The Seer
THE BIG PICTURE
6 Tips to Optimize Your Salesforce Data Recovery Plan
6 Reasons Salesforce Static Code Analysis Is a Security Control
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 applications increasingly support customer data, revenue operations, financial processes, service delivery, and other business-critical functions. That makes the code extending the platform part of the organization’s security boundary.
Static code analysis examines source code for security weaknesses, coding errors, and risky patterns without executing the application. It gives teams a repeatable way to evaluate every change before that change becomes part of the production attack surface.
This is why static code analysis should not be treated as a developer convenience or a quality improvement tool alone. When implemented correctly, it becomes an enforceable security control across the Salesforce development lifecycle.
Industry Pulse
How AutoRABIT + nCino Help Banks Drive Salesforce Digital Transformation
Why “Set It and Forget It” GDPR Compliance Fails 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.
A Salesforce environment rarely falls out of compliance all at once.
It happens through small, ordinary changes. A permission set gets expanded to solve an urgent access issue. A new field is added to support a reporting request. An integration starts moving customer data into another system. A sandbox is refreshed with production data. A workflow is updated, a user role changes, a report gets shared more broadly than intended.
None of these changes may seem risky on their own. Together, they can quietly weaken the controls GDPR compliance depends on.
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?
How Salesforce User Management Breaks Down in Complex Orgs
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 user management often begins as a straightforward administrative process. A new employee joins, receives a profile, gains a few permission sets, and starts working. When responsibilities change, access is adjusted. When the employee leaves, the account is deactivated.
That model works until the organization becomes more complex.
As Salesforce expands across business units, geographies, acquired companies, external partners, applications, and integrations, access decisions begin accumulating faster than teams can evaluate them. Users receive additional permissions for temporary projects. Administrators create new permission sets to solve urgent requests. Regional teams interpret corporate policies differently. Integrations retain access long after their original purpose changes.
