Chapter 10. Securing Office Server

This chapter discusses how to secure Office Server. We have all seen the high-profile cases in the press when hackers steal digital information. Typically, the stories have been about personal information theft that involves credit card and social security numbers. When you consider the type of information that is stored in a collaborative content management environment like SharePoint, unauthorized access could be devastating to an organization.

This chapter provides an overview of the types of threats to be aware of and the available countermeasures to those threats. It is organized into three sections that focus on securing servers, clients, and content.