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Org admins get two places to limit what external AI tools do through the Atlassian MCP server: the Permissions tab and a Guard data security policy. We tested both on our own org. Blocking the Jira write toolset stopped Jira writes from OAuth and API-token connections within 18 seconds. The data security policy only held on the V2 endpoint.
Gabriela Perdum12 min read
Confluence data classification needs Atlassian Guard Premium, and admins keep finding that out on the Atlassian Community. Sentinel Vault 6 gives every page a classification level either way: its own levels, levels imported from Jira Service Management Assets, or Confluence's own when your site has them.
Gabriela Perdum8 min read
An Atlassian data security policy has seven controls, and only one of them works without Atlassian Guard: blocking all Marketplace and custom apps from chosen spaces. This post walks through what each control blocks, what the app access rule really takes away from an app, what the admin API says when you try a Guard control without Guard, and what happens to policies and classification levels on a Data Center to Cloud or Cloud to Cloud migration.
Gabriela Perdum11 min read
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