In today’s data-driven world, ensuring the security and compliance of your Salesforce environment is more important than ever. That’s why our recent Lunch & Learn focused on Salesforce Shield—a powerful security add-on suite designed to give organizations enhanced protection, visibility, and control over their data.

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.

When it comes to file encryption in Salesforce, there is a ton of information available – so much so that it threatens to overwhelm a casual researcher.  We here at Eigen X empathize with that plight and are here to help.  Below, we’ve debunked the top five myths surrounding file encryption so you don’t need to.