@badita - One of the user has raised a ticket regarding Security. Here is the question raised on forum as well from another user. Could you please help here ? My Development team and I are currently reviewing security considerations around our workflows, and one of the potential issues we have ra…

You keep the password in a Credential and convert the SecureString to string. You’ll still using the SecureString type. [image] Convert SecureString to String - Get Secured Credential Help As Genfour suggested we need to create an activity that returns a string from a Se…

This is an excellent question and here is how UiPath mitigates it in enterprise deployments. 1. Release Cycle Every workflow that goes into production needs a reviewer approval (the reviewer is the one who pushes the workflow via Orchestrator). Now, he should check how all the SecureStrings are us…

Thanks for the response Mihai. However, if the excel has password i cannot use Secure String as it takes only String. How can we go about this ?

@badita Yes you are right about the security measures. Since the target application like Excel or SMTP expects the password to be entered in actual password string, so the risk of exposing password is always there and can be stopped by code review and different Dev/Prod server. But here in UiPath a…

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badita (Mihai Badita) June 9, 2017, 9:23am 4

You keep the password in a Credential and convert the SecureString to string.
You’ll still using the SecureString type.

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