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BalkanID for Salesforce

Salesforce holds your most valuable customer data. Profiles, permission sets, and sharing rules create one of the most complex access models in enterprise SaaS. Most organizations cannot answer who can actually see or export that data. BalkanID can.
The Challenge

Salesforce access is layered, complex, and almost impossible to audit manually.

Profiles, permission sets, sharing rules, roles, and connected app permissions create a permission model so layered that effective access is nearly impossible to determine without dedicated tooling.

Effective Salesforce access is impossible to trace manually

A user's actual access in Salesforce is the product of their profile, permission set assignments, sharing rules, and role hierarchy. Understanding what any given user can actually see, edit, or export requires resolving all four layers simultaneously.

Privilege creep is endemic in Salesforce environments

Permission sets are additive. Over time, users accumulate sets assigned for specific tasks, project access, or temporary needs that were never removed. Effective access grows far beyond what any role or job function requires.

Connected apps and API integrations are ungoverned

Connected apps, named credentials, and API users with System Administrator or custom profiles have broad access to customer data. They are rarely audited for scope, ownership, or continued necessity.

How BalkanID Solves It

End-to-end Salesforce identity governance. Five capabilities. One platform.

BalkanID integrates with Salesforce to bring continuous risk detection, role analysis, access reviews, lifecycle automation, and JITPBAC into a single governed view across your entire Salesforce org.

IAM Risk Analyzer

Surface every Salesforce access risk continuously

Reduced CRM data exposure · Findings with recommended remediations

Continuously scan for excessive profiles, over-broad permission sets, ungoverned connected apps, and segregation of duties violations across all Salesforce users and integration accounts. Every finding prioritized by severity.

  • Scan across users, profiles, permission sets, roles, and connected apps
  • Findings across all identity types including API users and integration accounts
  • SoD violations detected and explained with recommended remediations, including financial workflow conflicts
  • Dormant accounts and unused permission sets flagged for review
RBAC Analyzer

Understand effective Salesforce access and the path to least privilege

Least privilege on CRM data · Permission set sprawl eliminated

Model every Salesforce profile, permission set, and role hierarchy assignment, resolve the effective access each combination produces, and score each user's access for risk. Birthright analysis ensures consistent, justified provisioning.

  • Effective access resolved across profiles, permission sets, and sharing rules simultaneously
  • Role Risk Factor per Salesforce profile and permission set combination
  • Confidence scores for permission set assignment consistency across similar roles
  • Ideal state view with path to least-privilege Salesforce access
User Access Reviews

Access reviews for every Salesforce user and every entitlement

Audit-ready evidence · No manual permission exports

Run access certifications for all Salesforce identities with effective access resolved. Approvers see last login, profile, permission set list, effective data access, and recommended action. Not a raw permission set export.

  • Connected reviews, Salesforce org synced in real time
  • Effective access reviews resolving profiles, permission sets, and sharing rules
  • Connected app and API user reviews with access scope surfaced
  • Evidence generated automatically for SOX, SOC 2, and internal audit windows
Lifecycle Management & JML Playbooks

Right Salesforce access on day one. Removed the day they leave.

Zero residual CRM access · Offboarding verified

Automate Joiner, Mover, and Leaver events from your HRIS to Salesforce. New hires get the correct profile and permission sets based on peer analysis of colleagues with the same role. Leavers have all Salesforce access removed and accounts deactivated immediately.

  • Joiner, correct Salesforce profile and permission sets provisioned on day one via peer analysis
  • Mover, permission sets recalculated atomically on role or territory change
  • Leaver, Salesforce account deactivated and all permission sets removed immediately on termination
JITPBAC & Non-Human Identity Governance

Eliminate standing Salesforce admin access. Govern every API integration.

No standing System Admin access · Connected apps governed

Replace persistent System Administrator profile assignments with just-in-time, purpose-based grants. For connected apps, named credentials, and API users, full discovery, scope analysis, and continuous governance.

  • JITPBAC, System Admin or sensitive permission set granted for a defined window then auto-revoked
  • No standing admin access on production Salesforce orgs
  • Connected app discovery, every integration scope-analysed and owner-assigned
  • Continuous governance across all Salesforce orgs and sandboxes

Every Salesforce user. Every entitlement. Always governed.

BalkanID gives your team a live view of Salesforce access risk with effective permissions resolved across profiles, permission sets, sharing rules, and connected apps.

  • Profiles, permission sets, and roles with effective access resolved and risk-scored continuously
  • SoD violations in Salesforce detected and explained with recommended remediations
  • Dormant accounts and accumulated permission sets flagged by severity
  • Connected apps and API users fully discovered, scope-analysed, and governed
Business outcomes

Least privilege enforced

Permission set sprawl identified with effective access resolved. SoD violations detected and remediated continuously.

CRM data protected

JITPBAC eliminates standing System Admin access. No persistent foothold in your Salesforce org for compromised accounts.

Audit-ready evidence

SOX, SOC 2, and internal audit evidence from live Salesforce data. No manual permission exports.

Automated Joiner, Mover, and Leaver

Onboard, offboard, and manage transitions with automated lifecycle workflows and verified Salesforce offboarding.

Get Started

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