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Features – Secure
Confluence brings enterprise security to the wiki arena.
With your permission...
Security is a major concern for any organisation. Sensitive information must be protected from prying eyes. Authoritative documents need to be safe from unauthorised editing.
Confluence's comprehensive permissioning system gives you fine-grained control over precisely what any user can do.
Each space has its own set of permissions:
Every page can have its own security too, so you can protect information within your wiki at any level:
- "Users particularly like the very powerful and accessible permission controls on the content because they are concerned that while they're putting in preliminary data, people would be interpreting it prematurely ... so they want to have control as to when they present and share the data." Mingyi Liu at GPC Biotech
Know your author
Every Confluence page is automatically stamped with the name of the original author and the latest editor, so you know you can trust what you are reading:
Confluence also retains a complete history of every page edit — who, what and when:
Open or closed
If you choose to run a public site, users can sign up for an account directly through the web interface. You can also allow visitors to access part or all of the site without having them sign in.
Usage example: The 'Community' website is viewable by the general public, but can only be edited by people who sign up and log in.
Depending on your organisation's requirements, you can close the site to anonymous visitors, and only allow the site's administrators to add new users. It's all about giving you the power to make the site as open (or closed) as you need.
Keep it in-house
You have the flexibility to install Confluence on your own server, keeping your data behind your organisation's firewall.