Profiles and Permission Sets determine what the Users in your Salesforce Org can see and do. Permissions must be managed carefully in order to ensure that Users can do their job effectively and that Org security is maintained. Salesforce is introducing exciting new technology in the Spring 48.0 release that will revolutionize how an Admin can organize the permissions in their Org. Permission Set Groups will allow Permission Sets to be grouped together and assigned to Users. This technology promises to reduce the dependence on Profiles and provide greater clarity and agility for all permission assignments. This blog covers the best practices for transitioning away from Profiles, adopting Permission Set Groups, and reporting on user permission assignments for better security and compliance.
The Problem with Profiles
In the early days of Salesforce, the only way to control User permissions was with the Profile object. Profiles are complex bundles of permissions. Every User could
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