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5. Salesforce Security Architecture

Dipanker Jyoti1   and James A. Hutcherson2
(1)
Rockville, MD, USA
(2)
Orlando, FL, USA
 

Salesforce security encompasses several significant areas to provide security, access, and visibility of data across a given instance. Security is a foundational element of the overall Force.com design. You must understand the interworkings of system security and data sharing within the Salesforce platform.

In this chapter, we review three main areas of security architecture, including platform security, record-level access mechanics, and internal and external user visibility and sharing ...

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