Secure, Private, and Trustworthy: Enterprise Cloud Computing With Force.com

An ever-growing list of enterprises trusts the Force.com cloud computing platform to deliver critical business applications, in large part because of salesforce.com commitment to security and privacy. This paper first explains the terms security, privacy, and trust, and then explores the basic requirements for secure cloud computing. Subsequent sections of this paper provide a comprehensive introduction to the inherent security and privacy features of the Force.com enterprise cloud computing platform as well as platform features application providers can in turn use to build and secure their applications and customer data.