The Seer
THE BIG PICTURE
6 Tips to Optimize Your Salesforce Data Recovery Plan
5 Salesforce Security Gaps That Go Unnoticed Until It’s Too Late
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 drives revenue, customer engagement, and critical operations. But while organizations spend heavily to secure networks, endpoints, and cloud infrastructure, Salesforce often exists in a blind spot.
Misconfigurations, overlooked permissions, and unchecked integrations accumulate quietly until they create a breach large enough to disrupt business continuity, drain revenue, or erode customer trust.
Security in Salesforce is deceptively complex. The shared responsibility model places much of the burden on the customer, yet too many teams assume the platform itself is inherently secure. This gap between assumption and reality is where risk thrives.
Industry Pulse
How AutoRABIT + nCino Help Banks Drive Salesforce Digital Transformation
6 Tips for Building Business Continuity Into Salesforce DevOps
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.
Business continuity used to mean having a binder on a shelf for when something went wrong. But in today’s digital economy, continuity is no longer a contingency plan. It’s a requirement baked into everyday operations. For organizations that depend on Salesforce, this truth is magnified. Salesforce houses customer data, revenue pipelines, service processes, and compliance-critical records. A disruption in Salesforce doesn’t just slow down IT—it reverberates through sales, marketing, support, and finance.
Yet many DevOps pipelines supporting Salesforce remain optimized for speed at the expense of resilience. Deployments are measured in terms of velocity, not reliability. Testing often prioritizes features, not failure modes. And backup strategies are frequently manual or inconsistent.
The result? Even minor disruptions can become costly business events. According to IDC, unplanned application downtime costs large enterprises an average of $1.25–$2.5 billion per year. For Salesforce-driven organizations, where customer engagement is the lifeblood of business, those costs are amplified by reputational damage and lost trust.
Expert Voices
Salesforce AppSec: A Comprehensive Guide to Key Application Security Acronyms
Agentforce Vibes: What It Is, Why It’s Here, and Why You Need Guardrails
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.
“Vibe coding” allows developers to describe what they want and watch code materialize in real time. Salesforce is hoping their new Agentforce Vibes will mark a turning point in enterprise development.
The potential is enormous. Anyone in the Salesforce ecosystem, developer or not, can accelerate innovation. But the risks are equally significant. When AI writes your code, who ensures it’s secure, compliant, and maintainable?
Agentforce Vibes changes how we build. CodeScan and Guard ensure that transformation doesn’t outpace the governance that keeps enterprises safe.
Beyond the Buzz
How Do Salesforce Deployment Tools Expedite Release Cycles?
Salesforce DevOps Without the Drag: Building a Unified, Automated Ecosystem
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.
Organizations race to deliver new digital experiences, but velocity without control invites risk. Salesforce environments, with their intricate customizations and business-critical data, amplify that tension. Too often, DevOps is approached piecemeal: multiple tools stitched together, manual processes lingering in the background, and security safeguards bolted on after the fact. The result is friction, exposure, and mounting costs.
A unified, automated Salesforce DevOps ecosystem changes the equation. It’s not about moving faster at all costs. It’s about moving faster with discipline, reducing drag while embedding resilience into every release.
We’ll explore these seven aspects of an optimized DevOps ecosystem:
