How are data sources connection details stored?

Elements understand how important ensuring the security of your sensitive information is to your organisation. 

In Elements Connect for Jira Cloud, your databases connection information is encrypted following industry standards. 
As an effort to protect our customers data from any malicious use, we encrypt: 

• Host name

• Login

• Port

• Schema

• Password

Authentication data for REST APIs are also encrypted:

• for Basic Auth, we encrypt:

  • user ID

  • password

• for API Key, we encrypt:

  • API key

  • send mode (QUERY_PARAM or HEADER)

  • parameter name

  • header name

• for OAuth2, we encrypt:

  • grant type

  • token URL

  • client ID

  • client secret

  • send mode

  • header name

  • scope

  • audience

  • Auth URL

  • refresh token

  • token expiration date

  • OAuth2 token

Security has always been core to our apps offering, and delivering on your expectations in this area remains a top priority for our company.