Architecture and Security

• Web-based administration, scheduling, monitoring and auditing make it easy for non-technical users to easily manage data integration between systems. It's "set-and-forget" data integration as a service. Check out our YouTube Channel for the latest demonstration.
• End points are either sources or targets for data integration. An End Point can be a SaaS or on-premise application, relational databases, or files. Informatica Cloud Plug-Ins are also available to simplify your data integration and data quality processes.
• The Informatica Cloud Secure Agent moves data directly between your applications, databases and files. Data is not hosted/staged. The Secure Agent can sit behind your firewall and deliver the proven power and performance of the Informatica Platform.
• Whether it's your opportunity-to-order process, account and contacts synchronization, data replication, B2B data transformation, or data quality, Informatica Cloud delivers data integration as an on-demand service to ensure you're always working with timely, relevant and trustworthy information.

You access Informatica Cloud Services using your browser. Multitenant and on-demand, the Informatica Cloud Services metadata repository is hosted and managed by Informatica in a designated third-party, secure data center which is independently audited to be SAS-70 Type II compliant. Engineered with paramount concern for your data integrity and data security, Informatica Cloud Services are designed for minimal intrusion into your system. Your data is not stored on Informatica's or its data center's servers (e.g., unlike your data in a SaaS application like salesforce.com). In fact, your data does not leave your system or cross your firewall until your users order it to move bi-directionally between approved end points such as salesforce.com, applications, files, or databases. This architecture explains why more and more organizations are using Informatica Cloud Services to integrate non-cloud based data.

The Informatica Cloud Secure Agent

The Informatica Cloud Secure Agent is a lightweight program that enables secure communication across the firewall between your organization, end points, and the Informatica Cloud. All Informatica Cloud Services, except the Data Quality Assessment for Salesforce CRM, use the Informatica Cloud Secure Agent to get through the firewall to access application, relational database and file sources and targets in your local area network. You can install the Informatica Secure Agent on Windows or Linux. This means that data is not staged in the Informatica Cloud. Instead, a direct connection is established between the Secure Agent and your cloud-based applications. The Informatica Cloud can also be used for bi-directional data integration between on-premise source and target end points. (Read about this use case here.)

Informatica Cloud Services Security Certification

All Informatica Cloud Services connections use standard Internet security: VeriSign 128-bit SSL Certification V3. Security is backed up by the following on-going certification and auditing:

1. Semi-annual SAS-70-II certification report prepared by Ernst & Young.
2. Annual Salesforce.com partner security assessment via Symantec that ensures technical, operational and management are adhering to Salesforce security team requirement.
3. Annual application black box/white box assessment and network penetration test by independent Internet security vendor, SecureWorks.

For more details on Informatica Cloud security, please visit http://trust.informaticacloud.com/security.

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