Secure organization data using OWD
Organization-wide default is also known as OWD. This is the base-level sharing and setting of objects in any organization. By using this, you can secure your data so that other users can't access data to which they haven't been allowed access. The following diagram shows the basic record security in Salesforce. In this, OWD plays a key role:
It's a base-level object setting in the organization, and you can't restrict the access below this. We will now discuss OWD in Salesforce.
A business scenario: Alok Sinfal is the system administrator at Universal Containers. As per the business requirement, he wants to set the security setting for the lead object so that the user who has created or owns the lead records, as well as users that are higher in the role hierarchy, can access the records.
Before thinking about any solution, you have to think about the OWD because it is the base-level setting to restrict object-level access in Salesforce...
