App security
Category: Collaboration
Secure Confluence browsing
Secure Confluence browsing means protecting internal documentation and links in wiki pages from phishing, malicious external resources, and data leakage.
Quick answer
Legba can isolate browser sessions while your team uses Confluence.
These tools are full of shared links and external content. Isolation helps reduce exposure when users open unfamiliar destinations and downloads that start from Confluence.
This page does not imply an official integration with Confluence. It is a guide to securing browser workflows around the app.
Last updated
2026-01-29
Common browser risks
- Phishing that impersonates Confluence notifications and shared pages.
- Malicious external links embedded in pages leading to credential theft or malware downloads.
- Accidental exposure from public page permissions or misconfigured spaces.
- Session hijacking risk when users browse risky sites while authenticated to internal knowledge bases.
- Copy/paste leakage of internal runbooks, incident notes, or credentials into untrusted tools or AI prompts.
Typical sensitive data in Confluence
- Runbooks, incident postmortems, and internal policies.
- Architecture diagrams and system details.
- Credentials accidentally embedded in docs (high risk).
- Customer account details and support procedures.
- Links to internal dashboards, cloud consoles, and vendor portals.
- Org structure and operational details useful to attackers.
Recommended policies by role
Engineering
- Remove secrets from docs; use secret managers and rotate any exposed credentials.
- Open unknown external links from Confluence pages in isolation.
- Use a dedicated profile for privileged consoles linked from Confluence (cloud, CI/CD).
Security
- Audit space permissions and public sharing settings; enforce least privilege.
- Use isolation for investigation of suspicious links embedded in docs.
- Deploy controls to reduce data leakage from internal docs into untrusted web apps and AI tools.
IT Admins
- Isolate unknown domains and file hosting links opened from Confluence.
- Restrict downloads from untrusted sources and require scanning/release for attachments.
- Enforce extension policies so browsers don’t become data exfiltration paths.
FAQs.
References
- 01Atlassian Trust CenterAtlassian
- 02Cloudflare: Browser IsolationCloudflare
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