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Data Protection and Security Toolkit 4.8.0 has been released

Rustem Shiriiazdanov • 25. August 2026
Version 4.8.0 makes long-running searches survivable: interrupted runs are detected and restarted, and large manual searches resume instead of starting over. It also adds Confluence inline comments and comment replies, runs every search as the app instead of a chosen Actor, and puts a sending ceiling on email notifications.
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Data Protection Toolkit vs Atlassian Guard: what each one actually covers

Nikoloz Surmanidze • 18. August 2026

Last reviewed: 18 August 2026. Atlassian Guard and Data Protection Toolkit are not really competitors, and choosing between them on features usually means one of them was the wrong question. Guard governs who gets in and tells you when something looks wrong. Data Protection Toolkit finds personal…
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Best Atlassian Data Privacy and Compliance Apps: A Guide by Category

Nikoloz Surmanidze • 18. August 2026

Last reviewed: 18 August 2026. There is no single best data privacy app for Atlassian, because the category contains four different jobs and most tools only do one of them. Some find and remove personal data that is already stored. Some classify and label content so policy can be applied to it. Some stop…
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Data Masking in Jira: How to Mask, Redact and Anonymize Issue Fields

Nikoloz Surmanidze • 18. August 2026

Last reviewed: 18 August 2026. Jira has no built-in field masking. There are three ways to achieve it, and they are not interchangeable. You can restrict who sees a field using issue security levels and field configurations, which hides data rather than removing it. You can use a field-level app that…
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PII Detection in Confluence: Where Personal Data Hides and How to Find It

Nikoloz Surmanidze • 18. August 2026

Last reviewed: 18 August 2026. To find personal data in Confluence you need to scan four places, and most tools only cover the first: page bodies, page history, comments, and attachments. A PII detection app scans all four against pattern templates such as email addresses, phone numbers, national…
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DLP for Confluence: How Data Loss Prevention Actually Works in Atlassian

Nikoloz Surmanidze • 18. August 2026

Last reviewed: 18 August 2026. DLP for Confluence is not the same thing as network DLP. Traditional data loss prevention watches traffic leaving your network. Confluence DLP has to work inside the content itself, scanning pages, blog posts, comments, attachments and page history for sensitive data…
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