Overview
Exaforce integrates with Atlassian Jira to provide comprehensive security monitoring and streamlined incident response workflows. By ingesting audit logs, user and project configurations, and permission structures from Jira, Exaforce delivers identity-aware detections, posture assessments, and automated ticket management that connects security findings to your team's existing project tracking and remediation workflows.
Where traditional security tools treat Jira as a ticketing endpoint, Exaforce treats it as both a critical collaboration platform to monitor and a native response channel for security operations, ensuring teams can detect risks in Jira itself while leveraging it to track and resolve findings across their entire environment.
How it works
Exaforce connects to Atlassian Jira through organization-level API access and Atlassian Guard, continuously ingesting audit events, user accounts, projects, permissions, and administration activity. The platform normalizes this telemetry into a unified security graph that maps relationships between users, projects, issues, and administrative actions to establish behavioral baselines and detect deviations indicating risk.
Exaforce's AI engine correlates Jira activity with identity signals from other connected systems, such as Okta, Entra ID, GitHub, or Bitbucket, to provide complete user context and accelerate investigations. When detections surface or investigations conclude, security teams can automatically create and manage Jira issues directly from Exaforce, ensuring findings are tracked, assigned, and resolved through established workflows.
Core capabilities
Detect risky user and admin activity
Exaforce continuously monitors Jira for suspicious user and administrative behavior that could indicate account compromise, insider threats, or misuse. The platform detects patterns such as inactive user accounts with lingering access to projects or issues, admin users with permissions exceeding their role requirements, unusual bulk operations, and administrative actions from unexpected locations or devices. Each detection is enriched with user identity attributes, recent permission changes, and correlated activity from other systems to provide immediate context for triage.
Governance and posture assessments
Exaforce evaluates Jira's security posture by analyzing user permissions, project configurations, and administrative controls. It identifies risks such as admin users with excessive or unnecessary permissions, inactive accounts that retain access to sensitive projects, public or externally shared projects without appropriate controls, and projects lacking clear ownership or governance structures. These findings help security teams proactively address configuration drift and access sprawl before they lead to incidents.
Identity correlation across tools
Exaforce maps Jira users to corporate directory identities and accounts in connected systems such as GitHub, Bitbucket, Okta, and cloud platforms. This unified identity graph enables cross-platform investigations that trace a single user's actions across development, collaboration, and infrastructure tools. When a Jira account exhibits suspicious behavior, analysts can immediately pivot to see the user's activity in other systems, building a complete timeline that accelerates root cause analysis and response.
Automated ticket creation and management
Security teams can automatically create Jira issues directly from Exaforce findings or through Automation Agents triggered by detections with specific attributes or on a scheduled or manual basis. Issues are populated with rich context, including detection summaries, supporting evidence, affected users or resources, and recommended remediation steps. Teams can configure workflows to route tickets to specific projects, add full details, and apply labels or priority levels based on risk scoring, ensuring security findings integrate seamlessly with existing incident management and remediation processes.
Deep investigation with audit trail visibility
When a detection requires investigation, Exaforce provides full access to Jira audit logs and configuration history. Analysts can explore user activity timelines, review administrative changes, inspect project permission modifications, and correlate Jira events with activity in other connected tools. Natural language queries and visual pivoting make it easy to answer questions without requiring complex JQL syntax or manual log parsing.
AI-driven triage to reduce noise
Exaforce's AI triage engine automatically evaluates Jira detections by comparing them against historical patterns, user roles, and business context. Routine administrative actions, expected bulk operations, and benign access patterns are filtered out, while genuine anomalies are prioritized and enriched with supporting evidence. This intelligent triage dramatically reduces false positives and ensures analysts focus on the findings that matter most.
Benefits
Exaforce improves Jira security visibility by continuously monitoring user activity, permissions, and administrative actions across all Jira sites and projects. It reduces false positives and alert fatigue through AI-driven triage that filters benign activity and prioritizes high-risk findings based on identity context and behavioral baselines. The integration accelerates investigations by providing a unified timeline that connects Jira events to activity in other systems, eliminating the need for manual correlation and tool-switching. Finally, it streamlines incident response and remediation tracking by enabling automated ticket creation in Jira directly from Exaforce, ensuring security findings are captured, assigned, and resolved through the team's existing workflows.