Taken from RevCult's Salesforce Security Series Webinar "How Hackers Think" featuring Mike Smith, Security Architect at Salesforce 

“Simply put, Roman Seleznev has harmed more victims and caused more financial loss than perhaps any other defendant that has appeared before the court...This prosecution is unprecedented.”

Are you using Salesforce in the most secure way? Security is not a “set it and forget it” thing. We conduct Salesforce Security Risk Assessments for a number of clients and tend to see recurring themes that expose companies’ data. Here are the 7 most common mistakes we see with Salesforce Security:

RevCult continues to help companies in highly regulated industries (Financial Services, HLS, Consumer Goods, etc.) grow on the Salesforce platform while ensuring their data is properly protected. We are proud to offer more value to clients with our new Premium version of Field Audit Trial Cockpit, the User Interface for Salesforce Field Audit Trial.

Before we dive into the details of the Premium version, let's take a step back and provide some context on the importance of Field Audit Trail.

You might have seen an email from Salesforce with the subject "ACTION MAY BE REQUIRED: Field History data retention now enforced" and body text: 

In the Summer '18 release, Salesforce provided the option to encrypt certain fields with deterministic encryption scheme. Before we dive into the difference between probabilistic and deterministic encryption, let's make sure we're all on the same page.

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At its core, the J Curve communicates the idea that before things can get better, they have to get a little bit worse. Or, as Harvey Dent (Batman, The Dark Knight) put it, “The night is darkest just before the dawn.” This concept proves to be ubiquitous across many areas of study—with the J-Curve being applied to political revolutions, private equity funds, and medical morbidity rates. 

Data security is a hot topic in today’s digital world with more sophisticated hackers, breaches, policies, requirements and private information moving to the cloud. Salesforce is one of the major cloud platforms companies are storing private information on, and as Salesforce Experts, we get asked a lot about the security of the platform.

Well Salesforce is just that – a platform, not a product. Salesforce does a great job of making their platform highly secure with fundamental security tools, BUT it’s a platform and you can still make mistakes on the platform that can increase your risk exposure.