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AO Labs is the research group within AppOmni. We deliver unbiased information and education to help security practitioners improve SaaS security.
Written by security researchers and engineers, our in-depth research is intended to educate and provide actionable information to mitigate risk. AO Labs focuses its efforts on the most business-critical SaaS platforms.
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Avoid SFDC Vulnerabilities When Building Custom Lightning Components in Apex
This is a follow up to an article and blog post AppOmni Offensive Security Engineer Aaron Costello wrote in October 2020. This article discusses some of the most common security issues and...






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Third-Party Risk In Salesforce Named Credentials
This article provides an overview of Named Credentials, a feature introduced by Salesforce in the Spring ’15 release to combat the issue of hardcoded credentials within an organization’s Apex codebase.






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Understanding Salesforce Flows & Common Security Risks
This article discusses the security nuances unique to Salesforce Flow development as well as permission management pitfalls. Aaron Costello also shares how organizations can combat those pitfalls.






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Salesforce Lightning Components: A Treatise On Apex Security
This article describes the architecture of Lightning Aura components, how a call to an Apex method with parameters crafted from nothing but the provided Javascript signature, and security...






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Salesforce Guest User
Log Analysis
Salesforce has two primary avenues for obtaining event data from a Salesforce org: Event Monitoring and Real-Time Event Monitoring. Discussing the specific differences between these...
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