Office 365 / SharePoint – Living in a Hybrid World: Compliance and Governance meet Cloud

Live from SharePoint Conference 2012.

This is a partner session by AvePoint.

Governance

20% CIO’s will lose their jobs for failing to implement discipline of information governance (Gartner Research 2016 Prediction).

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Requirements for IT Governance:

  • people have to be involved; an Executive sponsorship is mandatory to make governance project successful
    • IT: Architect, IT operation & administration
    • Business Owners: workload owners, departmental & functional owners
    • Back Office: Finance, Legal, HR and Communication teams
  • define a set of policies
    • Infrastructure
    • Operations
    • Information Architecture
    • Information Management
    • Project Management
  • define process to apply policy
    • Manual: encouragement, resource intensive, human error
    • Semi automated: PowerShell scripts, 3rd party tool
    • Automated: custom application, 3rd party tool
  • use some technology to assist processes and policies implementation

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Compliance, Risk and Privacy

  • Risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity will lead to a loss. The notion implies that a choice having an influence on the outcomes exists.
  • Compliance means conforming with stated requirements.

Challenges of compliance obligations and risks to information:

  • intellectual property and trade secrets
  • sensitive customers
  • collaboration on strategy
  • personal information
  • legal and compliance obligation

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Some specific risks to consider:

  • confidentiality leaks
  • loss of data integrity
  • no access to or availability of data

Questions to ask:

  • how do we protect the data
  • how do we reduce the risk of exposure
  • how do we quickly find information
  • how to we prepare for litigation and eDiscovery
  • how do we ensure policy consistency
  • how do we scale the compliance solution to the enterprise
  • how do we control cost
  • what is our cloud strategy

Don’t just focus on what you can see.

Creating and maintaining a compliant SharePoint environment is a continuous process:

  1. analyze the current environment
  2. identify non compliance
  3. prioritize the business needs
  4. diagram new security boundaries
  5. architect
  6. undertake migration
  7. maintain control

 

How do we control

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Cloud readiness assessment:

  • assess existing sites and content
  • report on and classify content
  • design compliant information architecture
  • determine cloud migration approach

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