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Changing Security Keys for Field Level Encryption

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Last updated: Feb 23, 2016

Follow these steps if you want to change the Security Key that Aptify uses to encrypt a specific entity field:

  1. Create a new Security Key from the Security Key service.
  2. Open the entity that contains the encrypted field whose key you want to change from the Entities service.
  3. Under the Fields tab, double-click the name of the encrypted field to open the Fields record.
  4. Click the Options tab.
  5. Enter the new key in the Security Key field.
  6. Click OK to save changes and close the Fields record.
  7. Save and Close the entity record.

 

Changing the Security Key is actually a two-step process. First, Aptify decrypts the data using the old key, and then it re-encrypts the data with the new key. This process affects all records in the entity and may take some time depending on the number of records. To minimize potential conflict with users who are entering data into the system, Aptify recommends that you only perform encryption and decryption operations after hours when no one is using the system.

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