Salesforce Security Architecture for Zero-Trust, Encryption & Compliance

Abstract

Salesforce has become one of the most popular cloud platforms, so the security architecture has become critical in ensuring
the security of sensitive data that belongs to an enterprise. The paper will analyze the ways Salesforce has implemented
Zero-Trust, state-of-the-art encryption, and international regulatory frameworks to protect multi-tenant environments.
It compares Salesforce identity-first security model, multi-layered access control, and continuous authentication designs,
which aim to remove implicit trust. The paper also discusses Shield Platform Encryption, key management practices, and
in-transit protection that all make data confidential and intact. Also, the study assesses monitoring and threat-detection
of Salesforce, its compliance with regulatory requirements like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP. Results show how
Salesforce has been fully moving towards its defense-in-depth model without overstating the shared-responsibility
paradigm between the platform provider and the customer. The paper concludes that the dynamic Salesforce security
architecture offers a stable platform to the contemporary business environment that pursues Zero-Trust, encryptionfocused,
and compliance-based data security.