Jun 25, 2026
When a security incident hits your Salesforce organization, every team wants a clear picture of what happened, is something still exposed, and how to mitigate the issues.
Salesforce has published multiple articles on the topic, such as the walkthrough on forensic reconstruction of a security incident, with details on how to manually correlate different logs, map permissions, and trace what was accessed and when. This forensic guide is helpful, but it is designed to help security teams understand and patch security vulnerability after a breach, not to prevent or mitigate one.
To that end, Salesforce has published guidance on setting up behavioral baselines and anomaly detection. This involves writing custom scripts to query historical logs and calculate statistical thresholds (such as Z-scores) to determine anomalous activity.
Although the process is well documented, for most teams it’s a hassle that requires knowledge of different logs, files, and dashboards. Achieving good results often requires close coordination between Salesforce admins and the security team.
Another issue of these methods is their reliance on Event Monitoring logs, an add-on many teams lack. While the logs are very detailed and comprehensive, there is no inherent baseline or alert system in place. Turning these logs into something actionable requires further add-ons, or defining, writing and maintaining complex detection scripts and queries together with your Org.
Two manual problems, one missing layer
Both forensic reconstruction and baseline monitoring rely on manual discovery or setup work, resources which busy Salesforce administrators lack.
What's missing in both cases is the ability to correlate different logs, identify suspicious events, and handle alerting without manual setup or rule configuration.
Valo offers precisely this: a continuous, near-real-time monitoring system for Salesforce with built-in anomaly detection and alerting logic. As a stand-alone turnkey solution, you can simply connect the integration, wait for Valo to establish the baseline, and rest easy. Valo alerts you of anomalous activity independently, as soon as suspicious actions are spotted in the logs.
When an anomaly (such as an unusual report export or anomalous object access) does occur, Valo's Insights give you an immediate, high-fidelity alert with the context and details needed to understand what has happened and how to respond. No need to scour through spreadsheets!
Zero setup
The Salesforce baselining guide is explicit about what it takes to get from raw logs to production level alerts.
Define what "normal" looks like for your Org
Calculate thresholds for suspicious activity
Maintain the model as the Org and usage change over time
That's a lot of engineering work sitting on top of the already significant Event Monitoring cost.
Valo skips that step in its entirety. There's no baseline to define and no threshold to tune before you get value. Valo's detection logic dynamically adjusts to your Salesforce Org’s usage, autonomously spotting and alerting you of anomalous behavior.
Looking beyond reconstruction
Responding to Salesforce security incidents can be slowed down by the "language barrier" between the security team and the Salesforce administration. Security teams know how to hunt threats, but they might not understand the specifics of Salesforce metadata or permission logic. Conversely, Salesforce teams have extensive platform and system knowledge, but can lack experience in forensic reconstruction or activity monitoring.
Valo’s security insights are designed with this in mind. They translate complex Salesforce information into understandable and actionable alerts, allowing both teams to look at the same dashboard and understand what has happened. No more back-and-forth asking for log exports or explaining how Sharing Rules are configured. The data is presented in a way that is actionable for everyone.
Valo’s approach allows you to move from reconstruction to resolution. By identifying risks like poor integration configuration or access drift before they are exploited, you reduce the need for forensic analysis in the first place.
The information shared in the Salesforce articles can be useful to any organization, but your Org’s security shouldn’t rely on just that. Valo takes the heavy lifting out of Salesforce security, giving your team the tools to stop hunting through logs and start securing your Org.
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About Viljami
Viljami is a Product Developer at Valo, responsible for feature design and the application's user interface. With a background spanning software engineering, product development and design, he brings a product mindset to the engineering team's work. Outside the office, you can catch him sailing, skiing, or at the gym.
