Make Whitelisting Easy

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 May 2008 07:51 Written by Steve Wednesday, 7 May 2008 07:51

It’s very beneficial to whitelist the networks from which Users will regularly access their Salesforce.com database. If you don’t explicitly whitelist their networks, people will have to deal with security tokens when they use tools like DemandTools.

One problem–Users have no idea what an IP address is, much less how to find theirs. So I ask them to go to this URL: http://whatismyip.com It’s pretty self explanatory. It just tells you the public IP you’re coming from.

When the User hits this site, they can then add their IP to the whitelist in Security Controls, and they won’t need their security token to use great software like DemandTools.

2 Comments

1. ThomasT   |  Friday, 09 May 2008 at 7:20 pm

   Alternatives for the aurally inclined:
   MoanMyIP.com
   HearMyIP.com

   
2. Steve   |  Saturday, 10 May 2008 at 7:08 am

   thanks for that–it shows the true power of the Internet–turn everything into porn.