The technology disclosed herein enables controlled access to portions of a communication session recording. In a particular embodiment, a method includes accessing a recording of user communications exchanged between participants over a communication session. The method further includes determining that a first participant subset of the participants is participating over the communication session during a first time and a second participant subset of the participants is participating over the communication session during a second time. A first user included the first participant subset is not included in the second participant subset. Upon receiving a request for the first user to access the recording, providing, to a first endpoint of the first user, a first portion of the recording corresponding to the first time and preventing access to a second portion of the recording corresponding to the second time.