How to govern Security in Confluence
A step-by-step guide to governing Security in Confluence with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Security in Confluence means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Confluence with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Security.
Steps
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Inventory Confluence
Connect Confluence and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Security in Confluence to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Confluence reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Confluence controls for Security
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Confluence catalog on the Confluence connector page.
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Space is publicly reachable (anonymous access)
Spaces open to anonymous users are internet-facing, raising the likelihood that any weakness is exploited.
Severity: High -
User account is active
Active accounts are live entry points, raising the likelihood that an access issue is exploited.
Severity: Medium -
App is enabled (live)
Enabled apps run live with their granted scopes, raising the likelihood that a weakness is exploited.
Severity: Medium -
Principal holds site system-admin grant
System-admin grants have site-wide reach, raising the likelihood that an access issue causes serious impact.
Severity: High -
Confluence space with anonymous access
Detects spaces that allow unauthenticated (anonymous) access.
Severity: High -
Confluence space editable by many users
Detects spaces where more than 50 users or groups have edit permissions.
Severity: High -
Confluence space with too many admins
Detects spaces with more than 5 space administrators.
Severity: Medium -
Confluence page restriction granted to anonymous
Detects page-level restriction grants that include the 'anonymous' principal.
Severity: High -
Confluence global admin permission grant
Detects principals that hold the global 'confluence-admin' permission.
Severity: High -
Personal space of inactive user
Detects personal spaces whose owner is no longer an active user.
Severity: High -
External user holds Confluence space admin
Detects customer-type principals that hold the 'admin' operation on a space.
Severity: High -
Confluence app with broad admin scope enabled
Detects enabled apps that hold admin or write-broad OAuth scopes.
Severity: High -
Spaces with anonymous access
Lists Confluence spaces that have anonymous access enabled.
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External users by email domain
External (customer-type) Confluence accounts grouped by the domain portion of their email.
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Audit events per week by category
Audit events grouped weekly and broken down by event category.
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Spaces with anonymous access
Shows Confluence spaces that have anonymous access enabled.
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Personal spaces of inactive users
Shows personal spaces where the owning user is no longer active.
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Global Confluence admins
Shows principals that hold the 'confluence-admin' global permission.
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Deactivate Confluence User
Deactivates a Confluence Cloud user after approval.
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Remove Confluence Space Permission
Removes a space permission entry after approval.
