Symantec Data Loss Prevention supports a variety of authentication modes for scanning Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and 2013 sites.

By default, SharePoint 2010 uses classic-mode authentication through the Windows Basic authentication protocol. You can configure NTLM or Kerberos authentication protocols in SharePoint 2010. Symantec Data Loss Prevention supports classic-mode authentication through Basic, NTLM, and Kerberos protocols for SharePoint 2010 sites as described in the Solution section of this article. Symantec Data Loss Prevention does not support claims-based authentication for SharePoint 2010 sites.

By default, SharePoint 2013 uses claims-based authentication through NTLM or Kerberos protocols. Windows classic-mode authentication is deprecated in SharePoint 2013, and is not supported by Symantec Data Loss Prevention. Symantec Data Loss Prevention supports claims-based authentication as described in the Solution section of this article.

Supported authentication modes for SharePoint 2010

Symantec Data Loss Prevention supports classic-mode authentication through the following authentication protocols for scanning SharePoint 2010 sites:

• Basic
• NTLM v1
• NTLM v2
• Kerberos

Supported authentication modes for SharePoint 2013

Symantec Data Loss Prevention supports claims-based authentication using ADFS as the identity provider through the following protocols for scanning SharePoint 2013 sites:

• NTLM v1
• NTLM v2
• Kerberos

Unsupported authentication modes for SharePoint 2010 and 2013

• Symantec Data Loss Prevention does not support claims-based authentication for SharePoint 2010 sites.
• Symantec Data Loss Prevention does not support classic authentication for SharePoint 2013 sites.
• Symantec Data Loss Prevention does not support scanning SharePoint 2013 sites that have been configured with any other claims-based identity provider, including SAML and form-based providers.

For DLP 16.0 we support the following:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/symantec-security-software/information-security/data-loss-prevention/16-0/discover-targets-vont_0180-d263e198/setting-up-server-scans-of-sharepoint-servers-v40249558-d263e13162/configuring-and-running-sharepoint-server-scans-v40249567-d263e13341.html

For access privilege's please see:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/symantec-security-software/information-security/data-loss-prevention/16-0/discover-targets-vont_0180-d263e198/setting-up-server-scans-of-sharepoint-servers-v40249558-d263e13162/access-privileges-for-sharepoint-scans-v41517493-d263e13314.html#v41517493

For DLP 15.8 please see the following link:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/symantec-security-software/information-security/data-loss-prevention/15-8/discover-targets-vont_0180-d263e198/setting-up-server-scans-of-sharepoint-servers-v40249558-d263e13162/configuring-and-running-sharepoint-server-scans-v40249567-d263e13341.html