The Security Partnership: How Event Monitoring Bring Security and Business Leaders Together

Dec 14, 2015 By Adam Torman

The Security Partnership: How Event Monitoring Brings Security and Business Leaders Together

In the last Security Partnership post, Jim Rivera talked about why both IT and the business ends of a company need to form a partnership to ensure both parties come together to set security standards, select tools to achieve their goals, and identify the correct path forward. The ability to monitor... Read More

App Cloud, Cloud, Featured, Innovation, IT, Leadership

Jul 03, 2012 By Adam Torman

Best Practices: Assigning Apps Using Permission Sets

An app is loosely defined as an ordered collection of tabs which users can select from the Force.com app menu in the top right of the screen. With the Summer '12 release, we've added tab and app settings to permission sets.This means that permission sets can now... Read More

Customization, Featured

Jun 06, 2012 By Adam Torman

Log in as Any User Without First Having Access Granted - New in Summer '12

A year ago, we released an enhancement to the Grant Login-as screens that changed how long a user could grant access to an administrator or salesforce.com customer support representative. Instead of being able to set an expiration date sometime in the far away future, we began to limit it to no... Read More

Customization

Feb 06, 2012 By Adam Torman

Permission Sets Best Practice: Phasing in Permission Sets

Permission sets represent a fundamental shift in enabling a user's access. As a result, you should have a release strategy before rolling out new permission sets to users in your org.As with other important changes made to an org, you should first create permission sets within a Sandbox... Read More

Customization, Platform

Feb 02, 2012 By Adam Torman

Permission Set Best Practice: Reduce Risk through Re-Certification

'Re-certification' is the term I've been hearing information security teams throw around when discussing high risk permissions. Re-certification is the process of verifying the permissions a user needs by taking risky permissions away from all users in the organization... Read More

Customization, Platform

Jan 31, 2012 By Adam Torman

Permission Sets Best Practice: What's in a Name

Thinking back to the 1,023 possible combinations of job functions discussed previously, it’s easy to understand why it might be difficult to come up with a meaningful name for each profile that could be generated. However, it’s far easier to imagine coming up with 10 meaningful names for... Read More

Customization, Platform

Jan 30, 2012 By Adam Torman

Permission Set Best Practice: You Should Try THIS Out at Home

Unlike profiles which have pre-created (or standard) examples like ‘Standard User’ or ‘System Administrator’, permission sets have no pre-created examples in an org. Below is a list of permission set examples you may want to create and why they are a good idea. As a general rule, as you remove... Read More

Customization, Platform

Dec 27, 2011 By Adam Torman

Permission Sets Best Practice: Lose Some Profile Weight

Profiles remain an important and necessary tool for the administrator. Beyond the requirement that every user is assigned to a single profile, certain user settings are available on profiles that are not available on permission sets.Previous blogs discussed the ability of... Read More

Customization, Platform

Dec 19, 2011 By Adam Torman

Permission Sets Best Practice: Mass Assign Permission Sets and other cool things using the API

The sObject API is an important part of permission sets, allowing you to perform tasks that you cannot perform through the permission set UIs. Some administrators may already be comfortable with the salesforce.com sObject API, but for those who are not, it is possible to make use of the... Read More

Customization, Platform