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

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.
Kilian Englert
1 min read
Published June 10, 2022

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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