Webservice and database security

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Is necessary to use from webservice for security of DB?
I put my connection string (which has username and password of db) in web.config.
Is it Security weakness?
Must I put connection string in Webservice?
If I put my connection string to webservice, the database security is be provided?

Thanks very much

What I have tried:

i don't do any thing for this problem.

help.

Posted 7-Nov-18 20:58pm

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Updated 8-Nov-18 0:06am

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F-ES Sitecore · Answer 1 · 2018-11-08T00:06:00

It's generally considered ok to put the username and password in the web.config as IIS knows not to serve that file if it is requested. If a hacker manages to hack your server and get access to the file system they'll get the details though. It is possible to encrypt parts of the web.config so if you wanted to be really secure you could do that (google how if you don't know) so even if someone gets access to the file they can't get the details.