Connecting to SFTP

Privacy Dynamics can connect to CSV and Parquet files hosted on your SFTP server. This guide helps you authenticate and authorize Privacy Dynamics to access your data via SFTP.

Requirements

To complete this guide, you will need the following:

• An SFTP server.
• A user for your SFTP server with Admin privileges to create a new user and define access control for that user.
• A Privacy Dynamics account.

Instructions

Before you can connect to SFTP in Privacy Dynamics, you will want to create a new service account user for Privacy Dynamics to use.

Configure Your SFTP Server

Configuration for your SFTP server will depend on the implementation. However, for Privacy Dynamics to connect to your SFTP server, you will need to:

1. Provision a new user for Privacy Dynamics to use. This User must be able to authenticate with a password or private key. We like the name svc_pvcy for this user, but it can be anything.
2. Allow the Privacy Dynamics user to read the files that contain sensitive data that you would like to anonymize.
3. Allow the Privacy Dynamics user to write new files (and optionally overwrite previously-created files) to the SFTP server.

Add the SFTP Connection in Privacy Dynamics

1. Sign in to your Privacy Dynamics account.
2. Go to the Connections page.
3. Select Add Connection.
4. Choose SFTP and select Next.
5. Enter the connection details:
   • Name - a name for you to identify the connection.
   • Host - the endpoint for the SFTP server, without the port.
   • Port - the port we use to connect to your server. The default is 22.
   • Username - the username of the service account we created earlier (svc_pvcy).
   • Password - the password or private key for the service account user.
6. Select TEST CONNECTION to verify the credentials.
7. Select ADD CONNECTION and your connection saves if there are no errors.

Other Configuration

If you have network access controls in place that limit connections to your SFTP server, you will need to add Privacy Dynamics' IP addresses to your Allowlist. You can find those IP addresses in this public JSON file.