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Online retailers are dealing with more cybersecurity threats than ever before, and the holiday season is when they have to fend them off most aggressively. In this interview with Help Net Security, Dr. Taher Elgamal, cryptographer, infosec leader and currently the CTO at Salesforce, talks about the obstacles retailers' need to overcome to increase their cybersecurity posture and his expectations for the threat landscape in 2022.
Organizations have been warned that a misconfiguration in Salesforce Communities can lead to the exposure of sensitive information. While the misconfiguration has been known since at least last year and Salesforce has taken steps to prevent incidents, data security company Varonis says it's still seeing many affected organizations.
Few people talk about managing the security aspects of Salesforce Release Updates. By understanding what Release Updates are, why they pose a security risk, and how security teams can mitigate risk, Salesforce customers can better protect sensitive information.
IBM announced plans to acquire Waeg to extend IBM's portfolio of Salesforce services and advance IBM's hybrid cloud and AI strategy. "Our partner ecosystem is an important growth channel for Salesforce, and IBM continues to expand their capabilities across the world, most recently with the addition of Waeg," said Tyler Prince, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Alliances and Channels, Salesforce.
Throughout 2020, RevCult went through this same security risk assessment process with a host of clients. Despite the fact that these clients represented a diverse array of industries, there was significant overlap in the security and governance challenges they experienced related to their use of Salesforce.
The reason? While many mission-critical cloud applications like Salesforce have security functionality built-in, they don't consider the levels of customization and complexity that organizations introduce while implementing these solutions. Security configurations: One of the most critical focus areas for Salesforce security is proper configurations.
Salesforce announced Salesforce Hyperforce, a reimagination of the company's platform architecture built to securely and reliably deliver the Salesforce Customer 360, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Industries and more, on major public clouds. Salesforce is the world's #1 CRM, providing hundreds of thousands of global companies with a single source of truth that connects customer data across systems, apps and devices to help them sell, service, market and conduct commerce, from anywhere.
Salesforce and Slack have entered into a definitive agreement under which Salesforce will acquire Slack. Under the terms of the agreement, Slack shareholders will receive $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of Salesforce common stock for each Slack share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $27.7 billion based on the closing price of Salesforce's common stock on November 30, 2020.
Salesforce and Oracle are to face a GDPR lawsuit in London and the Netherlands that could cost them up to €10bn in fines, a legally aggressive privacy campaign group has claimed to The Register. Dr Rebecca Rumbul of the Privacy Collective told The Register: "We're looking at informed consent. Bluekai would collect data not just on one particular site but other sites too and then aggregate that data. The key thing is, under GDPR who is the data processor legally? You should be able to figure that out."
Tanium and Salesforce have come together in a strategic relationship to help solve one of today's most compelling and urgent problems: how does security manage a workforce that has migrated from in-house company desktops to remote personal devices. The amount of the investment has not been disclosed, but Tanium said it brings the company's valuation to around $9 billion.