Security is the top most important priority in today's digital world. Ensuring only authorized personnel will have access to the data stored in Jira to prevent any potential information leak is something every Jira administrator needs to keep track of. To ensure there are proper security controls in place, Jira provides a number of options to control access permissions to the data it stores.
Global permissions, as the name suggests, is the highest permission level in Jira. These are coarse-grained permissions applied globally across Jira, controlling broad security levels, such as the ability to administer various configuration settings.
Global permissions can only be granted to groups. For this reason, you will need to organize your users into logical groups for global permissions to take effect. For example, you will want to have all your administrators belong to a single group, such as the JIRA-administrators group, so you can grant them administration...