The Confluence Content Sanitiser (CCS) a is a tool which sanitises various types of textual data contained in a Confluence database. It is designed for situations where there is a need to replicate, and share data from a Confluence instance which contains confidential or sensitive information (e.g. usernames, passwords, page contents), for example producing a sanitised clone of your live server for your test environment.
Since there are various types and degrees of santisation CCS allows users to choose from a pre-defined, extendable list of Sanitisers to suit their needs.
Common use-cases when content sanitising might be necessary:
- When replicating a Confluence instance in a secure environment such as "Live", to an insecure one like "Test", without exposing any confidential information.
- Before attaching it to a bug report for Adaptavist, or Atlassian.
- Providing 3rd parties with copies that retain the structure (users, pages, etc) of Confluence but none of the actual data.
