Gartner Warns of Rogue SharePoint Sites
Posted by Kurt Johnson - VP Strategy on Wed, Mar 25, 2009
I was just reading Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald's most recent blog posting about Rogue SharePoint Sites and was interested to see that Gartner estimates that about 30% of SharePoint servers are operating outside of the management sphere of IT departments. Neil also mentions that this is not SharePoint's fault, but rather a problem with oversight - or lack thereof - with respect to organizational compliance with enterprise security policies.
I touched on this in my blog posting last month (Microsoft SharePoint - Governance Schmuvernance) and I'm glad to see that awareness of this policy compliance issue is becoming widespread, with the likes of Gartner recognizing the scope of the potential risk it poses. Courion has been providing SharePoint security solutions for some time which give organizations insight into the configuration, authentication, and authorization needs that Neil refers to.
How does your organization view this issue?