# Manage Published Data

When users create conferences, they have the option to publish them to their Published Area page. In this release, users are required to password protect their published conferences by default. However, in previous releases of the Audio, Web and Video Conferencing application, users could publish conferences without password protection. Without password protection in place, anyone can access the conferences, documents, and recordings that are placed in the Published Area page.

After an upgrade to this release, it is recommended that you "unpublish" all conferences that have been previously created without a password:

1. Under Monitoring, click Manage Published Data.

2. In the "Conferences Published without a Password" table, click Unpublish All. This action removes public access to the conferences, documents, and recordings.

3. To prevent unauthorized access to published conferences, ensure that the Allow users to publish conference only with password setting in the System Options page is enabled.

Parent topic: Monitoring
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