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Does date of birth need to be encrypted?
Shield is important to financial services organisations for encrypting personally identifiable information (PII). Date of birth is identified as PII, so should be encrypted.
What PII should be encrypted?
In broad terms, there are two types of data you should encrypt: personally identifiable information and confidential business intellectual property. PII includes any kind of information another person can use to uniquely identify you. This includes your driver’s license or social security number.
What can a hacker do with your date of birth?
Unfortunately, an ID fraudster can use your birthday as a piece of the puzzle to capture your identity and commit identity theft. Fraudsters need just three key bits of information to steal your identity and access your accounts, take out loans, credit cards, mobile phones in your name.
Does PII need to be encrypted?
Sensitive PII—such as passport, driver’s license or Social Security numbers—however, requires encryption in transit as well as at rest to prevent harm being caused to the individual if their PII ends up in the wrong hands.
When do you encrypt an account name or contact name?
When you encrypt any of the following Account or Contact fields, the equivalent fields in Person Accounts are also encrypted. When the Account Name or Contact Name field is encrypted, searching for duplicate accounts or contacts to merge doesn’t return any results.
Who is always encrypted with.net framework data provider?
Once you enable Always Encrypted for application queries, you can use standard ADO.NET APIs (see Retrieving and Modifying Data in ADO.NET) or the .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server APIs, defined in the System.Data.SqlClient Namespace, to retrieve or modify data in encrypted database columns.
What happens when always encrypted is not enabled?
As Always Encrypted is not enabled in the connection string, the query will return encrypted values of SSN and BirthDate as byte arrays (the program converts the values to strings). A query retrieving data from encrypted columns with Always Encrypted disabled can have parameters, as long as none of the parameters target an encrypted column.
What can you encrypt on the shield platform?
It is available in sandboxes after it has been provisioned for your production org. IN THIS SECTION: What You Can Encrypt Shield Platform Encryption lets you encrypt a wide variety of standard fields and custom fields. You can also encrypt files and attachments stored in Salesforce, Salesforce search indexes, and more.