Sample Application: Securing Data

The fictional organization driving the development of your Services Manager sample application is organized into independent business units by geography. Business units generally do not share resources or projects, but might do so in special circumstances. All business units roll up to an executive team, which has access to all data. The employees of each business unit perform essentially the same tasks: booking deals, staffing projects, billing time on projects, and invoicing their clients.

From this description of the organization’s structure, consider how to make the best use of the data security features of Force.com. The goal is to allow users access to precisely the right data they need in order to perform their jobs, no more and no less. The configuration of Force.com security features necessary to achieve the goal will be referred to as the security model.

In this section, you will walk through the design, implementation, and testing of the security model for the Services Manager application.