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Difficulty: HardUser Management and Provisioning

A Salesforce Administrator at a cloud security enterprise needs to provision access for a newly hired internal audit team. The audit team members require standard platform permissions. However, corporate compliance mandates that these specific users must be strictly prohibited from logging into Salesforce when working outside the corporate network range (203.0.113.0/24203.0.113.0/24). Attempting to log in from an unauthorized IP address must result in immediate access denial rather than triggering an identity verification challenge. Which configuration should the administrator implement to meet these requirements?

  1. A
    Add the corporate IP range to the Network Access settings under Organization-Wide Security Settings.
  2. Configure the allowed login IP ranges directly on the profile assigned to the internal audit team members.Answer
  3. C
    Create a Permission Set defining the allowed IP range restrictions and assign it to each audit team member.
  4. D
    Freeze the internal audit user accounts whenever they leave the corporate network to prevent off-site authentication.

Answer

Configure the allowed login IP ranges directly on the profile assigned to the internal audit team members.
Configuring Login IP Ranges at the Profile level strictly enforces location-based login controls. If a user assigned to that profile attempts to authenticate from an IP address outside the configured range, Salesforce denies access immediately without issuing an identity verification challenge.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the security requirement.
The requirement specifies blocking login access entirely when users are outside a designated IP range (203.0.113.0/24203.0.113.0/24), rather than prompting for multi-factor/identity verification.
Salesforce provides two distinct mechanisms for handling IP restrictions: Organization-Wide Network Access and Profile Login IP Ranges.
2
Evaluate Profile-level vs. Org-level IP settings.
Organization-wide Network Access defines trusted IP ranges where activation challenges are skipped, but allows logins from elsewhere after verification. Profile Login IP Ranges strictly restrict access, denying login completely if the user's IP is outside the specified range.
Profile-level IP restrictions directly satisfy the requirement to prohibit login attempts outside the corporate range.
3
Determine the proper administrative implementation.
Navigate to the custom profile assigned to the audit team and add the range 203.0.113.0203.0.113.0 to 203.0.113.255203.0.113.255 under the Login IP Ranges related list.
Login restrictions (IP ranges and Login Hours) are enforced on Profiles and cannot be applied via Permission Sets.

Key Concept

Profile Login IP Ranges vs. Network Access IP Ranges
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