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Heroku Security, Privacy, and Compliance

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Shared responsibility model

Audits and Certifications

Heroku Security Features

More Information

When you build and operate a mission critical application on Heroku, you are entrusting Salesforce with critical
and sensitive data about your business and about your customers. Nothing is more important to us than
protecting the privacy of your data and that is why Trust is our number one value.

Shared responsibility model

It takes a team to keep your data safe. Your Heroku applications are stored and executed in a collection of
systems operated by a team of people at Heroku. It is Salesforce’s responsibility to architect these systems for
optimal security and to implement and enforce effective practices and processes for how our team accesses
and operates the systems. Salesforce is also responsible for auditing our vendors to verify their security
controls and ensuring that our use of vendor services meet our security standards. Salesforce regularly
performs audits and maintains certifications to verify the security of our systems and processes.

As a Heroku customer you are part of the team that keeps your apps safe. You are responsible for implementing
strong security measures in your applications and for properly managing access to your Heroku account and
resources. Heroku offers a number of security features to help you with this responsibility.

Audits and Certifications

Heroku regularly performs audits and maintains a number of certifications to further strengthen our trust with
customers and to enable Heroku customers to build certified applications on the platform. The detailed list of
audits and certifications is maintained in the Security Privacy and Architecture (“SPARC”) document
(https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=Heroku-Trust-and-Compliance-
Documentation&language=en_US&type=1) for Heroku which is part of the Heroku Enterprise Master
Subscription Agreement. These include:

PCI

Salesforce has an Attestation of Compliance as a PCI Level 1 Service Provider covering Heroku Shield Services
offered as part of Heroku Enterprise. Please contact us at heroku-pci@salesforce.com (mailto:heroku-
pci@salesforce.com) to receive more information about Heroku’s PCI certification.

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HIPAA

Customers who want to build healthcare applications on Heroku that comply with US HIPAA can contact the
Heroku sales team (https://www.heroku.com/form/contact-sales) regarding a Business Associate Addendum
to the Master Subscription Agreement that is required for HIPAA compliance.

GDPR

Please see the GDPR Dev Center article (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/gdpr) for details on how EU
General Data Protection Regulation is relevant for apps on Heroku.

ISO 27001, 27017, and 27018 Certification

Salesforce has been certified against this set of widely recognized and internationally accepted information
security standards that specifies security management best practices and comprehensive security controls
following ISO 27002. These certifications also cover information security specific to the cloud the protection of
Personally Identifiable Information (PII). For more information, please log a support ticket
(https://help.heroku.com).

SOC2 Type I Attestation Report

Salesforce has been issued a SOC2 Type I report by an independent auditor. This audit includes the
examination of the fairness of presentation and the suitability of the design of controls relevant to security,
availability, and confidentiality of the information processed by the Heroku Platform. For more information,
please log a support ticket (https://help.heroku.com).

Heroku Security Features

Heroku has a number of basic and advanced features that help you keep your application secure.

Basic features

Heroku offers basic security features on Personal and Team accounts, including:

Account-level 2-factor authentication (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/two-factor-authentication)

(also available on the free tier)

Transport security via TLS/SSL (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ssl) and Automated Certificate

Management (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/automated-certificate-management)

Team (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-teams) and basic role-based access

(https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-teams#managing-permissions) for users and applications

Postgres logical and physical backups (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-data-

safety-and-continuous-protection) and rollback (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-
rollback) (also available on the free tier)

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Advanced features

Additional features are available for Enterprise and Premium tier users, such as:

More refined access control and roles in Heroku Enterprise

(https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-enterprise)

Single sign-on (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/sso-for-heroku) (SSO) integrated with your

organization’s SAML Identity Provider.

Postgres encryption at rest (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-production-tier-

technical-characterization#data-encryption) on Standard, Premium, Private and Shield plans

Secure transport (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-connect#security) of Salesforce data to

Heroku Postgres via Heroku Connect (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-connect)

Network level isolation and access control based on source IP for apps running in Private Spaces
(https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/private-spaces)

Geographic isolation (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/regions) of applications and databases

running in Private Spaces (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/private-spaces)

Isolated and space-enforced log collection (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/private-space-logging)

in Shield Private Spaces (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/private-spaces#shield-private-spaces)

Stricter TLS requirements for Heroku apps receiving HTTPS requests in Shield Private Spaces
(https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/private-spaces#shield-private-spaces)

Keystroke logging when running interactive heroku run sessions in Shield Private Spaces
(https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/private-spaces#shield-private-spaces)

More Information
Heroku Enterprise customers are encouraged to contact the Customer Solutions Architects team who can
provide guidance for how to best implement security measures and how to govern application deployment on
Heroku.

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