Securing Salesforce in 2023

With all the various options for Salesforce security, where should you focus?

Every modern enterprise today sits at the center of a vast and complex network of digital suppliers. Affordable high-speed internet and the vast and fast-growing global cloud market mean that organizations can easily outsoWe conducted global survey to ask thousands of IT-professionals how they deal with cloud security. To back up this data with Salesforce-specific insights we took detection data from WithSecure Cloud Protection for Salesforce product to share with you what we have seen in 2022. Based on these sources our experts give their recommendations where to focus your security efforts in 2023. urce anything they need to grow their business. Specialist software solutions can be accessed through SaaS models, or firms can acquire components and plugins to heavily customize their own infrastructure.

IT leaders top 5 security challenges in 2022.

Cloud and collaboration

Cloud platforms like Salesforce have become essential for maintaining remote and hybrid working strategies accelerated by the pandemic, as well as delivering advantages in terms of improved efficiency and agility, and reduced costs and resources. However, this more diffuse IT environment also creates more moving parts, many of which are out of direct control.

• Ensuring security of cloud-based collaboration applications, such as Salesforce and Office 365.
• Ensuring the security of an increasingly diverse pool of devices, services and software.
• Preventing advanced e-mail-based threats, such as phishing or business email compromise (BEC).
• Preventing Data Breaches
• Ensuring protection against malware and ransomware.

Our deep dive article on Salesforce security priorities outlines the trends we found in our Pulse 2023 survey.

• 46% of organizations detected one or more targeted attacks in their cloud platforms in the last 12 months
• The fact that a quarter of respondents believed they were the victim of a targeted attack in the last 12 months demonstrates that adversaries have become more sophisticated and organised. However, many organisations are making the attackers’ lives easy by failing to properly configure and monitor their cloud environments.