Question

How can the connection to salesforce be restricted only to the employee portal server? Universal containers (UC) uses a legacy Employee portal for their employees to collaborate and post their ideas. UC decides to use Salesforce ideas for voting and better tracking purposes. To avoid provisioning users on Salesforce, UC decides to push ideas posted on the Employee portal to salesforce through API. UC decides to use an API user using OAuth Username - password flow for the connection.

Answer 1

Answer

To restrict the connection only to the employee portal server, the IP address of the application should be added into the list of Trusted IP's.

Explanation:

Trusted IP's are the IP's that are used to identify the users that can be verified easily. Those users whose IP's are not listed in the trusted IP list needs to verify their identity by sending them login code on each transaction.

In above mentioned case, We need to enlist the IP address of employee portal list in trusted IP list to ensure the restriction of login to employee only.