SharePoint is Microsoft’s collaboration tool that can be used to host web sites and provide access to shared workspaces, documents and specialized applications such as wikis and blogs. SharePoint sites are actually ASP.NET applications, which are hosted on Microsoft IIS and use a Microsoft SQL Server database as data storage backend.

Lots of marketing pundits are pushing their constituents to social networking – potentially accelerating a wave of enterprise social networking adoption. What about the risks associated with these applications?

On April 15th, we participated in a very successful webinar with Dark Reading entitled “Why Bad Security Breaches Keep Happening To Good Organizations”. During the back and forth between the two speakers, we took a poll of the attendees, asking them the following question:
Which applications do you think are currently running in your organization’s IT [...]