Dynamic access control for SharePoint

With the 2007 release of Microsoft SharePoint - and even more so with the eminent 2010 release - organizations are increasingly looking to extend their SharePoint portals to serve external users.

In particular, many organizations are extending SharePoint in a business to business scenario requiring secure identification and authorization of business partners and their users.

The general response so far has been to create separate user databases for maintaining application specific accounts for outside users. This approach carries not only significant development costs but also an ongoing administrative overhead.

The challenge in this scenario is that you - and your business partners - get yet another user directory to manage, with the risk of getting out of sync with organizational structure and actual users. The most obvious risk is a former partner employee that never gets removed from the extranet user database. The extranet is thus left open to misuse by the proverbial disgruntled former employee.

To eliminate these and other issues, Safewhere offers a complete solution tightly integrated into SharePoint, with broad access control enforcement across not only SharePoint, but the entire web and service oriented architecture.

To learn more, read the whitepaper on the challenges of authentication and authorization with Microsoft SharePoint.