Numerous users have identified ‘SharePoint Sprawl’ as one of the major drawbacks of the platform, as data governance, management and upkeep has become increasingly more difficult and disorganized as scalability rises. One example is noted in this article recently published in Tech Target.
Moreover, collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and SharePoint have also proven to be difficult to manage from a data governance standpoint. As companies grow and data “sprawls” across their existing organizational structure, management of access and security becomes increasingly challenging for many existing collaboration platforms, including as SharePoint or Microsoft Teams.
Addressing this issue, Torsion Information Security has developed a proprietary method of seamlessly integrating with existing collaboration platforms to provide top notch security and compliance capabilities. Torsion allows efficient management of access to make data governance a more efficient and simple process. This method sheds light on the possibility of revamping existing collaboration systems, such as Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, and enhancing it to plug some of the more difficult security and compliance challenges it had presented previously.
Torsion offers a unique and innovating solution to help organizations better manage their collaboration platforms, to plug security vulnerabilities and prevent any compliance issues by safeguarding and streamlining the companies’ internal channels of information, allowing companies to build on, rather than move away from collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.
Torsion’s approach removes the need for manual and IT-centric data governance and oversight – which has proven to be troublesome, slow and inefficient in the past. Simply put, organizations have too much data, too many people, and too much business change for data governance to be effectively delivered by any manual, human-driven process or tools. Organizations are also highly dynamic in structure, meaning there is constant change in the very type of data, as well what constitutes appropriate access to that data. Access to data, for instance, is shared on average, up to forty-four times more than it is revoked, presenting a situation where ‘who has access to what’ tends to accumulate and sprawl at a rapid rate.
The solution also addresses this issue in data governance by integrating its cloud based, easy to install approach with existing collaboration tools. Torsion’s cloud-based solution can enable your constant flows of information within the cloud, already moving at a prolific rate, to happen in way that allows you to maintain visibility and control. If Torsion detects any inappropriate access, it will promptly alert and shut down any potential breaches, while running seamlessly in the background until and unless it is required.
Torsion’s solution is also capable of dynamically adjusting itself to any changes in organizational structure, so that ‘who has access to what’ files and folders is updated and maintained automatically. If there are any changes, such as a change in role, data governance, access and security will automatically update themselves. Compliance is also made extremely simple, as Torsion’s cloud technology gives owners of information the ability to certify and revoke access themselves, making validation of access and overall data governance much easier. Periodic reviews are also implemented and so, data owners will have to regularly update certifications and access, making this an extremely intelligent approach to combat the data governance drawbacks of collaboration suites like Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.