Securing OneDrive and SharePoint with Barracuda Data Inspector

Microsoft 365 is used by over a million companies worldwide. If you work at one of those companies, there’s a good chance that you use OneDrive and/or SharePoint for document storage and knowledge management.

As a cybersecurity practitioner, two critical questions should be at the forefront of your mind: what's inside those documents, and who has access to them?

These questions are pivotal for several reasons:

• Compliance: Staying compliant with data protection regulations like HIPAA and GDPR is crucial to avoid hefty fines.
• Data access control: Ensuring that proprietary data, ranging from customer details to financial information and intellectual property, is only accessible by authorized individuals — a particularly challenging task when sharing data with numerous partners and contractors.
• Malware detection: Identifying and removing dormant malware to safeguard the integrity of your data.
• Data breach mitigation: Minimizing the potential scope of data breaches before they occur.

Surprisingly, Microsoft 365 doesn't provide straightforward solutions to address these concerns, let alone offer mechanisms for monitoring and remediating potential issues.

To effectively manage OneDrive and SharePoint, cybersecurity teams need a solution that enables them to discover, protect, and govern sensitive data and file shares efficiently.

Enter Barracuda Data Inspector.

How Barracuda Data Inspector can help

Data Inspector acts as your data loss prevention sidekick for Microsoft 365, providing a comprehensive view of the data in OneDrive and SharePoint. It automatically scans repositories, classifies data, and notifies administrators when sensitive or malicious files are detected. You can then remediate files swiftly — unshare them, quarantine them, or delete them entirely.

Let’s say your company gets audited. Do you have reporting in place to show your track record of file monitoring? Remediation? With Data Inspector, audit and scan logs are automatically generated. You don’t need to build a thing.

And, recognizing that data compliance is a regional concern with varying requirements, Data Inspector is built to handle complexity. With six data centers worldwide, 150 built-in data classifications (including local classifications for 26 countries), and the ability to create custom classifications (including regular expressions), Data Inspector makes data compliance achievable for organizations of all sizes across the globe.

Data compliance doesn’t have to be a daunting task, and with Data Inspector, achieving it is within reach.

To learn more and safeguard your data, our experts are ready to answer your questions, provide a demo of Data Inspector, or assist you in deploying a free trial in your environment. Learn more and protect your data today!