diff --git a/Widgets/Deployment/AddVirusTotalConnection.json b/Widgets/Deployment/AddVirusTotalConnection.json
index 2a99c7f5715..d6a593bb54d 100644
--- a/Widgets/Deployment/AddVirusTotalConnection.json
+++ b/Widgets/Deployment/AddVirusTotalConnection.json
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
             }
         },
         "apiKey": {
-            "type": "String",
+            "type": "securestring",
             "metadata": {
                 "description": "The Virus Total API key."
             }
@@ -32,4 +32,4 @@
         }
     ],
     "outputs": {}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}