Welcome to Security Decoded—your bonus mini series, and our little thank-you for being a founding subscriber of Well Built Premium 🦄

Over the next three days, you're getting the Workday security foundation we wish someone had handed each of us on day one.

No fluff, no jargon spirals.

Just the stuff that matters—explained how we’d explain it to a someone totally new to Workday over coffee 😊☕️

Let's dive in.

Workday is both a system of record and system of action.

It houses your users Personally Identifiable Information (PII) like social security numbers, home addresses, birth dates. It records your compensation data, financial transactions, and benefit data—and it gives users the ability to change all of it.

That's an extraordinary amount of power sitting in one platform 😳

So the question becomes: how do you make sure the right people can see and do what they need to—without accidentally handing the keys to the whole castle?

That's what Workday security is for.

When you're setting up security in Workday, you're really just answering three questions: