Re: Assessing SharePoint Security

[Louis Arminio <Lou.Arminio () NAU EDU>]

Here is a link to a security company that has some free tools for evaluating SharePoint sites.  I've seen the search 
tool demonstrated and used it to evaluate our SharePoint site.  

http://www.stachliu.com/resources/tools/ 

Their tool is mostly centered around URL discovery, but they are working on a SharePoint DLP tool as well. 

Their project is really a comprehensive search tool.  It's worth checking out  even if you don' t have SharePoint.  In 
addition to incorporating the GHDB started by Johnny Long and maintained by Exploit-DB.com, the company has developed 
their own search DBs.  They use the Google Custom Search API and Bing 2.0 API to automate searches, and provide 
instructions on how to get accounts and set up access to the APIs.

Lou.
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Lou Arminio
Senior Information Security Analyst
Northern Arizona University
Information Technology Services
1300 S Knoles Dr, NAU Box 5100
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
Lou.Arminio () nau edu
Ph:(928) 523-6462
Fax:(928) 523-7407

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of 
Woodruff, Dan
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 8:03 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Assessing SharePoint Security

SharePoint is used heavily as a collaboration tool and documentation repository in our environment, and we are trying 
to determine the best approach to take to assess its security. One activity we would like to perform is to scan 
document repository content for sensitive data. Since the backend for SharePoint is a database, we'd have to figure out 
a way to extract the documents to flat files so they could be examined en masse. Are there any tools that will automate 
the extraction? 

Other than assessing the application to standards and policies, how are other schools assessing SharePoint? Are you 
performing any kind of technical assessment such as a penetration test and if so, has it been a valuable (actionable) 
exercise? I fear performing a web application penetration test of such a dynamic and complex application would be a 
daunting task with little valuable output.

Thank you for any insight,

Dan Woodruff
University IT Security and Policy
University of Rochester