Informatica Cloud Secure Agent Overview

The Informatica Cloud Secure Agent is a lightweight program that runs all tasks and enables secure communication across the firewall between your organization and Informatica Cloud. 

• When the Secure Agent runs a task, it connects to the Informatica Cloud hosting facility to access task information. Then, the Secure Agent connects directly and securely to sources and targets, transfers data between sources and targets, and performs any additional task requirements.
• When you install a Secure Agent, all Informatica Cloud users of the organization share the Secure Agent. 
• Run multiple Secure Agents to improve scalability or to create backup agents. To improve scalability, assign a different Secure Agent to each database or flat file target connection. You can run one Secure Agent on each machine.
• The Secure Agent must be running to run tasks.