Salesforce Launched AI Agents For Enhancing Salesforce Security Operations
Salesforce, a global leader in customer relationship management (CRM), is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) in a powerful new way to enhance its cybersecurity operations. The company has deployed AI agents through its internal digital labor platform, Agentforce, to support and augment its security teams. These AI agents are not only streamlining workflows but also significantly increasing productivity by handling repetitive tasks, accelerating response times, and allowing human experts to focus on higher-value, strategic initiatives.
Why AI Agents Matter in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity teams often face overwhelming workloads, with much of their time consumed by manual and repetitive tasks such as data entry, case triage, document reviews, and response coordination. These tasks, while necessary, limit the capacity of human teams to address more complex security challenges and innovations. Without automation, organizations risk inefficiencies, slower response times, and ultimately a weakened security posture.
To address this, Salesforce is turning to Agentforce to act as a force multiplier for its security teams. The results have been promising: reduced turnaround times, reclaimed work hours, and improved operational focus. AI agents now play a key role in areas like incident response, customer inquiry handling, and third-party risk assessments.
A Culture of Trust Drives Innovation
According to Brad Arkin, Chief Trust Officer at Salesforce, the company’s top value—trust—is at the heart of its approach to security and compliance. For Arkin, maintaining trust means not only protecting customer data but also constantly improving how Salesforce’s security systems operate. AI agents, he explains, are instrumental in helping achieve that goal by optimizing security workflows and ensuring timely, accurate responses.
How Agentforce Is Transforming Security Tasks
Faster Incident Detection and Response
Previously, when an incident occurred, response team members had to manually gather context by reading notes, scheduling meetings, and chasing down information from various systems. This was time-consuming and often delayed critical next steps.
With Agentforce, teams now receive automatic triage recommendations based on enriched case descriptions. The AI agents can also provide real-time status updates on incidents, summarizing events and progress in seconds.
Arkin reports that Agentforce has processed more than 44,000 prompts, saving the security team over 3,000 hours of work—equivalent to nearly 1.5 years of full-time labor. This reclaimed time allows the team to focus on evaluating incident quality and improving overall response strategy.
Efficient Customer Inquiry Handling
In the past, answering these queries required manual reviews of over 450 compliance documents, making the process both labor-intensive and slow.
AI agents quickly cross-reference the latest service-specific documentation to provide precise, up-to-date responses. This enables customer-facing representatives to reply with confidence and speed, enhancing both internal efficiency and customer trust.
Smarter Third-Party Risk Assessments
Third-party security is another critical area that has seen major improvements thanks to Agentforce. The Third Party Security (TPS) Engineering team created a specialized Agentforce “skill” to pre-assess supplier technology questionnaires.
Once the initial assessments are completed, TPS engineers step in to review findings and investigate areas that require further attention. This approach saves approximately 30% of engineers’ time, allowing them to focus on more complex and high-priority supplier issues.
According to Arkin, this improvement positively impacts between 300 to 500 employees each month by ensuring faster and more consistent third-party evaluations.
Looking Ahead: Expanding AI Agent Use Cases
Salesforce is not stopping here. The company continues to identify and pilot new ways to deploy AI agents across its security functions. From expanding their role in compliance monitoring to developing proactive risk detection tools, the vision is to build a more agile, scalable, and resilient security ecosystem powered by intelligent automation.
The use of AI agents reflects Salesforce’s broader commitment to innovation in cybersecurity. By integrating advanced digital labor into its operations, Salesforce is setting a standard for how technology can be used not just to protect data, but to empower people.
Conclusion
Security threats are more frequent and complex than ever. To stay ahead, companies must be willing to embrace intelligent solutions that enhance human capabilities. Salesforce’s use of AI agents through Agentforce is a clear example of how automation can lead to measurable improvements in security performance, employee productivity, and customer confidence.
As Arkin emphasizes, trust is built not just on protection, but on proactive innovation. And with AI agents on the front lines, Salesforce is making sure its security teams are ready for whatever comes next.
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