Salesforce is the world’s #1 customer relationship management platform. For most organizations, it is the backbone that governs customer data and workflows. Salesforce drives revenue and connects to most internal and third-party systems. It has become the backbone of today’s business operations. Yet, as companies of all sizes lean harder on this tool, the security of their Salesforce environments has been increasingly called into question. Raxis is a cybersecurity company that focuses on red team operations and pen-testing. To do this, they examine important security concerns as they utilize innovative technology and methodology to discover weaknesses concealed inside Salesforce.
The Complexity of Salesforce Environments
Salesforce environments are constantly evolving and changing, rendering perimeter-based or traditional security measures impractical at best. Organizations make the mistake of thinking they don’t need to maintain visibility into these rapidly changing landscapes. Raxis goes beyond the typical automated scanning approach with Salesforce-aware scanning tools that increase visibility. This enables organizations to keep pace with the constant evolution occurring in their Salesforce environments.
The way that the added complexities of Salesforce gets tricky and complicated quickly is in its permission structures. These systems govern who has access to what data, leading to a maze of permissions that often rivals a funhouse in complexity. Raxis uses leading edge tools that can decode these new permission matrices and put a complete picture together of access rights. Being able to recognize upcoming security threats is key. Interactions between misconfigured permissions or overly permissive access controls can lead to some major vulnerabilities.
Comprehensive Security Testing Methods
Raxis takes a deep-dive approach from identifying custom Apex code and scanning it for unsafe methods, logic flaws, and injection risks. Apex code, the proprietary programming language used on the Salesforce platform, can present security vulnerabilities if not closely controlled. Raxis performs a thorough analysis of the code to identify any security vulnerabilities that may exist. They resolve these problems before someone has a chance to take advantage of them.
Raxis does detailed code reviews and then some. They map profile and permission interactions to further understand how permissions are being used in the org. This rich contextual mapping improves the fidelity of security risk assessments. It further considers which roles a user may have and what level of access they should have. Raxis tests tokens and third-party integrations to make sure that outside connections aren’t opening other potential vulnerabilities.
Demonstrating Exploitable Risks
Raxis goes a step further by being proactive and using proof-of-concept exploits to show organizations exactly what theoretical risks are exploitable. This hands-on demonstration is key in empowering businesses to better understand the true impact of vulnerabilities in their Salesforce environments. By showing how these risks can be exploited, Raxis enables organizations to focus their security resources where it matters most.
Raxis leverages the right tools to find obscurely nested permissions and cross-object access paths. More importantly, they expose inheritance logic that may exist within all Salesforce environments. These capabilities, when combined, help organizations to discover lurking risks that aren’t visible in typical security operations. This multifaceted approach clues in companies on the eight essential practices. It assists them in further developing security controls and monitoring their Salesforce environments for misconfiguration or other potential threats.