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So I Creep: Aggregating Salesforce Permissions Can Add up to Excessive Risk

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Published June 10, 2022

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    Salesforce entitlements go beyond object and record access — they can give users the ability to perform actions within Salesforce as well.

    Kilian Englert and Ryan O'Boyle from the Varonis Cloud Architecture team discuss how the combination of Salesforce profiles, permission sets, and permission set groups can grant users far greater rights than were intended.

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    Kilian Englert
    Kilian Englert

    Kilian has a background in enterprise security engineering, as well as security solution selling. Kilian is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and creates internal and public content on topics related to cybersecurity and technology best practices.

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