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In today's digital landscape, data privacy and security are paramount. Businesses are increasingly handling sensitive customer information, making it crucial to protect this data from breaches and unauthorized access. Skyflow offers an innovative solution to this challenge with its data privacy vaults, which are designed to simplify and enhance data security. This article explores the capabilities and benefits of the Skyflow connector, and how it can be seamlessly integrated into your existing systems to ensure robust data protection.
What is Skyflow?
Skyflow is a data privacy platform that provides secure, compliant, and privacy-preserving storage for sensitive data. By leveraging advanced encryption techniques, tokenization, and access controls, Skyflow enables businesses to store and manage sensitive information without compromising on security or compliance.
Key Features of Skyflow Connector:
- Secure Data Storage: Skyflow's core feature is its ability to store sensitive data securely. The connector ensures that all data is encrypted both in transit and at rest, providing an additional layer of protection against potential breaches.
- Tokenization: Skyflow utilizes tokenization to replace sensitive data with unique identifiers. This process ensures that the actual data remains protected and inaccessible, while the tokens can be used within your applications and systems.
- Compliance: Skyflow is designed to help businesses comply with various data protection regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. The connector provides the necessary tools and features to ensure that your data-handling practices meet regulatory requirements.
- Access Controls: With Skyflow, you can define granular access controls to determine who can access specific data. This ensures that only authorized personnel have access to sensitive information, reducing the risk of internal breaches.
The Skyflow — Partner connector supports the following actions:
Insert:
- The Insert operation in Skyflow allows you to insert data directly into your Skyflow vault.
- To insert data, you need to provide the records you want to insert in the request body. Each record is represented as a JSON object with the field values.
- You can optionally specify tokenization options to have Skyflow return tokens for the sensitive data fields.
- The response from the Insert operation will include the Skyflow IDs of the inserted records, and if tokenization was enabled, the tokens for the sensitive data fields.
Tokenize:
- The Tokenize operation in Skyflow allows you to replace sensitive data with tokens.
- To tokenize data, you need to provide the records you want to tokenize in the request body. Each record is represented as a JSON object with the field values.
- Skyflow will replace the sensitive data fields with tokens and return the tokenized records in the response.
- The tokenized records can then be used in downstream applications without exposing the sensitive data.
Detokenize:
- The Detokenize operation in Skyflow allows you to replace tokens with the original sensitive data.
- To detokenize data, you need to provide the tokens you want to detokenize in the request body.
- Skyflow will replace the tokens with the original sensitive data and return the detokenized records in the response.
- The detokenized records can then be used in applications that require access to the sensitive data.
The purpose of this Recipe is to show how to connect to Skyflow using the Boomi Skyflow — Partner Connector.
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Before You Begin
Ensure you have the following:
- A Skyflow account with API access.
- API credentials (API key or tokens) for authentication.
- Boomi Enterprise Platform account with access to the Boomi platform.
Skyflow Connection
- Server: <<Server URL>>
- Authentication Type: CUSTOM
- Custom Authentication Credentials: Skyflow API Key
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Included Processes
This process showcases the use case of securely add new data to a Skyflow vault.
Start Step - No Data
- Starts the process with no incoming data.
Skyflow — Partner Connector
- Connection - Skyflow Connection
- Action - Insert
- Operation - Insert
- Connector Action - Insert
- Object - Table
- Request Profile - Skyflow Table Insert Request
- Response Profile - Skyflow Table Insert Response
- Tracking Direction - Input Documents
- Path vault_id - ID of the Vault
- Path table_name - Name of the table in which records are to be inserted
- Description - Securely add new data to a Skyflow vault
Stop Step
End and Continue
This process showcases the use case of replace sensitive data with non-sensitive tokens in a Skyflow vault.
Start Step - No Data
- Starts the process with no incoming data.
Skyflow — Partner Connector
- Connection - Skyflow Connection
- Action - Tokenize
- Operation - Tokenize
- Connector Action - Tokenize
- Object - Token
- Request Profile - Skyflow Table Tokenize Request
- Response Profile - Skyflow Table Tokenize Response
- Tracking Direction - Input Documents
- Path vault_id - ID of the Vault
- Description - Replace sensitive data with non-sensitive tokens in a Skyflow vault
Stop Step
End and Continue
This process showcases the use case of retrieve the original sensitive data from tokens in a Skyflow vault.
Start Step - No Data
- Starts the process with no incoming data.
Skyflow — Partner Connector
- Connection - Skyflow Connection
- Action - Detokenize
- Operation - Insert
- Connector Action - Detokenize
- Object - Token
- Request Profile - Skyflow Table Detokenize Request
- Response Profile - Skyflow Table Detokenize Response
- Tracking Direction - Input Documents
- Path vault_id - ID of the Vault
- Description - Retrieve the original sensitive data from tokens in a Skyflow vault
Stop Step
End and Continue
Conclusion
The Skyflow connector for Boomi provides a powerful and secure way to integrate your applications with the Skyflow data privacy platform. By supporting Insert, Tokenize, and Detokenize operations, the connector enables you to seamlessly store, tokenize, and detokenize sensitive data within your Boomi workflows.
Additional Help
Skyflow documentation