Secure UDL files with restricted ACLs
From Guidance Share
- J.D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Michael Dunner, Srinath Vasireddy, Ray Escamilla and Anandha Murukan
If your application uses external universal data link (UDL) files with the ADO.NET managed data provider for OLE DB, use NTFS permissions to restrict access. Use the following restricted ACL:
Administrators: Full Control Process Account: Read
Note UDL files are not encrypted. A more secure approach is to encrypt the connection string using DPAPI and store it in a restricted registry key.
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References
- See Building Secure Data Access at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/THCMCh14.asp
