Chapter 6. Securing Your Content

We now know how to create rich and engaging content and how to involve our colleagues in the content creating process. We have been using Confluence for a while now and more and more information has become available.

In this chapter we will learn how to keep our private content private. We will look at the different ways of securing content, but we will also take a look at how we can secure a complete Confluence installation.

The topics we will discuss in this chapter are as follows:

  • Global permissions
  • Space permissions and page restrictions
  • Secure administrator sessions
  • Some security best practices

Accessing the content

So far, all content we have created can be viewed and edited by anyone who has access to Confluence, ...

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