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    Begin Scanning a Confluence App

    Add your Confluence app to Data Security to begin scanning and monitoring assets for possible security risks.
    Where Can I Use This?What Do I Need?
    • Strata Cloud Manager
    • Data Security license
    Or any of the following licenses that include the Data Security license:
    • CASB-X
    • CASB-PA
    • Data Security scans only global spaces. It does not scan personal spaces.
    • Data Security does not scan Confluence Free versions.
    Support for automated remediation capabilities varies by SaaS application.

    Supported Content

    The following table lists the supported content for the Confluence app.
    Support For
    Details
    Scan Content
    		Page content, Attachments, Comments
    Backward Scan
    Yes
    Forward Scan
    Yes
    Selective Scan
    No
    Exposure
    Internal, External, Public
    Internal exposure is supported only when you have your email visibility set to global visibility in the Confluence app. Data Security does not scan personal spaces.
    Data Security does not scan Confluence Free versions.
    Remediation Actions
    • User Quarantine—No
    • Admin Quarantine—Yes, only files
    • Change Sharing—No
    Notifications
    • Notify File Owner—Yes
    • Notify Via Slack—Yes (applicable only if you have onboarded Slack Enterprise or Slack Pro and Business)
    Post-Remediation Actions (Actions after Admin Quarantine):
    Yes
    User Activities
    • Activity Monitoring—Yes
    • Activity Alerting—Yes
    • Folder Monitoring—No
    Snippet Support
    Yes
    Known License/Version restrictions
    Supported Versions
    • Confluence Cloud
    Caveats/Notes
    None

    Prepare To Add Confluence App

    Before you begin, verify that you have the correct permissions and follow any recommendations to ensure an efficient and successful onboarding. By default, the site-admins group or administrators group on Confluence provides the necessary permissions to onboard the Confluence app.
    1. (Recommended) Add your Confluence domain as an internal domain.
    2. Verify that your Confluence account has Administrator permissions.

    Add Confluence App

    1. Log in to your Confluence cloud account (for example, https://acmecorp.atlassian.net/) with administrator privileges.
    2. Log in to Strata Cloud Manager.
    3. Select ManageConfigurationSaaS SecurityData SecurityApplicationsAdd ApplicationConfluence .
    4. In Configuration, enter the Confluence URL—the URL that you use to log in to your Confluence cloud account and Connect.
      Sample workspace URL format: https://acmecorp.atlassian.net/wiki
    5. Give Palo Alto Networks access to your Atlassian account.
    6. On successful onboarding, Data Security displays the following message:
      Data Security adds the new Confluence app to the Cloud Apps list as Confluence n, where n is the number of Confluence app instances that you connected to Data Security. For example, if you added one Confluence app, the name displays as Confluence 1 . You can rename your instance as per your requirement.
    7. Next step: Proceed to Identify Risks and begin scanning your assets.

    Identify Risks

    When you add a new cloud app and enable scanning, Data Security automatically scans the cloud app against the default data patterns and displays the match occurrences. You can take action now to improve your scan results and identify risks.
    1. To start scanning the new Confluence app for risks, select ManageConfigurationSaaS SecurityData SecurityApplicationsConfluenceView Settings...Start Scanning.
    2. Monitor the scan results.
      During the discovery phase, Data Security scans files and matches them against enabled default policy rules.
      Verify that your default policy rules are effective. If the results don’t capture all the risks or you see false positives, proceed to the next step.
    3. (Optional) Add new policy rules.
      Consider the business use of your app, then identify risks unique to your enterprise. As necessary, add new:
    4. (Optional) Configure or edit a data pattern.
      You can Configure Data Patterns to identify specific strings of text, characters, words, or patterns to make it possible to find all instances of text that match a data pattern you specify.

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