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SALESFORCE #TIPS – Root Certification change from Digicert G1 to G2

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You have probably received a Salesforce notification about Digicert Root Certification change (from Digicert G1 to Digicert G2) on Salesforce side. Don’t throw this email !

Salesforce is about to impact its security certification structure, meaning that you will not be able to connect / interact with your Salesforce instance anymore, if your system or data integration chain is not prepared for this change.

Salesforce notification on the certificate change

Who is impacted by this change ?

You may be impacted, by the certificate change, in the following cases :

  • you use Salesforce through an outdated computer and web browser, or through a custom app whose code is not properly managed or contains hard-coded connectivity information.
  • your Salesforce instance is connected to other servers (for data synchronisation)
  • your Salesforce instance is connected to middleware solutions or integration platforms (for data synchronisation)

If you are in this case, and do not audit your connections / applications before February 5th, your users may experiment connectivity issues when trying to logging to / reaching out your Salesforce instance.

If you have developed custom applications, or data synchronisation processes / flows, make sure that you have not hard-coded certificate-related information in your code, due to either a lack of best practices, or because you have implemented certificate pinning on « to-be-expired » certificate for security purpose.

Am I concerned if I am a Salesforce user ?

To be able to connect to Salesforce (User interface, or technical one), you must ensure that your server / custom application / web browser trusts the Digicert G2 Root Certification.

Most users accessing Salesforce, through their web browsers, are already up-to-date, if they regularly update their browser application, when requested to do so. Indeed, all recent and browsers already includes this certification in their trust store.

To test its presence on your browser, you can either :

  • Or access directly your Chrome Root Store through your Chrome System page by navigating to : chrome://system. Click « Expand… » button on the chrome_root_store line :
Digicert G2 Root certificate – Access your Chrome trust store

You can also find the certificates handled by Chrome in the following document : https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/net/data/ssl/chrome_root_store/root_store.md

As you can see in the screenshots above, both G1 and G2 Root certifications are present in this Chrome trust store. Even G3 Root certification is present 🙂

Subject
CN=DigiCert Global Root CA,OU=www.digicert.com,O=DigiCert Inc,C=US
CN=DigiCert Global Root G2,OU=www.digicert.com,O=DigiCert Inc,C=US
CN=DigiCert Global Root G3,OU=www.digicert.com,O=DigiCert Inc,C=US

Winter’24 – Permission Set Summary (Beta)

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In Winter’24 preview, there is a new feature that is in beta testing, that allows to consolidate and present an overall vision of all permissions present within a given Permission Set.

To access this summary, you should navigate in Setup, to the given permission set, and click on « View Summary (beta)« 

A complete summary of all included permissions, of this Permission Set, is then displayed, without needing to deep dive in the usual permission menu (that you could see in the grey section of the bottom of the previous screenshot).

The top section of the page displays :

  • A first block with the Permission Set summary information,
  • Information about all permission set groups, which include the Permission Set

The section below presents :

  • The System Permissions present within the enabled Permission Set (before you had to go to the System Permission sub menu, and scroll through the whole page with all System Permissions, to see which ones have been enabled),
  • The Object permissions
  • The Field permissions