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Atlassian Confluence Connector Overview

This connector enables you to use Data Access Security to access and analyze data stored in Atlassian Confluence and do the following:

  • Analyze the structure of your stored data (resource discovery / crawl).
  • Classify the data being stored.
  • Integrate with Identity Security Cloud Source — connect to an Identity Security Cloud Source to gather accounts and entitlements.

Refer to the Data Access Security documentation for a full description.

Installation Flow Overview

  1. Set up the prerequisites (Atlassian account and API token).
  2. Add an Identity Security Cloud Atlassian Suite Cloud source and an Identity Collector.
  3. Add a new Atlassian Confluence application to Data Access Security.
  4. Configure and schedule resource discovery (crawler).
  5. Configure and schedule data classification.

Atlassian Confluence Connector Operation Principles

  • Data Access Security connects to Atlassian Confluence using the Confluence Cloud REST API v2 (with attachment download via the documented download link / Media redirect).
  • Authentication uses HTTP Basic Auth with an Atlassian account email and an API token. See: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/basic-auth-for-rest-apis/
  • The connector discovers spaces and content hierarchy (pages, live docs, folders, databases, whiteboards, smart links / embeds).
  • Data classification reads page body storage HTML and attachment bytes for eligible crawled resources.

Resource Discovery Operation Principles

The crawler discovers Confluence business resources and builds the resource tree used by Data Access Security.

  • Top-level virtual containers: Shared Spaces and Personal Spaces.
  • Under each container: spaces, then content under each space (pages, live docs, folders, databases, whiteboards, smart links).
  • Resource paths use the Confluence wiki web URL shape (for example https://.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces//...).
  • Attachments are not discovered as crawl resources, rather they are listed and read only during data classification.
  • Blog posts are not collected in this release.
  • Crawl scope is not supported in this release — the crawler discovers all spaces and content visible to the configured account.

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