LinkedIn to CRM Extensions: A Security Checklist (2026)
Browser extensions that copy LinkedIn profiles and conversations into a CRM are now standard in most sales teams. They are useful, and they are also a data security decision that usually never reaches the security team. Each one runs inside the rep's authenticated browser session, reads personal data from LinkedIn, and moves it into a second system under the rep's own credentials. This article sets out the questions a security or IT function should ask before allowing one, and how the common tools answer them.