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Mastering Apex Programming

You're reading from   Mastering Apex Programming A Salesforce developer's guide to learn advanced techniques and programming best practices for building robust and scalable enterprise-grade applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837638352
Length 394 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (28) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Triggers, Testing, and Security
2. Chapter 1: Common Apex Mistakes FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Debugging Apex 4. Chapter 3: Triggers and Managing Trigger Execution 5. Chapter 4: Exceptions and Exception Handling 6. Chapter 5: Testing Apex Code 7. Chapter 6: Secure Apex Programming 8. Section 2: Asynchronous Apex
9. Chapter 7: Utilizing Future Methods 10. Chapter 8: Working with Batch Apex 11. Chapter 9: Working with Queueable Apex 12. Chapter 10: Scheduling Apex Jobs 13. Section 3: Integrations
14. Chapter 11: Integrating with Salesforce 15. Chapter 12: Using Platform Events 16. Chapter 13: Apex and Flow 17. Chapter 14: Apex REST and Custom Web Services 18. Chapter 15: Outbound Integrations – REST 19. Chapter 16: Outbound Integrations – SOAP 20. Chapter 17: DataWeave in Apex 21. Section 4: Apex Performance
22. Chapter 18: Performance and the Salesforce Governor Limits 23. Chapter 19: Performance Profiling 24. Chapter 20: Improving Apex Performance 25. Chapter 21: Performance and Application Architectures 26. Index 27. Other Books You May Enjoy

Secure Apex Programming

In the previous chapters of this book, we covered ways in which we can improve our Apex code to ensure that we minimize the number of basic errors we receive and also make it easier to handle and deal with them. In this chapter, we are going to finish this first part of the book by discussing how we can make Apex more secure and ensure that users are not able to perform actions that we do not intend for them.

There are many reasons this is important, but the key among them is ensuring that should a user become malicious or their account get compromised, then the damage they can do is limited. I worked with a client who had a faulty website integration design that allowed external users to view all contacts and accounts within the system. Their web developers had noticed this issue and recommended the client get it fixed by a Salesforce consultant (hence my involvement).

At that time, the client was initially unsure of the severity and impact of this security...

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