Is anyone using Jira Cloud WITHOUT Atlassian Guard?

[Angie Affolter]

If you are using Jira Cloud without Atlassian Guard, what are the biggest challenges?

[Prachi Bolar]

Hi @Angie Affolter 

Welcome to Community :)

Please find details below

- The main features of Atlassian Guard are mentioned here : https://www.atlassian.com/software/guard

It provides tools for user management, user security, data loss prevention, and threat detection. Whether you're looking to streamline user access or safeguard sensitive information, it supports your organization's security needs.

It makes your org managed. Example say you have users wit @gmail.com in your org. Presently these users have control over their account, With Atlassian Guard, you can claim their accounts, and Atlassian Guard can help you with

• protect your organization’s users

• protect your organization’s data

• detect and respond to threats

• monitor your organization

More details here : https://support.atlassian.com/security-and-access-policies/docs/understand-atlassian-guard/

Thank you,

Prachi

[John Funk]

Hi Angie,

What tool is your company using for IAM? Active Directory? Okta? etc. 

[Alex Ortiz]

@Angie Affolter Atlassian Guard gives you more control over how your users are provisioned and authenticated.  If you don't have Guard, then you'll just have to accept the defaults which aren't as secure or convenient.  Another pain point to not having guard is that when a user leaves your company, you have to go in and manually remove that user, otherwise, you'll be paying a monthly fee for that user for as long as your forget to clean up your user list.  So, Guard automates this since it's connected to your active directory.

Really, Guard is just a more secure way of using Jira for your organization and minimizing risk.

Check out all the features you get here:

https://www.atlassian.com/software/guard/pricing

[John Funk]

I think the question is, Can you use other tools/apps to do the onboarding/offboarding like with a direct connection to Active Directory or other IAM tool.