From the course: Information Management: Document Security

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Create separate spaces for external documents

Create separate spaces for external documents

From the course: Information Management: Document Security

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Create separate spaces for external documents

- [Instructor] One good practice that you may want to follow to help keep your documents secure, create a separate and sequestered space for sharing files with your external partners. Now, this could take the form of a separate SharePoint library or a separate folder in Google or Box, or even go so far as a separate server that's reserved for partner access. The benefits are obvious. If the space your partners use contain only information that you want them to see, the chance of exposing other files drops dramatically. Now, I have a confession to make. I find permissioning at the folder level to be confusing and inefficient. I've seen sensitive materials be exposed to the wrong people because they were stored in a folder within a folder within a folder. And although the information wasn't granted to the external partner in that folder, it wasn't realized until too late that they had access because the permissions were…

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