The Seer
THE BIG PICTURE
6 Tips to Optimize Your Salesforce Data Recovery Plan
Top 5 Salesforce Backup and Recovery Features in 2026
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 now sits at the center of revenue operations, customer experience, and regulated business processes. When that system fails—whether through human error, malicious activity, or cascading misconfiguration—the impact isn’t limited to IT. It shows up in missed revenue, compliance exposure, and loss of trust.
At the same time, cloud risk has become quieter and more persistent. Credential-based attacks are happening at industrial scale. Microsoft reports blocking roughly 7,000 password attacks per second across its cloud ecosystem, underscoring how frequently access—not infrastructure—is the point of failure.
Salesforce backup is no longer about whether data exists somewhere “just in case.” It’s about whether recovery itself is safe, fast, and controlled under pressure.
Industry Pulse
How AutoRABIT + nCino Help Banks Drive Salesforce Digital Transformation
The True Cost for Banks of Noncompliance in Salesforce
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 has become a strategic engine for modern banking. It drives customer engagement, loan operations, onboarding, servicing, and increasingly the workflows that shape risk decisions and client experience. With that centrality comes a new reality: the platform now holds regulated data once confined to core systems. When controls in Salesforce slip, the consequences aren’t limited to technical cleanup. The impact lands on balance sheets, reputations, and regulatory relationships.
Noncompliance in Salesforce is rarely the result of a single misstep. It emerges from incremental gaps: overly broad permissions, unmonitored integrations, untracked data flows, and patchwork retention policies. In an environment where regulators view cloud platforms as extensions of the bank’s infrastructure, those gaps carry real costs. Understanding those costs—and how they compound—is now a strategic priority.
These seven factors illustrate the true costs banks face when their Salesforce data falls out of compliance with regulations:
Expert Voices
Salesforce AppSec: A Comprehensive Guide to Key Application Security Acronyms
Securing Salesforce for the Public Sector: CodeScan and Guard Achieve FedRAMP® Moderate Authorization to Operate
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.
Salesforce has become an essential platform for government and regulated industries, empowering agencies to deliver services, manage sensitive citizen data, and modernize digital operations. But with that opportunity comes risk. Salesforce is sprawling, highly customizable, and often underserved by generic security tools. Misconfigurations, permission sprawl, and insecure code can easily slip through, creating vulnerabilities that threaten mission readiness and compliance.
For public sector leaders, the challenge is clear: they need security solutions that are both Salesforce- specific and government-grade.
That’s why we’re proud to announce that AutoRABIT CodeScan and AutoRABIT Guard have achieved a FedRAMP Moderate Authorization to Operate (ATO).
Beyond the Buzz
How Do Salesforce Deployment Tools Expedite Release Cycles?
Piecemeal Tools Fail. A Full Salesforce DevOps Platform Scales.
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 isn’t your typical program. It’s evolved into mission-critical infrastructure. It runs revenue operations, customer data, regulated workflows, and increasingly complex custom code. Yet many organizations still manage Salesforce DevSecOps the same way they always have: by acquiring tools reactively, one problem at a time.
A deployment tool is added after a failed release. A security scanner follows an audit finding. A backup solution arrives after an outage. Each decision makes sense in isolation. Together, they quietly increase complexity.
Over time, teams don’t just accumulate tools. They inherit fragmentation. And fragmentation is where risk takes hold.
