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March 2025 Atlassian Security Bulletin Summary
Atlassian has released its March 2025 Security Bulletin, detailing fixes for 13 high-severity vulnerabilities found in several of its products, including Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jira, and Crowd. These vulnerabilities, discovered through the Bug Bounty program, pen-testing, and third-party library scans, affect versions from as early as 8.5 to 10.5. The company advises users to patch their instances to the latest versions to mitigate these risks.
https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/security-bulletin-march-18-2025-1527943363.html
Atlassian Unveils New Navigation: Faster, Smarter, and Built for Your Team
Atlassian has introduced a redesigned navigation system across its products to enhance user experience with improved intuitiveness, flexibility, and scalability. The update features a simplified top navigation for quicker access to key functions, a customizable sidebar for personalized workflows, and a modern, accessible design. With insights gathered through extensive user feedback, internal testing, and a successful Early Access Program, the new navigation is now rolling out across Jira, Confluence, and Atlassian Home. Admins have tools for phased adoption, ensuring a smooth transition for their teams.
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/introducing-new-navigation
Bitbucket Strengthens Security with Access Token Expiry
Atlassian is enhancing security in Bitbucket by introducing a mandatory expiration for access tokens, aimed at reducing the risk of long-lived credentials becoming security vulnerabilities. Workspace admins will be able to set expiration periods for newly created tokens, with options ranging from 90 to 365 days. This move ensures regular token rotation and strengthens overall security. By enforcing expiration policies, organizations can better manage their credentials and reduce the potential for unauthorized access or data breaches.
Protect Your Data: The Importance of Cloud Backup in Atlassian
As businesses move to Atlassian Cloud for scalable, collaborative solutions, securing critical data becomes more important than ever. While Atlassian offers robust infrastructure, its native backup capabilities have limitations when it comes to user-initiated data loss or corruption. A dedicated cloud backup and restore solution is essential to safeguard against accidental deletions, bulk changes, internal and external threats, and compliance issues. This post explains why supplementing Atlassian Cloud with a third-party backup strategy is a vital necessity for business continuity and data protection.
https://www.revyz.io/blog/7-reasons-you-need-an-atlassian-cloud-data-back-up-and-recovery-in-2025
Transforming Security Operations with GitLab’s Open Source Hub
GitLab is launching its Open Source Security Hub, a central repository of security-focused tools developed by our internal security team. Designed to help developers and security practitioners build safer software, these open-source projects promote faster adaptation, smarter responses, and stronger defenses. As the threat landscape grows more complex, collaboration through open-source initiatives allows us to stay ahead of adversaries and strengthen our collective security.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/03/04/introducing-gitlabs-open-source-security-hub/
The Evolution of IT Operations and Opsgenie
Atlassian is advancing its IT operations capabilities with a major update to Opsgenie, now fully integrated into the Atlassian platform. With this transition, Jira Service Management becomes a complete incident management solution, while Compass offers DevOps teams enhanced alerting and on-call management. This evolution deepens the connection between IT and development teams, powered by AI-driven features for faster incident resolution and increased productivity. Opsgenie customers now have the option to migrate to Jira Service Management or Compass, with personalized support to guide a seamless transition.
AWS Expands Geographic Transparency for Regions and Availability Zone
Ensuring Data Resilience with Long-Term Backup Options for Amazon RDS and Aurora
As organizations depend more on cloud infrastructure, ensuring the long-term preservation of critical data becomes essential for compliance, resilience, and operational continuity. In this post, we explore long-term backup options for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, focusing on strategies that help organizations safeguard data while meeting regulatory requirements. We delve into AWS Backup, snapshot-based backups, and integrations with Amazon S3 for seamless long-term data archiving. Additionally, we cover database engine-specific solutions for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and others, providing practical insights on using built-in tools and third-party services to secure data for years to come.
