Salesforce has launched  Missionforce , a new portfolio of products tailored to strengthen the company’s commitment to the national security sector. GovCloud CEO  Kendall Collins , who announced the development on LinkedIn Tuesday, attended the Washington, D.C., launch of the new business unit with Salesforce CEO  Marc Benioff . https://www.executivebiz.com/articles/salesforce-missionforce-national-security

Big changes are coming to Salesforce Data Cloud , and it’s not just about pricing. Salesforce is also rolling out significant updates to permission sets to simplify user management and better align with different roles. Salesforce is now offering zero-cost data ingestion for structured data coming from its own internal clouds, including CRM, Marketing Cloud Engagement, Marketing Cloud Personalization, and Commerce Cloud. This means the initial ingestion of this crucial data

The specter of artificial intelligence is looming over the tech industry that created it. Companies are unabashedly using chatbots to write code , to answer customers’ questions and to make ads . For worried workers, the threat of AI replacement is no longer theoretical. Salesforce is at the front of this shift, with CEO Marc Benioff peddling his “ Agentforce ” AI tool and recently touting an AI-driven cut of 4,000 “heads” from his customer support ranks. But this didn’t en

Salesforce has launched a new part of its business — known as Missionforce — to focus particularly on responding to the needs of defense, intelligence and aerospace agencies, the company announced Tuesday. “It's a product portfolio, and it's a business unit that Salesforce has created and established to deepen our focus here,” Kendall Collins, who has been appointed CEO of Government Cloud, including Missionforce, told Nextgov/FCW. “Today, we have a number of things that we d

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and Salesforce , the world’s #1 AI CRM, today announced a new strategic partnership to enhance the security of AI agents and applications built on Agentforce and the Salesforce Platform . Through integrations between CrowdStrike Falcon® Shield and Salesforce Security Center , Salesforce admins and security professionals will gain enhanced visibility, compliance support, and protection for mission-critical workflows – simplifying operations and un

The US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has put out a warning that cybercriminal groups have been targeting organizations’ Salesforce platforms. In the alert , the FBI warned of increased data theft and extortion intrusions from two specific groups. One of those groups is behind the recent Salesloft attack that opened a backdoor into Salesforce. Hackers exploited compromised OAuth tokens for the Salesloft Drift application, an AI chatbot that can be integrated with Sal

Salesforce is increasing its focus on national security. The customer relationship management giant announced the creation of a new business unit called Missionforce on Tuesday. It will be focused on incorporating AI into defense workflows in three main areas: personnel, logistics, and decision-making, according to a company press release.  https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/salesforce-launches-missionforce-a-national-security-focused-business-unit/

Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies is the latest company in the crosshairs of Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s increasingly outspoken CEO. Benioff thinks Palantir’s software is overpriced, he told CNBC at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco last week. https://www.cxtoday.com/crm/salesforce-ceo-calls-out-palantir-as-the-most-expensive-enterprise-software-ive-ever-seen/

The FBI warned that two threat actors are targeting Salesforce customers for opportunities to steal data from and extort them. The advisory, published Friday, comes courtesy of the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and concerns two threat actors: UNC6040 (also known as ShinyHunters) and UNC6395. UNC6040 is a threat actor that specializes in voice phishing or vishing and recently was observed using social engineering to pose as IT support staff to get into Salesforc

The FBI on Friday released an alert warning that two hacker groups have been targeting Salesforce instances for extortion and data theft.  The groups, identified as UNC6040 and UNC6395, have been identified in recent attacks using different methods of gaining initial access, according to the FBI. The alert includes indicators of compromise and additional guidance that can help security teams determine if they have been targeted and prevent future attacks.  https://www.cybers