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Implementing Atlassian Confluence

By : Eren Kalelioğlu
Book Image

Implementing Atlassian Confluence

By: Eren Kalelioğlu

Overview of this book

Implementing Atlassian Confluence is an all-encompassing guide to the essential concepts of distributed work and leveraging Confluence to create a world-class collaboration environment. This book begins with an introduction to enterprise collaboration concepts and explains how to set up Confluence. You’ll quickly proceed to creating and maintaining dynamic content, effective cross-functional collaboration, and employing Confluence applications in scenarios such as software project management and knowledge bases. You’ll discover how to use Jira Service Management together with Confluence, set up personal spaces, implement centralized user management, address security risks, and explore suggested solutions on Confluence. Furthermore, you’ll integrate and extend Confluence with other Atlassian and third-party software. The book also contains tips and guidance on managing Confluence adoption, enabling you to focus on your team and provide them with a state-of-the-art remote collaboration environment. Complete with practical business scenarios, best practices, and examples, this book will help you gain a comprehensive understanding of Atlassian Confluence’s capabilities for enhancing collaboration within cross-functional teams.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1:Preparing for Confluence
7
Part 2:Building a Real Confluence Site
13
Part 3:Scaling Business

Security measures on Confluence

Learning what you can do regarding security will help create an effective and sustainable information security policy. It is also beneficial to think about the following layers of security in the Confluence environment:

  • Atlassian site and Confluence security settings
  • Securing user accounts
  • Securing Confluence spaces
  • Securing Confluence pages
  • Security on Atlassian Marketplace apps
  • Securing integrations

Atlassian site and Confluence security settings

When you view Confluence’s settings, you will see many options in the SECURITY section.

Figure 12.1 – The SECURITY section of the Atlassian site and Confluence security settings

As shown in the previous screenshot, there are six options in the SECURITY section:

  • Users
  • Groups
  • Security Configuration
  • Global Permissions
  • Space Permissions
  • Analytics Permissions

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