SFDC ShieldWall – Security Posture & Integration Gate for Salesforce
10/10
Demand Score
Increasing breaches and compliance audits target misconfigured Salesforce and over‑permissive integrations.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$2k-15k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
12 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A managed package plus sidecar gateway that continuously hardens Salesforce orgs and their integrations. It scans metadata/Apex/Flows for risky patterns, validates CRUD/FLS/permission set drift, and e
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 3 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Salesforce Shield
- Salesforce Security Center/Health Check
- OwnBackup Secure
- Varonis
- Snyk Code (Apex)
- Metazoa/Gearset compliance
- Nightfall DLP
Must-Have Features for MVP
Metadata/Apex/Flow static analysis with secure patterns library
CRUD/FLS/permission set drift detection and auto‑fix suggestions
Connected App OAuth scope governance and secret rotation
Sidecar gateway with mTLS, IP allowlists, schema and payload validation
Field‑level tokenization and reversible encryption for sensitive data
Anomaly detection from Event Monitoring logs with UEBA
DLP policies for reports, exports, and API queries
Git PR generation with remediation steps and unit tests
Compliance mapping (CIS, NIST, SOC 2) with audit reports
Break‑glass workflows with time‑bound access
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Event Monitoring add‑on may be required for deep telemetry
- Gateway insertion must avoid latency and downtime
- Complex orgs with layered permission sets can create false positives
- AppExchange security review timelines
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- Low‑friction deployment (managed package + gateway)
- Actionable, low‑noise findings with guided fixes
- Provable reduction in over‑permissive access and risky integrations
- Alignment with auditors and security frameworks
- Scales from SMB to enterprise orgs
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