What You Can’t See Can Hurt You: The Guide to Governance in Salesforce

Our attention is drawn to mistakes and blatant vulnerabilities, but unseen dangers pose the greatest threats. Excessive permissions, misconfigured integrations, and unclassified sensitive data can silently accumulate until a breach or outage forces them into view. By then, it’s often too late.

Many teams double down on innovation while assuming governance will catch up later. But when security becomes a downstream consideration, risk multiplies in the background. AI, citizen development, and accelerated release cycles only amplify the stakes. Left unchecked, the very tools that drive growth can compromise it.

This guide is designed to illuminate those hidden vulnerabilities and offer a path forward. We’ll break down the governance failures most teams don’t realize they have and what it takes to fix them. Because in Salesforce, what you don’t see can hurt you.