Automate SharePoint Permissions Management
Assess user permission to SharePoint folders and files
Automate SharePoint account provisioning
Enforce data protection policies
Without insight into SharePoint permissions, it’s nearly impossible to ensure data is effectively protected and security policy is enforced. SolarWinds Access Rights Manager helps give you greater visibility into SharePoint user and group permissions, so you can verify how data is being accessed and confirm data loss prevention strategies are working. Plus, with our web-based, self-service permissions portal, you can securely delegate SharePoint access management to the data owner to manage—freeing you up for more important work.
Help accelerate demonstrating compliance with customized and automated reports
Whether it’s PCI or GDPR compliance, you know your auditor will likely ask you to provide proof you’re satisfying data protection requirements. With ARM, you have access to customized reports detailing SharePoint access to help you show compliance with your SharePoint permissions management. What’s more, you can automatically deliver these reports directly to your auditor. Access Rights Manager logs the identities of anyone who has made changes to SharePoint files and folders permission. With audit-ready reports, your audits can go faster and more smoothly.
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What is SharePoint access rights management software?
Proper management of SharePoint edit permissions involves more than applying or updating permission levels. Rather, it requires managing the applications, processes, tools, and systems involved in verifying the access rights associated with a specific user or SharePoint group. As user roles and their associated permissions change, SharePoint and site admins (formerly known as site collection admins) need tools to efficiently and effectively delete, transfer, or edit permissions.
SharePoint access rights management software is built to consolidate reporting and management functions into a single interface or dashboard. It can also support monitoring access to reduce risk and provide you with the ability to more easily restrict or delete access when no longer required. SharePoint permissions tools can help improve overall system security, accelerate cybersecurity investigations, and demonstrate compliance.
What can a SharePoint permissions management tool do?
SharePoint permissions management tools can streamline the process of operating and maintaining access rights to SharePoint files and folders, even when deployed as part of a hybrid computing environment. From a single console, you can easily use the group wizard functionality to automatically create permission groups on SharePoint.
SharePoint permissions management tools help you cut down on unnecessary data access requests by having data owners delegate and manage SharePoint file access rights.
Access management software is also designed to provide greater insight into user access with its ability to generate SharePoint permissions reports, which detail changes in SharePoint view permissions and other modifications to user account privileges. These reports can help you prevent unauthorized or accidental access to sensitive materials or resources by allowing you to more easily gain insight into what changes are made, the users who made the changes, and when the changes happened, so you can keep your network hardened against cybersecurity threats and quickly address SharePoint permission issues.
Why is SharePoint permissions management important?
Adhering to SharePoint rights management best practices is a key aspect of shoring up the security of your sites and systems. While we tend to focus on outside cybersecurity threats, internal employees, whether intentionally or accidentally, can also put data at risk, so taking a restrictive approach to SharePoint permissions management is crucial.
Very few end users need full control permissions to carry out their everyday tasks and responsibilities, and assigning the proper level of access can go a long way toward mitigating the risk of serious data breaches and legal fines. Regular checks and reports on permissions escalations help keep administrators apprised of network activity and make it easy to demonstrate compliance.
Simplifying your ability to verify whether SharePoint groups have the appropriate level of access can help improve your ability to enforce security policies and better protect data.
How to manage permissions in SharePoint with SolarWinds Access Rights Manager
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is designed to streamline, optimize, and scale SharePoint permissions management by offering a comprehensive set of monitoring, automation, and management tools and functions.
ARM’s convenient web interface features a self-service permissions portal data owners can use to delegate access management. ARM can also provide critical visibility into user permissions—including detailed information about who accessed what data and when—in addition to tracking the user accounts responsible for alterations made to SharePoint permissions, which can help you ensure the effectiveness of your data loss prevention strategies.
ARM also uses powerful automation functions to help increase the productivity and efficiency of your IT team by freeing up your time to focus on more important tasks. Creating SharePoint audit reports to demonstrate compliance, for instance, can be fully automated and delivered to auditors on a schedule. Like many SolarWinds products, ARM allows you to easily customize your reporting, giving you insight into specific account permissions or assets that are of particular concern.
ARM’s automation capabilities also extend to account provisioning. Role-specific permissions templates can be automatically applied when generating new accounts, making it easier for you to maintain strong security practices and consistent business operations.
Related features and tools
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- SharePoint Audit
- SharePoint Reporting
- NTFS Permissions Management
- Exchange Auditing Software
- Active Directory Group Management
- File Server Auditing
- SAP Monitoring
What is SharePoint access rights management software?
Proper management of SharePoint edit permissions involves more than applying or updating permission levels. Rather, it requires managing the applications, processes, tools, and systems involved in verifying the access rights associated with a specific user or SharePoint group. As user roles and their associated permissions change, SharePoint and site admins (formerly known as site collection admins) need tools to efficiently and effectively delete, transfer, or edit permissions.
SharePoint access rights management software is built to consolidate reporting and management functions into a single interface or dashboard. It can also support monitoring access to reduce risk and provide you with the ability to more easily restrict or delete access when no longer required. SharePoint permissions tools can help improve overall system security, accelerate cybersecurity investigations, and demonstrate compliance.
Manage SharePoint Permissions
Access Rights Manager
- View, monitor, and audit Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint users, groups & folders permission
- Quickly manage and provision user access
- Generate custom management and audit reports
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