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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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Data Protection and Security Toolkit 4.7.0 has been released

Rustem Shiriiazdanov • 23. July 2026
Version 4.7.0 gives content-update searches their own dedicated scheduling capacity, so they start immediately even while long full-instance searches are running. It also adds a per-user rows-per-page control, shows why each search ran in template history, and resolves a batch of Confluence and hybrid-instance reliability issues.
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