course

Use Atlassian Guard to enforce security


duration

45 minutes

role

Atlassian Cloud Organization Admin

level

Advanced

product

Guard

Secure your organization centrally

Apply user-defined security policies to managed accounts for more visibility over user activity across products. With Atlassian Guard, you can easily configure user provisioning, authentication policies, and single sign-on, and you can enforce two-step verification. You can also improve the visibility of Atlassian product usage in your organization with organization insights.

After this course, you’ll be able to:
  • Explain the benefits of Atlassian Guard.
  • Monitor shadow IT.
  • Revoke API tokens.
  • Use the audit log.
  • Enable Atlassian Guard and sync users through an identity provider.
The availability of features and functionality shown in this course depends on your product subscription. To learn more about Atlassian product subscriptions, visit our FAQs.

4 Lessons in this course

10 minutes
What is Atlassian Guard?

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Describe what Atlassian Guard is - Explain the benefit of using Atlassian Guard - List the Atlassian Guard plans


Sections
  • Atlassian Guard enables org admins to secure their organization centrally
  • Features Atlassian Guard enables
  • How billing works for Atlassian Guard
20 minutes
Explore features of Atlassian Guard

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Differentiate standard and premium features - Leverage different methods of controlling user access - Identify features to monitor activity within your organization - Explain data classification and security policies - Describe the purpose of Guard detect


Sections
  • Which Atlassian Guard plan meets your needs?
  • Control user access
  • Configure authentication policies
  • Configure SAML single sign-on
  • Enforce two-step verification
  • Mobile app management
  • Data security policies
  • Monitor your organization’s activity
  • Revoke API tokens
  • Use the audit log
  • Use organization insights
  • Data classification and security policies
  • Enforce data security policies by data classification
  • What is Guard detect?
10 minutes
Enable Atlassian Guard

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Demonstrate how to enable Atlassian Guard - Summarize high-level steps to syncing users through an identity provider


Sections
  • Implement Atlassian Guard in your organization
  • Sync users with Atlassian Guard
5 minutes
Provisioning users and groups

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Enable user and group provisioning - Provision users and groups


Sections
  • Enable user provisioning in your organization
  • Provisioning users
  • Provisioning groups
  • Deactivate users from your IDP

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