Chris is a Senior Software Engineer at ThreeWill. His area of focus is consulting in the development of Microsoft .NET and SharePoint technologies. His primary role has been development lead in recent projects. Project roles have ranged from Development/Technical Lead to Development Resource.
An Opinion About Security in Microsoft 365
In my opinion, I feel that having content in Microsoft 365 is more secure than being stored on-premises. Based on the initial top-ten list of questions, you OWN your data. So it is still your responsibility for how access to the data is configured (custom permissions, external users, etc).
Note: External users can invite other external users to a site; sometimes without site administrator approval and sometimes when the site does not allow invites to the members group. I mention this so you are aware and can monitor external user access.
I still feel that it is secure in the sense that Microsoft applies best practices in design and operations, including redundancy, resiliency, distributed services, and monitoring. This is not always the case for companies that keep their content on-premises.
What do you think?
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Kirk Liemohn
I agree, but we are finding some interesting anomalies with how external sharing works in SharePoint Online. You mention one, but there are more details to share. Hopefully we can share as a blog post soon.