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Salesforce Encryption - part 1

June 30, 2015
By Anthony Scotney

It was disheartening to read that a Financial Services Regulator's guidelines around data sovereignty lead to the termination of a Salesforce® deployment by a large bank. This mandate at least in part resulted in the bank abandoning their $10 million Salesforce investment. The reason this is a disheartening result is because there are cloud data protection solutions (such as Salesforce encryption) that can alleviate much of the security concern that exists with cloud applications.