What is data security software?

Data security software is a set of tools that enable organizations to protect their most important asset: their information. Data security tools protect critical data through processes such as masking, encryption, sensitive data detection, and backups to help enterprises meet regulatory compliance.

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Monitor, encrypt, and classify your Salesforce data.

Report on unauthorized or unlawful activity.

Prevent undesired events with Event Monitoring. Get detailed security and usage data on all your Salesforce apps to understand who, when, and where data is accessed. Create customized, flexible security policies to block malicious activity, and receive alerts to prevent and mitigate threats.

Encrypt sensitive data.

Protect your information, even when it's behind the scenes. Encrypt your most sensitive data, including fields, files, attachments, search indexes, and more using Platform Encryption. Manage your own key lifecycle for greater control and flexibility, and follow security best practices with regular key rotations.

Track changes to critical data.

Stay compliant with regulations, and protect your data while ensuring accuracy with Field Audit Trail. Track granular changes to important fields in your Salesforce records, and automatically create an audit log any time a record is modified, showing what changes were made and when.

Find and classify sensitive data quickly.

Find address, and protect sensitive data directly within a simple UI with Data Detect. Locate and classify sensitive data, like credit card or social security numbers, according to your preferences. Explore matched patterns, and view flagged data across all records. Protect customer information to comply with data protection laws and security best practices.

Centrally view, monitor, and manage your security health.

View permissions and controls in a single dashboard.

Security Center organizes all of your permissions and controls into one dashboard. Quickly identifiy misconfigurations and incorrect user permissions, and eliminate any gaps in your org's security posture. Drill down further for granular details to uncover deeper insights or to prove compliance with regulatory standards.

Monitor changes and set alerts.

Create custom alerts on key permissions and metrics to quickly get notified when changes occur. Swiftly identify new threats as they emerge to reduce security risks and time spent monitoring changes.

Manage security policies efficiently.

Configure key security settings once, then deploy them out to your connected Salesforce orgs. Set security policies around session time outs, trusted IP ranges, password configurations, and your health check baseline. Quickly improve your security performance, and ensure your configurations never deviate from your business intent.

Protect your organization against data loss and corruption.

Deploy backups effortlessly.

Salesforce Backup is our native solution for safeguarding your critical Salesforce data. Set up and configure your backup policies in minutes to ensure that your valuable information is protected with ease. Find peace of mind knowing that your data is safeguarded within the Salesforce Trust Boundary.

Restore data securely and swiftly.

Quickly recover your crucial data to ensure operational continuity without unnecessary delays. Explore and preview backups at your convenience, and effortlessly export your valuable information. Minimize data disruption by restoring data with a few clicks – all in an intuitive, admin-friendly interface.

Strengthen data resilience against any threat.

Empower your organization to prevent the impact of permanent data loss from external cybersecurity attacks and internal human errors. Ensure uninterrupted access to critical data, meet compliance and legal requirements, and seamlessly navigate system upgrades and migrations with peace of mind.

Mask sensitive data in sandboxes.

De-identify data and manage compliance.

Scale your business with trust with Data Mask. Secure sensitive customer data to stay compliant with regulations like GDPR, FINRA, and PCI DSS. Protect your PI and PII data to securely build and customize with a 100% native approach.

Develop and customize with agility.

Obfuscate some or all sensitive data with different levels of masking, depending on the sensitivity of your data. Leverage built-in field definitions to anonymize, pseudonymize, pattern-match, or delete data. With record filtering, you can quickly target specific data records for masking to meet business requirements and security goals.

Work with realistic data.

Ensure development teams only see relevant data when they’re building, not sensitive data that could be used dangerously if it falls in the wrong hands. Introduce masking in Sandboxes to empower teams to build and test faster with realistic data when delivering apps. Increase developer productivity while maintaining a secure testing environment.

Enforce mobile security with mobile app management.

Enforce security policies at scale.

Mobile devices are integral to modern work environments, and their usage presents unique security challenges. Enforce organization wide mobile security policies with clear severity levels. Ensure a consistent and robust approach to safeguarding sensitive corporate data and assets. By defining severity levels, organizations can prioritize threats and vulnerabilities, focusing resources and attention on the most critical issues.

Enforce security policies at scale.

Restrict unauthorized use and prevent data loss.

Enable IT teams to manage and secure the mobile applications on their employees' devices. Block file sharing and copy/paste capabilities, and specify browser and dialer apps. Defend against malware, phishing attacks, and other cyber threats that can compromise the security of mobile endpoints.

Capture mobile app events for compliance auditing.

Meet industry and region-specific regulations and compliance requirements that mandate the protection of sensitive data and data access management audits. Mobile app event capture helps ensure that companies can provide evidence of compliance, which is crucial in sectors like healthcare, finance, and government. Record essential customer actions such as calls, texts, emails, and screenshots to capture events for compliance audit purposes.