At Salesforce, trust is our number one value. When you build apps on the Salesforce Platform, rest assured that they reside in a safe environment. However, as a Salesforce Developer, there are certain concepts and best practices that you need to know to prevent leaking data or creating dangerous app security vulnerabilities. Understand this blog post as a hub for resources around this important topic.
Continue reading “Security for Salesforce Developers”Controlling record level security with Sharing
As next week I will give a talk about security at London’s Calling, I would like to create a blog post series regarding to Salesforce security for developers. I already talked about CRUD and FLS in a previous post so I thought it was a good idea to continue with sharing.
Sharing is the common way of referring to record level security in the platform, this is, the settings that control if a user X will have read (&report) / write / transfer / delete / share permissions for a specific record Y.
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Become a Force.com Security Superman
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting at French Touch Dreamin event. I gave a talk about Security, in which I explained some of the main things a developer has to take into account in order that our Salesforce applications are secure. I explained how to take care of CRUD, FLS and sharing, and also of known important vulnerabilities as XSS (cross site scripting), CSRF (cross site request forgery), open redirect or SOQL injection.
My Salesforce adventure 