In the realm of modern workplaces, where digital collaboration and information sharing are paramount, ensuring the security of your organization's data is non-negotiable. SharePoint Intranets serve as central hubs for document management, collaboration, and communication, making them critical assets that require robust security measures. In this blog post, we'll explore essential security best practices to fortify your SharePoint Intranet.

Regular security audits and monitoring are essential for detecting and mitigating security risks within the SharePoint environment.

Considerations include:

• Conducting periodic security audits to assess the effectiveness of security controls, identify vulnerabilities, and ensure compliance with security policies and standards.
• Implementing robust monitoring tools and solutions to track user activities, detect suspicious behavior, and alert administrators to potential security incidents.
• Establishing incident response procedures to investigate and respond to security events identified through security audits and monitoring activities.

Key Takeaways:

• Security audits identify and address vulnerabilities.
• Monitoring tools enable real-time threat detection.

Consider the following strategies:

• Place IDPS sensors strategically throughout the network to monitor traffic entering and exiting SharePoint servers.
• Configure IDPS rules and signatures to detect known attack patterns, anomalous behavior, and suspicious network activities.
• Integrate IDPS with security information and event management (SIEM) systems for centralized logging, correlation, and analysis of security events.

Key Takeaways:

• IDPS solutions provide proactive threat detection and help organizations respond to security incidents in a timely manner.
• Integration with SIEM systems enhances visibility and enables comprehensive analysis of security events across the SharePoint environment.

If you've been keeping an eye on the ever-churning tech rumour mill, you might have come across the unsettling news of a surge in malware downloads linked to a cunning DarkGate malware campaign. This devious scheme tricks victims into unwittingly downloading and opening a malicious LNK file, thereby setting off a chain of infection that culminates in the deployment of the dreaded DarkGate payload.

But this isn't just another rumour – unfortunately, it's a harsh reality that has ensnared numerous individuals and organizations. In recent months, malware downloads in SharePoint have doubled.

It's just an unusual way of delivering ransomware. These hackers are always trying to find new and exciting ways of getting their horrible, dangerous software in people’s environments. Ever since the rise of work from home, a lot more companies are jumping onto SharePoint as a collaboration platform because of everybody working from home. It's bred the perfect environment for hackers to take advantage. They are taking advantage of the fact that there are a lot of new SharePoint users who aren't as experienced and haven't set up heavy security measures.

So, the issue here is not SharePoint itself, but rather the knowledge on how to keep your platform safe.

What would you say to people who are doubting the safety SharePoint as a collaboration tool?

SharePoint is a phenomenal tool and when you set it up correctly, it can be incredibly secure. It's just about knowing how to set it up correctly. Just make sure you do the correct research going into it or get the advice of people who have a great deal of experience with SharePoint, like us (GTconsult).

How can A Team Protection by GTconsult assist clients in keeping their platform secure?

Microsoft has given us many ways of improving the security for Office 365 and SharePoint, but it very daunting, there are hundreds and thousands of different configurations, policies and alerts that can set up. For an inexperienced staff member to try and find all the right things and all the best practices and put them in place, it's hard.

A lot of companies just don’t have the resources or the skills to get it done.

This is where A Team Protection comes in. We do an overview of your current secure score, go through the list of recommendations that Microsoft gives and work together with you to find the easiest way of implementing changes without causing a problem with user experience.

When is the best time to do this?

What are the next steps for those who have already fallen victim to the malware?

Organizations who have been victims of this already are on the radar and have been ear marked as a company with weaker security and maybe they've been labelled as an easy target.

If it happens once, there's a higher likelihood that you will become a victim of this type of thing again- unless your security is improved.

And there you have it – a comprehensive response from our expert analyst on the ongoing threat landscape. It's clear that you shouldn't take any chances; don't become the next victim. Instead, reach out to an organization that possesses extensive knowledge in securing platforms like SharePoint. Reach out to GTconsult. With our expertise, we'll proactively assess your security measures before cybercriminals have a chance. Let us fortify your defences before they get the chance to strike. Your data's safety is paramount, and we're here to ensure it.

Let us hack you before you get hacked!