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Breaking Change: Version 2.130 How are external Login Credentials secured within ADvendio? with ADvendio Summer 2020

Breaking Change: Version 2.130 How are external Login Credentials secured within ADvendio? with ADvendio Summer 2020

Challenge

To connect external systems like AdServers, DSPs or SSPs to ADvendio, you often have to enter credentials like usernames, passwords or API tokens to these systems and save them within ADvendio.

You don’t want to have all your users being able to see these or access these credentials, so how can you protect these?


Solution

Coming with our new version 2.130, all credentials to external systems, which need to be stored in ADvendio, will be automatically encrypted.

Why are we doing this?

Depending on the integrated system, we need to store certain login information in ADvendio in order to grab data from or push data to these systems. In the past, this meant, that all users with direct access to the connection objects, can see this information. By adding the encryption, we can make sure, that ADvendio can still access all external systems, but nobody within your Salesforce Org will be able to copy and paste these login credentials.

What does this mean to you?

Once a password or access token is written into a Connection Record, the string is automatically encrypted, so you won’t be able to identify the password or copy and paste it.

Before the encryption:

After the encryption: