Your data is your organization’s lifeblood. Protecting it with Salesforce security tools gives you the best chance of avoiding costly outages, data loss, and compliance failures.
Why It Matters: Your customers trust you with their data. Failing to protect it can have real-life consequences for them, leading to a loss of consumer trust in your organization. Internally, data mishaps create redundant work, slow business processes, and create regulatory compliance issues.
- On average, it takes 258 days to identify and contain a data breach.
- AI phishing attacks are growing in popularity and scope as technology continues to improve.
- A comprehensive approach to data security is required to address potential weak points and protect sensitive system data.
Here are six Salesforce security tools you need in your DevOps toolbox to protect your system data:
1. Event Monitoring and Logging
You can’t solve a problem if you don’t know it exists. Maintaining consistent oversight into how your data is being handled and who is accessing sensitive parts of your system helps you respond to breaches much more quickly.
Automated event monitoring tools track user activities, API calls, and security events to detect anomalies and potential threats.
Early alerts reduce the potential for widespread damage should a breach occur.
2. Static Code Analysis
The quality of your code has a direct impact on the security of your system. Updates and applications riddled with errors can cause misfires that degrade data and create back doors for cybercriminals.
Static code analysis immediately tests code as it’s written to prevent mistakes from progressing through the DevOps pipeline and making it into live environments.
Early detection of these issues reduces the cost of rectifying them while also supporting a healthy and secure Salesforce platform.
3. Access Management
Policing who can access your system is a critical capability that every organization needs to address.
Access management includes the implementation of Salesforce security tools like multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), and IP restrictions.
These protections prevent access by unauthorized individuals. Login portals are a main point of vulnerability frequently targeted by cybercriminals.
4. Backup and Recovery
Data protection requires preparing for worst-case scenarios. Data loss can come from such a wide variety of sources that it’s impossible to completely guarantee security.
Backup and recovery are nonnegotiable Salesforce security tools for providing a safety net when a data disaster occurs.
These tools serve multiple important functions, like data archiving, which helps streamline business processes, reduce storage costs, and meet regulatory requirements.
5. Threat Detection
A main goal of Salesforce security tools is to flag threats as early as possible so they can be addressed and remediated before they cause massive damages.
Salesforce threat detection tools monitor user activity, API calls, and system events to spot anomalies such as unauthorized access attempts, excessive data exports, or suspicious behavior patterns.
Early detection is critical to minimizing negative impacts.
6. Encryption
Data security regulations dictate the need to install proper protocols for protecting sensitive customer data. These requirements differ among the various regulations depending on the location and types of data held by the organization, but encryption is a frequently required security method.
Data encryption protects sensitive data at rest and in transit to prevent unauthorized access by scrambling the data into an encoded format that can only be decrypted with the appropriate key.
This ensures the protection of sensitive data—even if the environment itself is breached. Salesforce security tools work best in concert with each other, and this is a critical layer of protection.
Next Step…
The world of data security moves fast. Staying on top of recent innovations helps you stay one step ahead of potential threats. There’s no greater innovation right now than the introduction of AI to the DevOps lifecycle.
Read our ebook, The State of AI Security in Salesforce DevOps, to learn how you can safely use these powerful tools for application development.