Guard Rewind: Our 2025 highlight reel, plus a look at what’s next

Neha Lenin

Welcome to your 2025 Guard Rewind. It’s been an amazing year: from shipping highly requested features to hosting webinars and demos to help you learn more about Guard, we’ve been busy. Let’s rewind the tape on the best moments of 2025 — and press play on what’s coming next in 2026.

In 2025, we...

Your feedback helps shape our roadmap, and this year we focused on capabilities that help you reduce risk while staying efficient. We rolled out more granular controls for data security policies and content redaction to help you stay ahead of threats, along with new automation options so you can spend more time where it matters most.

Here are the highlights:

Guard Standard

Service accounts supporting OAuth 2.0	Centrally manage service accounts separately from user accounts with dedicated, secure identities for non-human actors.
Authentication policy automation	Automate authentication policies by auto-including users when they are synced or unsynced from an identity provider (IdP) and when group memberships change, updating profiles accordingly.
SCIM provisioning for customer accounts	Automatically provision and deactivate Jira Service Management portal-only customer accounts when users are added or removed from an external directory.
Sync additional SCIM attributes	Sync additional SCIM user provisioning attributes, such as profile picture, location, employee ID, and manager.
Customize social logins displayed on login screen	Allow users to sign in with your organization’s preferred identity providers by customizing the login screen.
Microsoft Intune MAM integration	Manage and secure corporate data within mobile applications, without requiring control over the entire device, with Microsoft Intune–protected versions of the Confluence and Jira mobile apps.
Audit log for site admins	Allow site admins to access audit logs relevant to the sites they oversee within Atlassian Administration, so they can investigate site activities more effectively.

Guard Premium

Enforce data security policies with classification levels	Apply data security policies (such as prevent page export) based on classification levels.
Investigation & remediation automation rules for Jira & Confluence	Set up automation rules to support investigation and remediation, such as restricting pages when sensitive content is detected.
Redact sensitive data in Jira content	Remediate sensitive data by redacting the content directly from an alert.
Improved audit log investigations with query language - EAP	Streamline audit log investigations with Audit Log Query Language, which provides a more robust and flexible querying system.
Block downloading of attachments in Confluence	Leverage data security policies to block download of attachments in Confluence.
Implement org-level default classification	Implement a default classification level that will apply to all your Jira and Confluence apps.

Alongside these product updates, we took the stage at Team '25, partnered with Forrester, and hosted webinars to share our latest insights on cloud security and best practices for Guard. Here’s our pick of the top three resources to bookmark:

1️⃣ Team '25 Europe Breakout: Embarking on cloud with a security-first mindset

In this breakout session, Atlassian’s CISO kicked things off with a behind-the-scenes look at how we build with a security-first mindset. Then, our Head of Product for Information Protection shared a vision of what’s next, before wrapping up with a fireside chat featuring vehicle manufacturer Daimler Truck AG to unpack real-world strategies for securing data and scaling safely.

2️⃣ Atlassian Guard Standard: Save time & secure sensitive data

In this Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Atlassian, discover how leading organizations are using Guard Standard to further secure their Atlassian Cloud environments. Learn how one organization with 5,000+ users achieved a 95% reduction in investigation time, improved admin efficiency, and strengthened security – all while saving over $10,000 per month.

3️⃣ Kickstart your security: Getting started with Atlassian Guard Premium

In this webinar, we guided users through the essentials of setting up Atlassian Guard Premium, offering actionable strategies to protect data, detect threats, and refine security approaches.

Now that we’ve wrapped up the highlights from 2025, let’s take a look at what’s on the horizon for Guard in 2026.

This year, we will continue shipping capabilities that bring you more granularity, visibility, and control over your organization’s data — all with increased efficiency.

Here’s what’s on our roadmap so far:

And it's not just new capabilities we have planned. Next month, join us for Guard in Action: a virtual event for admins and security pros looking to strengthen cloud security across their Atlassian apps.

Tune in to see:

• New Guard capabilities and our vision for the future from our product team

• Real customer stories and expert insights on the latest industry trends shaping cloud security

• Practical strategies to strengthen your security posture with in-product demos

One last thing — want to earn rewards? (Who doesn’t?) Join Guard's customer recognition program and you’ll receive rewards that can be redeemed for gift cards, donations, and more. Just create a quick profile and answer a few questions about yourself and your experience with Guard – it’s that simple!

Thanks for reading! 👋

Rune Rasmussen

Customizing social logins on login screen is not really what the name would imply.
It's an on/off toggle.

We would like to only show Microsoft and remove all the other options, but we can't do that.

 

Sync additional SCIM attributes is technically correct, but these attributes are not reachable in the places where they would have the greatest benefit - Automation.

So we can sync a users Manager attribute but can't use it to automatically set an approver on requests.

 

The Service Accounts are pretty nice though.