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Kriti KhannaKriti Khanna 

Data loss in salesforce?

Hi,
Despite so many measures taken by salesforce to safe keep our data, i would like to know if data loss is still possible in salesforce ?

Thanks 
Kriti khanna
Shubham NandwanaShubham Nandwana
Hi Kriti,
Salesforce provides good security to safeguard a user's data. They provide roles, profiles, field level security, organization-wide defaults and many more.
Although data loss in Salesforce can be credited to some reasons. It may happen on account of changing date or time, migrating data from one type to other types, a change from multi-select pick list to different classes. In addition to this, data loss might occur on account of alterations to multi-select picklist, a shift in auto-numbering, and switch from a text area to email, URL and phone services.
Hope it gives you an idea.
You can also read data security trailhead. https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/modules/data_security/units/data_security_overview

Shubham Nandwana.
AppPerfect Corp.
salesforce@appperfect.com
408-252-4100
http://www.appperfect.com/services/salesforce/
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James Connor 7James Connor 7
While Salesforce provides us with our data's security, as Shubham mentioned, Data loss could happen at any time. That's why you need to provide some security for yourself. I did so by reading this article about data loss prevention tools at https://spinbackup.com/blog/data-loss-prevention-tool-advantages/. It helped me to understand the importance of having such tools.