I get asked for this all the time. Customers ask for the “Best Practices” for really complex subjects, sharing settings, site structure, things where, as a consultant, my answer almost always has to be ...“It depends.” Complex subjects are very hard to apply best practices to, and the way that you know you are about to wander into that territory is when you find yourself asking someone “What do most organizations do?”
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The tyranny of search engine optimization forced me to give this article that boring title, but honestly I wanted to call it “Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers” . One of the big myths we have in the Information Technology world is that security is a mature and solved problem. In reality we just want to get the baby buggy bumpers in place to keep us from hitting our heads on sharp corners, we have to keep watching for risks and adapting our plans as the landscape becomes clearer.
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With the current state of work a lot of organizations are scrambling to figure out a way to get work done remotely and/or in the cloud. The need to keep at least the basics running while being concerned about how secure the “cloud” is creates a lot of tension. Here at PAIT Group we specialize in Office 365. Normally we do a lot of work with planning, migrating, and training customers to make this kind of transition as smooth and orderly as possible. For the moment though, we are also doing our best to capture your questions and concerns quickly.
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Over the last year, PAIT Group's President and Microsoft MVP Stephanie Donahue has spoken at numerous industry leading conferences and events. This included SharePoint Fest DC, where she led Office 365 collaboration tool discussions on migration strategy, business productivity, deployment planning, and PowerApps.
As an AvePoint Community Champion, Stephanie also got a chance to link up to discuss Office 365 security and compliance with fellow Microsoft MVP and AvePoint CMO, Dux Raymond, at SPFest. Check out their conversation below!
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In meeting with customers I’ve found a strange split in the way people approach security with Office 365. Companies that historically have a culture that puts security front and center seem to feel using Office 365 sacrifices some control of security. Customers who have been less focused on security are often relieved that, at first blush, Office 365 doesn’t present a lot of security options they need to worry about. Accounts? Check. Passwords? Check. Groups and security settings that are mostly familiar from AD, Exchange, and SharePoint? Check, check and check, we are ready to get to work. The truth of it is that both of these takes on online security have some validity.
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