Salesforce Security Essentials
7 Things to Keep in Mind!
Salesforce is the leading CRM system in the world and Salesforce Cloud applications such as Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Community Cloud are now a business-critical service for organizations across a wide range of industries and verticals.
The dawn of remote work has increased many companies’ reliance on platforms like Salesforce, as well as accelerated the adoption of cloud platforms for those that were not already utilizing them.
The speed of adoption has often meant that the security concerns associated with utilizing these platforms have been overlooked or at least not properly considered and addressed. However, given the wealth and variety of data that is being uploaded or shared on Salesforce and with data leaks and security breaches on the rise, making sure your data is secured is a top priority among companies.
Salesforce offer their customers a highly secure cloud infrastructure with a comprehensive set of security controls. However, it is up to customers to understand how to implement these controls and to be aware of the other security issues that utilizing cloud collaboration platforms introduces.
We’ve put together a short guide to introduce and explain what we see as the seven most important areas of data security for Salesforce users.
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