The Seer
THE BIG PICTURE
6 Tips to Optimize Your Salesforce Data Recovery Plan
6 Salesforce Cybersecurity Gaps in Your System Right Now
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 is no longer a single application. It is a living environment of users, permissions, customer records, integrations, workflows, code, metadata, APIs, sandboxes, and increasingly, AI-generated outputs. That flexibility is exactly what makes Salesforce so valuable. It is also what makes it difficult to secure with point-in-time reviews and disconnected controls.
The risk is not always obvious. Most Salesforce cybersecurity gaps do not announce themselves as urgent problems. They accumulate quietly through small decisions: a permission set granted for a project, a connected app approved for convenience, a field left unclassified, a deployment rushed into production, a sandbox refreshed without proper controls.
For Salesforce teams, the message is clear: security gaps rarely exist in isolation. They sit across the platform, connect to each other, and compound over time.
Industry Pulse
How AutoRABIT + nCino Help Banks Drive Salesforce Digital Transformation
Why Healthcare Teams Need Salesforce Data Masking to Protect PHI
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.
Healthcare organizations run on trust. Every patient intake, care coordination workflow, claims process, provider communication, and support interaction depends on sensitive information moving quickly through connected systems. Salesforce often sits at the center of that activity, bringing teams together around a shared view of the patient, member, provider, or case.
That visibility is powerful. It is also risky.
Protected health information does not lose its sensitivity when it moves outside production. Once copied into a sandbox, exported into a test environment, exposed in a report, or used for development, PHI still carries the same consequences if mishandled. For healthcare teams using Salesforce, data masking is no longer a technical convenience. It is a security control that helps protect patients, reduce operational exposure, and preserve the speed of innovation.
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?
Why Salesforce Agentforce Security Can’t Be an Afterthought
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.
AI agents are no longer passive assistants. In Salesforce, Agentforce can retrieve data, interpret context, answer questions, trigger workflows, and take action across business-critical systems. That creates real productivity gains. It also introduces a new class of risk.
Traditional applications follow defined logic. AI agents make decisions based on prompts, permissions, connected data, and available actions. That means security cannot be handled after deployment. It has to shape what the agent can access, what it can do, when it needs approval, and how its behavior is monitored.
Salesforce Agentforce security is not just an AI concern. It is an identity, permissions, data governance, code quality, and operational resilience concern. Once an agent can reach sensitive Salesforce data or execute privileged actions, it becomes part of the enterprise control plane. That requires discipline from the start.
