Patent ID: 8234374

Claim:
A method of mitigating overexposure of shared content, the method comprising: employing one or more processors that execute computer-executable instructions retained in one or more memories, the computer-executable instructions when executed by the one or more processors implement actions comprising: monitoring a plurality of resources and one or more user interactions with one or more of the plurality of resources and the shared content included within a share space in a computing environment; collecting data from the monitored plurality of resources and one or more user interactions with the one or more of the plurality of resources, the data comprising personnel structure information and activities that change the personnel structure information; analyzing data collected from the plurality of resources, the analyzing comprising analyzing user access rights in connection with the shared content included within the share space to determine whether to suggest splitting the share space such that a first portion of the shared content is available for access in a split share space resulting from splitting the share space and a second portion of the shared content is unavailable for access in the split share space resulting from splitting the share space; automatically providing a suggestion to a user to adjust at least a portion of user access rights to the shared content based at least in part upon an analysis of the data to facilitate maintaining consistency in delineating the user access rights; and suspending all access rights to the shared content except those of the user's when the user is unresponsive to the suggestion during a predefined time period.