How to govern Security in SharePoint
A step-by-step guide to governing Security in SharePoint with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Security in SharePoint means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for SharePoint with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Security.
Steps
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Inventory SharePoint
Connect SharePoint and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Security in SharePoint to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the SharePoint reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
SharePoint controls for Security
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full SharePoint catalog on the SharePoint connector page.
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SharePoint file is shared with external users
Detects SharePoint files that have been shared externally, potentially exposing sensitive data.
Severity: High -
SharePoint site collection is owned by external users
Identifies SharePoint site collections where external users are in ownership roles, increasing security risks.
Severity: High -
SharePoint subsite has unique permissions
Detects SharePoint subsites that have unique permissions, making security management complex.
Severity: Medium -
SharePoint agent is not approved
Identifies SharePoint agents that have not been reviewed or approved before use, posing security risks.
Severity: Low -
SharePoint agent references confidential site without approval
Identifies SharePoint agents connected to confidential sites without approval, increasing the risk of unauthorized AI-generated responses.
Severity: High -
SharePoint site has broken permission inheritance
Detects SharePoint sites where permission inheritance is broken, increasing security risks.
Severity: Medium -
SharePoint site collection lacks sensitivity label
Detects SharePoint site collections missing sensitivity labels, increasing data security risks.
Severity: Medium
