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
Data Drift and Integrity Gaps in Regulated CI/CD Pipelines
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.
In the world of Salesforce DevOps, stability is both a mandate and a moving target for regulated industries. Teams often face silent threats despite robust controls: configuration entropy, unexpected sandbox divergence, or test results that don’t match production behavior. These are symptoms of data drift and integrity gaps—two invisible forces that quietly corrode trust in CI/CD pipelines.
If left unchecked, these issues don’t just derail releases. They compromise compliance posture and operational integrity. In regulated industries, where every deployment must be defensible and every environment must be auditable, there’s no room for misalignment.
We’ll explore what these considerations are and what you can do to protect your data:
Expert Voices
Salesforce AppSec: A Comprehensive Guide to Key Application Security Acronyms
The Hidden Risks of Vibe Coding and Why Guardrails Are Essential
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.
AI-assisted coding tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are reshaping software development. Entire classes, Lightning components, and metadata definitions can now be produced in seconds. The appeal is undeniable: accelerated delivery and reduced development overhead.
Yet this speed comes with significant risk. AI generates code that is syntactically correct but contextually blind. It does not understand Salesforce governor limits. It does not enforce CRUD/FLS security models. It does not evaluate the risk of permissive metadata settings.
In a platform as business-critical as Salesforce—where application logic, metadata, and org-level configurations all interact—this creates vulnerabilities with far-reaching consequences.
Beyond the Buzz
How Do Salesforce Deployment Tools Expedite Release Cycles?
Why Incident Response Is Not a Substitute for Prevention
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 spend heavily on incident response. They build playbooks, run simulations, and designate response teams. These steps are critical, but they’re only one piece of the puzzle.
If prevention is overlooked, incident response becomes an expensive crutch. Every minute of downtime costs money. Every compliance failure chips away at credibility. And every preventable breach adds fuel to competitors’ claims that your business can’t be trusted.
We’ll examine why prevention must come first, how it reduces long-term costs, and why a balanced approach still demands strong incident response capabilities.
