My company is a little scared about storing data in the cloud and though we are going ahead with Salesforce, they are hesitant about us using the data loader. If you can answer the following and may be guide me to a page where i can read about the data loader wrt security, it will be of great help.
1. Is data loader a part of Salesforce? I mean if data loader stores our username and/or password, can we say its the same thing as salesforce storing our details? Or is it like an app from AppExchange storing our details?
2. Does it store the data that we are importing / exporting from Salesforce?
3. When Data Loader tries to connect with our instance, is the data encrypted while importing / exporting?
4. Any other kind of IT risks involved?
Can you please reply to the earliset? I will also like to know if i can read more about this in a official page.
Thanks!
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1. The Data Loader is an app, that uses the Salesforce API, to push and pull data to/from Salesforce. The app can remember your user name but does not store password/security token.
2. The Data Loader does not house any data. It's not a database with storage capabilities.
3. I don't believe there is any encryption on the data while it's transferred. Might be a good question to ask Salesforce support.
4. None that we have experienced. I use the Apex Data Loader on a regular basis and have not experienced any issues. We are not storing anything that is very valuable though. All of our data is plain text honestly.
Here are some inks about the Apex Data Loader page:
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Data_Loader
http://salesforcefoundation.screenstepslive.com/s/npsp/m/2885/l/26241-downloading-and-configuring-the-apex-data-loader
