Introducing Organization-Wide Defaults

When dealing with record-level access settings, the first thing we need to do is to determine the organization-wide defaults (commonly called “org-wide defaults”) for each object in our Recruiting app. Also called a sharing model, org-wide defaults specify the baseline level of access that the most restricted user should have. We'll use org-wide defaults to lock down our data to this most restrictive level, and then we'll use our other record-level security and sharing tools (role hierarchies, sharing rules, and manual sharing) to open up the data to other users who need to access it.