Further boost cloud security with new Atlassian Guard features

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Hello Atlassian Community!

My name is Sandy and I lead product marketing for Atlassian Guard. In today's world, security isn't just a nice-to-have—it's a must. We know our customers want more flexibility in security controls and more efficiency in how you scale access management. This is why we launched Guard Premium and continued to deliver new capabilities and enhancements for both plans of Atlassian Guard.

I am delighted to bring you some exciting updates our team has built for Atlassian Guard – all to give you peace of mind, knowing that your data is protected and your processes are streamlined. Whether you’re a security expert or an admin who wants to keep their organization secure, these new features are designed with you in mind.

What’s new in Guard Premium?

We built Atlassian Guard Premium to provide you with granular controls and actionable detections that quickly alert you of suspicious activity and data misuse. Since the general availability launch in October, we’ve heard from customers about how they want more policy controls, more detection types, and automation to make their work more efficient. We’ve continued to focus on delivering just that!

Guard Premium now helps you spot unusual activities across more surface areas and automates responses to alerts. With features like Jira content scanning, remediation automation rules, and data redaction, you can stay ahead of potential risks effortlessly. Guard Premium can now help you:

Protect data with more granular classification policies

• Org-level default classification for Confluence – apply an overarching rule across your organization then apply exceptions to the data security policy

• Block anonymous access to Confluence content by classification – protect classified content by preventing people with anonymous access from viewing

• API integration for classification labels in Jira – automate data classification labels to Jira with your org-wide cybersecurity tool, such as Zscaler

Stay alert with new detection coverage

• Jira content scanning – detect potentially sensitive data being added to Jira issues, including credentials, financial data, and identity data
  

• Detect mobile app policy changes – monitor for potentially suspicious behavior as it relates to any shifts in mobile security policies

• Detect API user token created / revoked – ensure compliance and quickly track token creation history in event of an incident

Automate how you respond to alerts & redact data

• Investigation & remediation automation rules for Confluence – streamline alert remediations by automating the workflow for alerts with clear remediation processes
  

• Redact sensitive data in Confluence content – comply with strict data retention policies by redacting data directly from the alert
  

Guard Standard gets a boost too!

Guard Standard provides centralized visibility and flexible security controls to help you manage user access securely and efficiently. In the last few months, managing user access just got a whole lot simpler. Guard Standard now lets you enforce single sign-on for external users and sync user attributes more flexibly. Plus, it supports up to 500K users, so you can scale without a hitch. Guard Standard can now help you:

Protect user access and data with granular policies

• Enforce single sign-on (SSO) on external users – apply a policy to require external users, such as contractors and consultants, to authenticate through SSO before accessing content
  

• Sync user principal name (UPN) attributes from Microsoft Entra – ability to sync UPN, instead of email addresses, as the primary identifier for users

• Block anonymous access to Confluence content by product/space – protect content by preventing people with anonymous access from viewing specific products and spaces

• Multiple mobile app management (MAM) policies – create multiple MAM policies to manage varying levels of restriction for different mobile apps
  

• Public APIs to manage data security policies – efficiently manage the lifecycle of data security policies (create, update, activate) with APIs

• SCIM support for 500K users – supports a growing number of users via SCIM

Want to dive deeper?

If you're curious to learn more about how these features can work for your organization, check out our free 30-day trial. If you want some help getting started:

• Explore our guide and watch some step-by-step demo videos of Guard Premium

• Register for the next webinar to see a full demo and chat live with Guard product experts

We can't wait to see how you continue to innovate while keeping your data safe with these new features. Which of theses capabilities are you most excited for? Are there additional security capabilities you want to see in the future? Comment below!