The Seer
THE BIG PICTURE
6 Tips to Optimize Your Salesforce Data Recovery Plan
6 Ways Security Debt Becomes Business Debt
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.
Every organization carries some level of security debt: the accumulation of unaddressed risks, vulnerabilities, and outdated controls that pile up over time.
Like financial debt, it’s easy to ignore when business is good and systems are stable. But the longer it lingers, the more expensive it becomes. The “interest” on this debt compounds through downtime, fines, and lost trust, until the balance comes due in the form of a breach or disruption.
Security debt isn’t a technical issue alone. It’s a business liability that erodes efficiency, damages reputation, and constrains growth.
Industry Pulse
How AutoRABIT + nCino Help Banks Drive Salesforce Digital Transformation
How Code Quality Failures Become Compliance Failures
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.
Security incidents rarely start with a Bond-villain zero-day catastrophe. More often, they begin as something smaller and entirely preventable: a rushed pull request, a misconfigured permission set, a patch deferred until “after the release.”
In Salesforce—where business logic, data access, and integrations converge—those everyday code quality shortcuts have a direct line to data exposure and, ultimately, compliance violations. The result isn’t just technical risk; it’s regulatory risk measured in investigations, fines, and lost trust. The takeaway is simple: if you want to stay compliant, you must treat code quality as a first-class control.
We’ll explore these seven ways code quality impacts regulatory compliance:
Expert Voices
Salesforce AppSec: A Comprehensive Guide to Key Application Security Acronyms
The Agentic Enterprise Arrives: Inside Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2025 Announcements
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.
Dreamforce isn’t just another product showcase. It consistently marks a shift in Salesforce identity. This year’s theme, centered around the “Agentic Enterprise,” redefined what it means to integrate AI into business systems.
Instead of copilots and assistants, Salesforce introduced agents—autonomous systems capable of action, orchestration, and decision-making across the enterprise.
Let’s break down the major announcements from Dreamforce 2025 and explore what they mean for the future of enterprise automation and CRM.
Beyond the Buzz
How Do Salesforce Deployment Tools Expedite Release Cycles?
Why Release Management Errors Disrupt Business—and How to Eliminate Them
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.
In today’s fast-moving business landscape, Salesforce is far more than a CRM; it’s often the digital backbone for sales, service, marketing, revenue operations, and more.
A flawed release—whether a hidden bug, a misconfiguration, or a downtime event—can ripple through sales pipelines, customer journeys, revenue recognition, support operations, and compliance. One misplaced change can break automation flows, trigger data loss, or degrade system performance, resulting in lost deals, dissatisfied customers, or even regulatory risk.
In fact, teams that adopt unified, automated pipelines are proven to deploy 127 times faster, ship 182 times more often, experience 8 times fewer outages, and recover from incidents 2,293 times faster compared to manual, siloed processes. That kind of delta underscores why release errors aren’t just technical nuisances—they’re business vulnerabilities.
