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.

This blog content was taken from our customer webinar "Is Salesforce CPQ Right for You?". Watch the webinar recording. 

Before we dig into the specifics, let’s quickly define CPQ:
Configure Price Quote (CPQ) software helps sales reps define and quote complex and configurable products/services with numerous and dynamic variables.

First, a little background

At RevCult, many of our clients work in highly secure and regulated industries (i.e. healthcare, financial services, etc.). With the close scrutiny involved with those industries comes an elevated focus on compliance and security. Almost all of our clients in those spaces have carefully defined and articulated data retention policies. When implementing a cloud solution, like Salesforce.com, to elevate your business and the processes that drive it, the platform often falls under the purview of Information Security teams. This is to ensure that the data stored within the platform adheres to the same standards as the rest of the IT systems.

Attending Dreamforce and interested in encryption? For those who have Salesforce Shield, or are just curious, here are 7 sessions you should definitely check out: