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Security and access policies
Security and access policies

Documentation

  • Learn about security solutions and standards
    • How to keep my organization secure?
    • Understand Atlassian Guard
    • Atlassian Guard app and plan availability
    • Supported security protocols for Atlassian cloud apps
  • Configure authentication policies for your organization
    • Understand authentication policies
    • What is a default authentication policy?
    • What is a non-billable policy?
    • Edit authentication settings and members
    • Authentication policy settings for your organizations
  • Configure single sign-on for your organization
    • Configure SAML single sign-on
      • Configure SAML single sign-on with an identity provider
      • Configure SAML single sign-on for portal-only customers
      • Configure SAML single sign-on with AD FS
    • Require users to log in with Google
  • Configure settings for secure user login
    • Manage your password policy
    • Enforce two-step verification
    • Update idle session duration
    • Configure your organization’s login page
    • Set mobile app session expiration
    • Report and track data across your organization
      • Gain insights into app usage and security practices
      • Track storage and move data across apps
      • Export user accounts
        • Export users from a site
        • Export managed accounts
        • Export accounts from domains
      • Track user API tokens in your organization
        • Understand user API tokens
        • View user API tokens
        • Revoke user API tokens
    • Manage data residency
      • Understand data residency
      • Move product data to another location
      • Moving your Marketplace apps data to another location
    • Maintain secure access to apps
      • Specify IP addresses for app access
      • Manage your organization's Marketplace and third-party apps
      • Manage third-party contacts
      • Mobile App Management for Atlassian mobile apps
        • Security settings in a mobile app policy
        • Create a mobile app policy
        • Edit a mobile app policy
        • Delete a mobile app policy
        • Test a mobile app policy
        • What will my users experience when I set a mobile policy?
      • Mobile Device Management (MDM) for Atlassian mobile apps
        • Create an AppConfig JSON string for iOS
        • What are the AppConfig settings for my MDM?
        • MDM security controls and supported apps
      • What happens when third-party apps access third-party websites?
    • Classify your organization’s data
      • What is data classification?
      • What can users classify?
      • Manage classification levels
        • Create a classification level
        • Customize a classification level
        • Publish a classification level
        • Archive a classification level
        • Restore a classification level
      • Understand default classification levels
        • What is a default classification level?
        • Set a default classification level
    • Control how users outside your organization access apps
      • Understand external user security
        • Who are external users?
        • What is external user security?
        • What is an external user security policy?
        • Available external user security policy settings
        • What is API token access?
      • Edit external user security settings
        • Make external user policy non-billable
        • Block user API token access
        • Add test policy
        • Export external users
        • Reset sessions for external users
        • Apply authorization method
        • Update session expiration
        • Edit external user policy
    • Detect, investigate, and respond to threats
      • What is Guard Detect?
      • Add Guard Detect to your organization
      • Add people to Guard Detect
      • Manage detections
        • What user activity is detected?
        • What sensitive data is detected?
        • Exclude a page from a detection
        • Exclude a user from a detection
        • Create a custom detection
        • Request a new system detection
      • Manage alerts
        • View an alert
        • Get more or fewer alerts
        • Track the status of an alert
      • Send alerts to your own tools
        • Send alerts to Slack
        • Send alerts to Microsoft Teams
        • Send alerts to a SIEM or other tool
        • Send alerts to Jira
        • Send alerts to Opsgenie
        • Send alerts to Splunk
      • Investigate and remediate an alert
      • Respond to alerts
        • Create an automation rule
        • How does automation work with Guard Detect?
        • Redact sensitive data from Confluence
        • Redact sensitive data from Jira
        • What happens when data is redacted?
      • Guard Detect frequently asked questions
    • Manage bring your own key encryption
      • Manage your encryption
        • Use Customer-managed keys (CMK) encryption
          • What is CMK encryption?
          • Set up AWS account and create a KMS key policy
          • Set up CMK-enabled Atlassian apps
          • Update AWS KMS key policy for your Atlassian cloud organization
          • Revoke Atlassian access to your KMS encryption keys
          • Restore access to your CMK encryption keys
          • Request CMK re-encryption
        • Use Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) encryption
          • What is BYOK encryption?
          • Set up an AWS account and create an IAM role
          • Set up BYOK encryption
          • Revoke access to your BYOK encryption keys
          • Restore access to your BYOK encryption keys
          • Request BYOK re-encryption
          • BYOK encryption limitations
        • Data managed with encryption
        • Encryption frequently asked questions
      • Monitor and audit activity in your organization
        • What activities does the audit log include?
        • View audit log activities
        • Export audit log
        • Send audit log activities to another tool using a webhook
        • Audit log activities database
      • Secure your organization's data
        • What is a data security policy?
        • Create a data security policy
        • Edit a data security policy
        • Deactivate or delete a data security policy
        • Manage data security policy rules
          • Prevent data export
          • Prevent public links
          • Prevent anonymous access
          • Block third-party app access
          • Third-party app access rule coverage summary
          • Apps that cannot be blocked by app access rules
          • Third-party app access rule coverage summary for Confluence Cloud
          • Third-party app access rule coverage summary for Jira Cloud
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      3. Classify your organization’s data

      Manage classification levels

      A data classification level can be created, published, archived, and restored by an organization admin.

      • Create a classification level

        Create a classification level and make it available to users.

      • Customize a classification level

        Change classification level details like name, definition, and guidelines.

      • Publish a classification level

        Make classification levels available for users to apply to data.

      • Archive a classification level

        Archive classification levels you don’t need.

      • Restore a classification level

        Restore a classification level from the archive.

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