The Seer
THE BIG PICTURE
6 Tips to Optimize Your Salesforce Data Recovery Plan
5 Ways Salesforce Field Audit Trail Falls Short
In 2024, 30.2% of businesses experienced data loss, up from 17.2% in 2023. A well-planned Salesforce data recovery plan gives organizations the tools and guidance they need to quickly return to operations after a data outage and avoid costly downtime.
There are far too many potential sources of data loss to completely guard against all of them. Those who fail to plan for worst-case scenarios are setting themselves up for loss of consumer trust, compliance failures, and massive amounts of lost money.
Salesforce Field Audit Trail solves a real problem: preserving a record of how important data changes over time. It extends native Field History Tracking, allows organizations to retain historical field data until it is deliberately deleted, and provides a record of who changed tracked fields, what changed, and when.
That matters. But an audit trail is not the same thing as a complete security, compliance, and resilience strategy.
The distinction is becoming more important as Salesforce environments grow more complex and the consequences of weak controls increase. According to IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.99 million.
Industry Pulse
How AutoRABIT + nCino Help Banks Drive Salesforce Digital Transformation
How Salesforce Data Retention Policy Gaps Create Compliance Risk
Banks looking to streamline processes and increase the value they offer their customers will see huge benefits from combining the power of AutoRABIT and nCino on Salesforce. Banking customers expect state-of-the-art software and mobile capabilities.
Any bank that doesn’t offer these capabilities will fall behind their competition. The financial services industry is among the most frequent targets for cybercriminals. Having a constantly updated data security approach is critical to properly protecting sensitive data.
Salesforce environments accumulate data quickly. Customer records, support histories, financial information, employee data, files, activity records, integration data, and metadata can remain in an org long after their original purpose has changed.
That creates a compliance challenge. Organizations need to know why data is being retained, how long it should remain available, where additional copies exist, and what happens when the retention period expires.
Without clear answers, retention policies can become inconsistent across production environments, backups, sandboxes, archives, and connected systems. The result is greater exposure to privacy, legal, security, and regulatory risk.
Expert Voices
Salesforce AppSec: A Comprehensive Guide to Key Application Security Acronyms
AutoRABIT Announces Acquisition of Integral Zone to Expand MuleSoft Governance and DevSecOps Visibility
In the realm of application security, many industry experts often refer to acronyms and as a developer, decoding these acronyms is crucial, as they represent key facets of safeguarding your applications.
In this guide, we’ll unravel the top 7 application security acronyms, offering not just their definitions but also insights into how code scanning tools address potential vulnerabilities, along with a glimpse into real-world examples of potential hacks.
Modern Salesforce delivery extends far beyond the platform itself. MuleSoft integrations now sit at the center of how enterprises connect systems, data, and workflows across the business, yet these environments often remain difficult to govern, review, and standardize at scale.
AutoRABIT announced the acquisition of Integral Zone, a MuleSoft-focused solution designed to help organizations improve project quality, reduce manual review effort, and strengthen governance across integration environments.
Together, the companies aim to help enterprise teams gain better visibility, improve consistency, and move faster with greater confidence across Salesforce and the systems connected to it.
Beyond the Buzz
How Do Salesforce Deployment Tools Expedite Release Cycles?
How to Evaluate Static Code Analysis Tools for Salesforce Teams
Human error is continuously labeled as the leading cause of data loss. Salesforce deployment tools reduce the potential for human error by automating critical quality and security processes in the DevOps lifecycle.
A streamlined release cycle enables organizations to be more flexible and agile in their responses to software needs. Eliminating errors and automating time-consuming manual processes enable faster delivery of features and updates.
Salesforce development is getting faster. The risk surrounding it is growing just as quickly.
More teams are adopting automated pipelines, expanding customization, connecting Salesforce to critical enterprise systems, and using AI to generate or modify code. Every efficiency gain increases the volume of change that organizations need to validate before it reaches production.
That makes static code analysis more than a developer productivity tool. It is becoming an important control for maintaining security, reliability, and governance at scale.
