Enforce site-level control for anonymous access

Confluence admins can now permanently enforce site-level control over anonymous access. This ensures that when anonymous access is turned off for your site, space admins can't override it at the space level. This update helps you maintain stronger governance and consistent security across all spaces.

This update is available for all paid Confluence Cloud customers on role-based access model.

If you aren't using roles yet, visit the Atlassian Cloud Roadmap for details on when roles-based access will reach all sites.

To get started with this change:

Go to Confluence administration, then Anonymous access.

Site admins will see different experiences depending on when their Confluence site was created.

• Existing customers (sites created before this feature is released): Admins can permanently enforce site‑level control of anonymous access. Enforcing this turns off existing space‑level anonymous access.

• New customers (sites created after this feature is released): Anonymous access is enforced at the site level by default.

Key changes

• Enforce site-level control: Confluence admins can permanently enforce global control over anonymous access to ensure that spaces follow the site-level setting.

• Spaces inherit the site setting: Space admins can only enable anonymous access at the space level if it’s already enabled at the site level.

• Roles-based access: Available only for customers using role-based access model (RBAC).

Benefits

• Simplified administration: Manage site-wide anonymous access from one central location.

• Stronger governance: Confluence admins now have reliable control over how content is exposed across their site.

• Consistent behavior: Anonymous access works consistently site‑wide, avoiding conflicts between space and global settings.

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