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Salesforce Just Confessed That Composable is Hard
Earlier this year, Salesforce acquired Contentful. If you've been following this blog, you know what I think that means: a bet on Composable content architecture, and a signal that the structured-content-as-infrastructure era is here for enterprise buyers who are ready to do the work.
Salesforce's 2026 Security Changes: What's Actually Happening, What It Means, and Why It's Hitting Consulting Partners Hardest
Between April and July 2026, Salesforce is pushing the biggest wave of security changes in years, mandatory MFA, phishing-resistant MFA for admins, report step-up, auto-containment compressed into twelve weeks. The destination is right; the rollout has been managed poorly. Both are true. This is our full reference: what's changing and when, why phishing resistance is really about identity binding, why that hits consulting partners hardest, the synced-passkey question, the displacement risk nobody's naming, and concrete paths forward for firms and admins.