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Status Under review
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 7, 2026

IBM CoC Data Extract Agent with better security

Currently with CoCDataExtractServer for SFTP we have to save our SFTP server's username and password. And with S3/GCS we have to share our accesskey/secretkey. This is a security concern as this detail will be used over public internet.


We can make this more cloud native,

Authenticate to Google Cloud without using a service account key

Use OIDC-based federation

Exchange a token with Google Security Token Service (STS)

Assume a GCP service account via a configured Workload Identity Pool


This will close the keys being shared over the public internet concerns. This is for OMoC only

What is your industry? Retail
How will this idea be used?

Cloud native access solution