Healthcare grade retention for Atlassian Cloud, built for HIPPA, HITECH, and more

Automate policy-driven archival and defensible deletion with exportable audit evidence, measurable storage savings, and cleaner AI inputs. No off‑platform copies, no surprises.

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Healthcare-grade data retention for Atlassian Cloud apps

Clinical notes, QA reports, patient communications, operational logs, and regulatory evidence can quietly accumulate across Confluence and Jira instances. Every extra artifact increases breach surface area, inflates backup costs, and risks exposing protected health information (PHI) to AI systems. Content Retention Manager keeps healthcare organizations compliant and lean, executing policy-driven archival and defensible deletion entirely inside Atlassian Cloud, backed by immutable, exportable audit logs.
The key outcomes of good data retention strategy
  • Regulatory assurance: Meet HIPAA, HITECH, and ISO 27001 requirements with audit-ready logs and defensible deletion.
  • Risk reduction: Remove aged or ownerless records to reduce PHI exposure and data breach risks.
  • Cost efficiencies: Cut backup and indexed‑object growth with double‑digit volume reductions.
  • Operational performance: Improve Confluence and Jira responsiveness, reduce latency in compliance-heavy workspaces.
  • AI hygiene: Keep training and RAG context free from outdated or non-compliant records to protect PHI and maintain trust.

How Content Retention Manager solves it

Opus Guard’s Content Retention Manager makes healthcare-grade data retention in Atlassian simple and secure.

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FAQ's

How does data retention help with HIPAA and HITECH compliance?
By automating retention and defensible deletion inside Atlassian Cloud, you ensure PHI and sensitive records are kept only for the required duration. Opus Guard logs every action, giving you audit-ready proof of policy enforcement and reducing breach and litigation exposure.
Can we prove that PHI was deleted per policy?
Yes. Every archival and deletion event is logged and exportable as evidence, showing who authorized it, which policy applied, and when it occurred, supporting defensible deletion under HIPAA §164.316 and ISO 27001 audit requirements.
Does data retention affect our AI and analytics initiatives?
Outdated records can corrupt AI outputs or violate PHI boundaries, producing inaccurate or non-compliant generative outputs. By keeping your Atlassian apps' content current and policy-scoped, Content Retention Manager helps teams feed cleaner, time-bounded information into internal AI tools. Overall this both improves relevance while also cutting token and indexed object overages charges.
What’s the business impact on performance, storage and backup costs?
Confluence and Jira Cloud store every item, every attachment and page version, all of which should be backed up in at least three versions in at least two different locations. Automating retention reduces source content being backed up and in turn reduces backup object-storage growth, resulting in measurable savings on the backup tiers. Most customers see double-digit percentage reductions in backup volume once redundant, expired, or ownerless content is removed. Additionally, most customers see measurable performance improvements on the primary SaaS apps, in Confluence and Jira directly.
How does Opus Guard fit in our existing information-governance program?
Think of Opus Guard and Content Retention Manager as an operational layer inside your Atlassian Cloud that executes the retention policies you already define in your GRC framework. It complements enterprise DLP, backup, and eDiscovery tools by ensuring Atlassian content ages out automatically and can’t silently accumulate outside formal retention cycles: a key expectation in ISO 27001/42001, SOC 2, and GDPR Article 5.

Easy content governance

Content Retention Manager is your vital tool to oversee and execute the document lifecycle, ensuring that information is stored, maintained, and disposed of in a compliant focused manner and according to your defined retention policies.

"Love it. I've always wondered why this wasn't a feature in Confluence and now I found a way to get it!"

Jeff Gibson
Chief Information Officer, Kintsugi

Opus Guard is your trusted retention partner

Opus Guard is SOC 2 Type II certified. And built entirely on Atlassian's own SOC 2 certified infrastructure. We regularly conduct tests and audits, subject to our controls.

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Runs on Atlassian is a special category of apps in the Atlassian Marketplace that are built on Atlassian Forge. These apps • Are hosted on Atlassian’s platform • Store data within Atlassian • Are data residency compliant

Atlassian Cloud Fortified apps offer additional security, reliability, and support through: • Cloud security participation • Timely reliability checks • 24hr support response time, and more: verified by Atlassian

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Data Residency & Privacy
Supports Atlassian data residency. Aligns to GDPR/CCPA principles of data minimization and storage limitation—no off-platform copies.
‍Defensible Deletion & Evidence
Policy-driven archival and deletion with exportable audit logs for regulatory reviews.
‍Least-Privilege by Design
Scopes limited to the minimum required to classify, audit, archive, and delete in Confluence & Jira.
‍ISO Alignment
Governance aligned with ISO 27001 (information security) and ISO 42001 (AI governance) practices.

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