will prompt confirming you of your selection and showing successful interaction with the SafeGuard service.




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 TechNet Article

Read my article "7 New Features That Enhance Security In SharePoint" published in the Janurary issue of TechNet magazine Read Now

 Steps To SharePoint Security

Implement Internal SharePoint Security Model

Harden Your Environment With Tools and Policies

Monitor and Supervise With Server Utilities

 SharePoint Security Articles
The Definitive Guide To MOSS Pluggable Authentication Providers
The Active Directory Membership Provider and SharePoint Introduction
Introduction to and Building an ASP.NET 2.0 Custom Session State Provider
Considerations for Security Relating To Configuration Elements
Introduction to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and WSSv3 Trust Levels and Code Access Security
 Example Attack on SharePoint With Chunked Encodes and Overflow

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