Salesforce Winter ’26

A New Way to Protect Your Data: Understanding Salesforce’s Database-Level Encryption

A New Way to Protect Your Data: Understanding Salesforce’s Database-Level Encryption

Salesforce has introduced a new security capability that allows organizations to encrypt the entire transactional database at rest with the Winter ‘26 Release. This is a significant update because it provides an additional, simpler path to protect sensitive information without the configuration and complexity traditionally associated with field-level encryption.