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description: Security Center Extension by Own from Salesforce helps enhance data security and compliance. After installing the Security Center Extension managed package, use it to find sensitive data and manage data classification and user access settings. You can then decide how best to secure that data by using other Salesforce settings and features. The Who Sees What Explorer tab shows object and field-level access and permission assignments. On the Data Classification tab, find and classify sensitive fields such as personal information or financial data. The Security Insights tab helps you analyze your security posture and generates a risk-prioritized list of security gaps.
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# Security Center Extension

Security Center Extension by Own from Salesforce helps enhance data security and compliance. After installing the Security Center Extension managed package, use it to find sensitive data and manage data classification and user access settings. You can then decide how best to secure that data by using other Salesforce settings and features. The Who Sees What Explorer tab shows object and field-level access and permission assignments. On the Data Classification tab, find and classify sensitive fields such as personal information or financial data. The Security Insights tab helps you analyze your security posture and generates a risk-prioritized list of security gaps.

- **[Getting Started with Security Center Extension](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.sc_ext_get_started.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Security Center Extension is a useful Salesforce admin tool. It assists admins in classifying data, looking at and improving their security, and managing permissions and alerts. The Security Center Extension has features to compare security settings with best practices, learn about changes to the settings, and schedule regular analysis. It also has detailed views and customizable alerts.
- **[Data Classification in Secure](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.sc_ext_classify_in_classification_tab.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    After you create Sensitivity Levels and Compliance Categories on the Settings tab, the fields within the org can be assigned a classification on the Data Classification tab.
- **[Security Insights in Secure](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.sc_ext_use_security_insights.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Security Insights is an automated tool that generates a risk-prioritized list of security gaps, and helps you decide where risk mitigation efforts should be focused. For example, security analysts can identify and address risky configurations and deviations from best practices, and then recommend setting enhancements that align settings with security policies.
- **[Who Sees What Explorer Tab in Secure](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.sc_ext_who_sees_what_explorer_tab.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The Who Sees What Explorer tab in Secure provides five lenses to help administrators understand and manage user access to objects, records, and system permissions within the Salesforce Org. Each lens offers a unique perspective and detailed insights, enabling precise access control and compliance monitoring.
- **[Time Machine](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.sc_ext_time_machine.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The Time Machine allows you to view results from previous analysis jobs within Security Insights and the Platform Encryption Analyzer, along with previous snapshots that were scheduled and captured in Data Classification and the History Retention Policy Manager.