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Sep 21, 20201 min

3 Simple steps to protect your salesforce customer data

Updated: Nov 10, 2020

Mike Tyson said "Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze."

Salesforceadmin - Act before it’s too late

But,

Should salesforce ohana even care?

Yes,

Because our Org(s) is full of

personal data and sensitive information

Step 1 - Get basics right

Google up Salesforce data security best practices

Whitelist IP, optimize profiles & roles, do MFA & SSO

Share with your team

And make it happen

You owe it to customers

Employer

And your career

Step 2 - Delete or anonymize unnecessary data

Thru data retention - data minimization

Manually,

With Cloud Compliance GDPR/CCPA Data Privacy Suite

Or by writing custom code

But get rid of it all

Educate data hoarders who want

23 years of data

Step 3 - Mask sandbox data

Org silent killer here

Most sandbox have production data

With liberal access to testers, developers, casual users

data mask with us

Or with Salesforce

Both are similar in capabilities

Read article in comments

But do it

data breach

Is an omnipresent threat

Hope isn't a strategy

But I hope you will do these

If your boss needs to hear from someone else

I am happy to talk

Did I miss anything else to safeguard Org?

Data Masking and Retention app - http://bit.ly/cloudcomplianceapp

Article on data masking https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/coconut-king-salesforce-sandbox-saurabh-gupta/

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