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is salesforce shield pci compliant

by Mrs. Yasmine Kihn Published 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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Yes. As of January 2021, Salesforce is PCI certified. Salesforce keeps an updated list of which of their clouds have what certifications on their Trust site. You can always check back there for the latest on PCI compliance.

Salesforce is compliant with key global industry standards including ISO 27001, SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 SOC-1, SOC 2, SOC 3, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, and TÜV Rheinland Certified Cloud Service. Transparency is key to how we operate and is a core tenet of our trust platform.

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What is Salesforce shield?

Salesforce Shield Salesforce Shield is a trio of security tools that helps admins and developers build extra levels of trust, compliance, and governance right into business-critical apps. It includes Shield Platform Encryption, Event Monitoring, and Field Audit Trail.

What compliance certifications does Salesforce offer?

Salesforce maintains a comprehensive set of compliance certifications and attestations to validate our #1 value of Trust. PCI DSS.

What are the benefits of shield platform encryption?

See Shield Platform Encryption. Real-Time Event Monitoring gives you access to detailed performance, security, and usage data on all your Salesforce apps. See who is accessing critical business data when, and from where.

What is PCI DSS and why is it important?

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) is a proprietary information security standard designed to ensure that companies processing, storing or transmitting payment card information maintain a secure environment.

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Is Salesforce PCI compliant?

Salesforce Billing became PCI Level 1 compliant in 2012 and has retained its compliance every year afterward.

Is Salesforce shield Hipaa compliant?

Salesforce can be HIPAA compliant, but you must talk to your account representative to sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA). You can connect Salesforce to “Shield” premium services for additional monitoring, encryption, and auditing.

What is Salesforce shield?

Salesforce Shield is a trio of security tools that helps you build extra levels of trust, compliance, and governance right into your business-critical apps. It includes Shield Platform Encryption, Event Monitoring, and Field Audit Trail.

What can businesses do with Salesforce shield?

Salesforce Shield provides enhanced protection, monitoring, and retention of your critical data stored in Salesforce. Native Encryption: Natively encrypt your most sensitive data while retaining critical app functionality including search, workflow, and validation rules.

Does my CRM need to be HIPAA compliant?

A CRM software platform is HIPAA-compliant if it ensures that all patient data remains confidential, backed up and securely stored. You must only transmit encrypted data and have complete control over the data in your CRM – that means no unauthorized intake, access, creation, storage or sharing of data.

Is Salesforce service Cloud HIPAA compliant?

Yes, the Salesforce platform itself can be made HIPAA compliant. Salesforce will sign a Business Associates Agreement (BAA) and if you connect Shield you'll get monitoring, encryption, and auditing functionality of your Salesforce instance.

Is Salesforce shield an add on?

Salesforce Shield is available as an add-on and is priced at a percentage of a customer's total Salesforce product spend.

How do I use Salesforce shield?

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How do you know if you have Salesforce shield?

Contact Salesforce to get Shield Platform Encryption License. Shield Platform Encryption is automatically available in Developer Edition orgs created on or after the Summer of 2015.Check this permission are available in case if you have Licensed.

How many fields can Salesforce shield track?

60 fieldsYou can update the retention policy on an object as often as needed. With Field Audit Trail, you can track up to 60 fields per object. Without it, you can track only 20 fields per object. With Field Audit Trail, archived field history data is stored until you manually delete it.

Is event monitoring part of Salesforce shield?

Salesforce Shield is a trio of security tools that helps you build extra levels of trust, compliance, and governance right into your business-critical apps. It includes Shield Platform Encryption, Event Monitoring, and Field Audit Trail.

What's the difference between classic encryption and shield platform encryption?

Classic encryption lets you protect a special type of custom text field, which you create for that purpose. With Shield Platform Encryption, you can encrypt a variety of widely used standard fields, along with some custom fields and many kinds of files.

Why should I be PCI compliant?

In short, you should be PCI compliant because it protects both your organization and your customers.

How many PCI standards are there?

There are 12 PCI certification standards that your organization must follow, namely ensuring a secure network, building security controls, and implementing measures to manage data vulnerability. The board will review your assessment and determine if your company’s data security process meets its standards.

Why use Chargent in Salesforce?

Using Chargent to process Salesforce payments gives your teams the tools to maintain compliance while giving a better experience for your customers. Customers can self-serve through payment request links sent by your team, keeping card information private. Cardholder data is not stored on your servers, but is processed securely by your payment gateway and payment processor. Many of these tasks can be automated through Chargent, letting your team be more efficient.

What is PCI level 4?

Many US businesses fall into PCI Level 4, any organization that takes between 1 and 20,000 card transactions per year. Another way to think about it is less than 1,667 transactions per month. PCI Level 3 is for those organizations that process between 20,000 and 1 million transactions per year.

Why is protecting cardholder data important?

Protecting cardholder data should be a top priority for everyone, from C-level executives to the person answering the phones. When you transmit cardholder data, that process is held up to security standards around PCI whether you have awareness of the protocols or not. Not following security controls can lead to damaging data breaches and loss of trust from your customers.

Is PCI compliance important?

Setting up a PCI Compliance strategy can be a big, but important undertaking. If you’re looking to process recurring billing or donations, you have special considerations for your Salesforce payment processing. For those interested in more information about what PCI Compliance is, read our article covering that topic.

Can you take away PCI scope?

Please keep in mind that no organization can absolve or take away another organization’s PCI scope entirely. Many companies like Salesforce and Chargent can help you reduce your PCI scope. However, if you take credit cards, you will always have some level of PCI compliance burden.

What is PCI DSS?

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), is a set of standards determined by the PCI Security Standards Council which protects consumers credit card data. All companies that collect, store and exchange card holder data must comply with the PCI standards.

Why are PCI standards important?

The standards were created to assist organizations that process credit cards to protect from fraud through increased controls around data and its exposure to compromise. The controls through PCI surround, collecting, processing, storing and exchanging cardholder data.

What is Salesforce App?

The Salesforce App allows a seamless integration with existing Salesforce environments that will allow companies to either have an internal or external (publicly accessed) checkout page that they could use with the HostedPCI solution. Within the salesforce payment terminal HostedPCI has now added 3D secure capabilities in order for companies to have more security against chargebacks and fraud.

Does hosted PCI work with Salesforce?

HostedPCI has now integrated our Call Center Solution into our SalesForce App, the image below is a screen shot of our IVR within SalesForce. For further details on how to use our IVR in Salesforce, please visit the link at the button of the page.

What is shield learning map?

The Shield Learning Map is a friendly, centralized resource for all things Shield. No matter which Shield product you buy or how you plan to use it, the learning map offers a clear path toward success. You can find links to the Shield Learning Map from Shield product documentation, or go directly to https://shieldlearningmap.com.

What is event monitoring in Salesforce?

Real-Time Event Monitoring gives you access to detailed performance, security, and usage data on all your Salesforce apps. See who is accessing critical business data when, and from where. Understand user adoption across your apps. Troubleshoot and optimize performance to improve end-user experience. Event Monitoring data is tracked via the API and can be imported into any data visualization or application monitoring tool, like Analytics, Splunk, or New Relic. To get started, check out our Event Monitoring training course.

What is the Lightning platform?

The Lightning Platform provides mobile app builder tools for everyone, from code-free drag-and-drop app builders to developer platforms that support any language. No matter what app your company needs to drive its business strategy, the Lightning Platform provides tools that can revolutionize how you do business.

Does Salesforce encrypt sensitive data?

Natively encrypt your most sensitive data at rest across all of your Salesforce apps with Platform Encryption.

How to contact Salesforce?

Salesforce has all kinds of add-ons, apps, and additional products to help your company stay ahead in your industry. Call us at 1-800-667-6389 to discuss exactly what kind of products you’re looking to add and how we can help.

How is Salesforce contract price calculated?

The contract price is calculated as a percentage of how much you spend on other applicable, technically compatible Salesforce products. If you have questions about which of your products are applicable, reach out to a sales representative at 1-800-667-6389 for details.

Does Salesforce integrate with MuleSoft?

In many cases, Salesforce products integrate directly with many outside applications and systems to help you connect your data. For those that don’t have built- in integration, like on-premises data sources, you can purchase licenses of MuleSoft, work with our integration partners, or use apps on AppExchange.

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The Cost of Data Breaches

  • A data breach is not only costly, but could also be fatal to your company. Whether your customer base is 100% virtual or point of sale, PCI compliance is critical. Chargent for Salesforce can help reduce your PCI scope, making the task of maintaining PCI compliance easier. The US average cost of a data breach in 2020 was $8.64M according to an IBM ...
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Top 5 Questions Asked by Business Leaders

  • Question 1: Why does my organization need to be PCI compliant?
    Your organization needs to be PCI compliant to ensure that your customer’s data security is not at risk. You absolutely need to protect your brand from getting tarnished by an intrusion that exposes your customers’ data. The fact is, a cardholder data breach would cost you and your bu…
  • Question 2: Is Salesforce PCI compliant?
    Yes. As of January 2021, Salesforce is PCI certified. Salesforce keeps an updated list of which of their clouds have what certifications on their Trustsite. You can always check back there for the latest on PCI compliance. As of this article’s publication, all of these Clouds are listed on Salesfo…
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Chargent Tools For Secure Payments

  • Using Chargent to process Salesforce payments gives your teams the tools to maintain compliance while giving a better experience for your customers. Customers can self-serve through payment request links sent by your team, keeping card information private. Cardholder data is not stored on your servers, but is processed securely by your payment gateway and pay…
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Top Security Standards

  • Today, your company’s security standards are more important than ever. Securing your customer’s credit card data protects them and your company from potential disaster. Chargent for Salesforce helps reduce your PCI scope with 30+ direct payment gateways. Take online payments, send Payment Requests, or manage recurring billing knowing that your customer’s da…
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