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description: Prepare for new and upcoming security enhancements. Restore data more effectively and gain control over backup operations. Ensure your integrations stay connected by switching to unique, branded web addresses. Meet standard regulations with AI-driven insights.
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# Security, Identity, and Privacy

Prepare for new and upcoming security enhancements. Restore data more effectively and gain control over backup operations. Ensure your integrations stay connected by switching to unique, branded web addresses. Meet standard regulations with AI-driven insights.

- **[Security Enhancements](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_enhancements.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    Prepare for new and upcoming security enhancements.
- **[Backup and Recover Next](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_bar.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    Gain more control over backup operations, with the ability to start and stop backups on demand.
- **[Domains](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_domains.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    Route your domain URLs through Salesforce Edge Network.
- **[Identity and Access Management](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_auth_and_identity.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    Use login history and login events to see Authentication Context Class Reference (ACR) values sent by SSO identity providers. Protect your data by switching to the OAuth 2.0 web-server or client credentials flows before the username-password flow stops working.
- **[Named Credentials](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_named_credentials.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    When you create an external auth identity provider, the callback URL is constructed using the org’s My Domain name.
- **[Security Health Review](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_health_review.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    Security Health Review evaluates your org against Salesforce security best practices and provides on-demand security posture reports with remediation guidance.
- **[Security Center Essentials (Generally Available)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_center_essentials.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    Security curious? Check out Security Center Essentials, a powerful dashboard that shows your org’s Health Check score plus six other fundamental Security Center metrics at no additional cost.
- **[Health Check](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_health_check_changes.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    Health Check has received several new signals to help keep your org secure, and admins now receive weekly notifications by default.
- **[Privacy Center](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_privacy_center.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    Centralize customer consent and automate data compliance across Privacy Center. With Global Consent Manager, store consent in a single, scalable system of record and manage billions of consent interactions across your marketing and data processing activities. With Agentforce in Privacy Center, use AI-powered metadata scans and remediation suggestions to detect potential issues and help meet regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA.
- **[Salesforce Shield](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_shield.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    Shield improvements cut down on clicks and save you time. Scan more of your data, including encrypted data, in more detail with Data Detect. You can also schedule and automate Data Detect scans. Manage your field-level encryption policy, check for encryption blockers, and download field history changes directly in the Shield App. New Profile ID and Role ID fields for all real-time events make it easier to build Transaction Security policies via the Condition Builder.
- **[Security Center](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_security_center.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    New Alert metrics are available to enhance the security posture of your organization.
- **[Other Security Changes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_security_other_changes.htm&release=262.0.0&type=5)**  
    Identify and remove malformed trusted URLs. Use a smaller Content Security Policy (CSP) header size to reduce failures when other sites serve content from your org.