Salesforce Shield is for organizations that need to meet extra security and compliance requirements. Four components make up Salesforce Shield (encryption, enhanced field audit trail, event monitoring, and Einstein Data Detect) with encryption being the main one
Shield Platform Encryption lets you control and rotate the key material used to encrypt your data. You can use Salesforce to generate a tenant secret for you, which is then combined with a per-release master secret to derive a data encryption key.Shield Platform Encryption lets you encrypt a wide variety of standard fields and custom fields. You can also encrypt files and attachments stored in Salesforce, Salesforce search indexes, and more. We continue to make more fields and files available for encryption.
Create real-time security policies to prevent undesired events and reduce risk.
Know the state of sensitive data to keep up with ever-changing regulations.
Identify, categorize and encrypt data to mitigate threats and avoid costs associated with data loss.