Phew it's on-prem
Luckily on-prem SharePoint is a hellish nightmare, so was mostly avoided by my clients and ditched by the few when they got 365.
Ransomware has officially entered the Microsoft SharePoint exploitation ring. Late Wednesday, in an update to its earlier warning, Redmond confirmed that a threat group it tracks as Storm-2603 is abusing vulnerable on-premises SharePoint servers to deploy ransomware. The software giant had already pinned blame on three crews …
My working theory is that you could delete every sharepoint site on earth and probably nobody would care (not only that: nobody would even notice).
It’s like how hackers were attacking FBI website, etc. Honestly, if nobody ever mentioned it, how would you know?
You would probably not notice it for the rest of your life, is what the truth is.
Managing security and access at the SharePoint is like trying to waterproof a biscuit.
Whereas it is (theoretically) possible to have Security and SharePoint, it certainly would make the experience so undesirable that it would see even less usage.
On a related topic, was there ever a company in existence whose SharePoint administration didn't go bald after three years? And stopped being useful/updated after four years?