A well-prepared disaster recovery plan (DRP), leveraging near real-time backups*, automated recovery, and comprehensive data replication, can be the difference between a temporary disruption and a long-term disaster. Check out how these essential components work together to minimize downtime and keep businesses resilient during a Salesforce data breach.
*Note: near-real time means within 3 minutes of real-time to allow a buffer for Salesforce commit latency.”
Downtime is More Dangerous Than You Think
When people think about Salesforce data breaches, they often focus on the security implications — stolen data, privacy violations, and regulatory penalties. However, downtime is an equally dangerous consequence, especially for Salesforce.
What Does Downtime Mean for Your Business?
- Customer trust: A significant outage can make customers question your reliability. In industries like financial services or healthcare, downtime directly impacts service delivery, eroding trust and potentially driving customers to competitors.
- Revenue loss: Every minute of downtime can cost businesses millions of dollars in lost sales and operational efficiency.
- Compliance risks: For organizations subject to data protection regulations, prolonged downtime can lead to non-compliance with mandatory recovery time objectives (RTOs) and result in hefty fines.
Businesses can only afford extended periods of downtime, which is why the speed and efficiency of disaster recovery solutions are critical. CapStorm’s solutions are designed to mitigate these risks. CapStorm ensures minimal downtime during a breach by delivering near real-time data replication, rapid recovery, and multi-environment protection. With continuous, instant access to data from backups on their own infrastructure, organizations can recover swiftly and maintain business continuity with ease
Near Real-Time Backups Are the Backbone of Data Resilience
Near real-time backups are the cornerstone of disaster recovery. Traditional backup methods — often limited to daily or weekly snapshots — leave businesses vulnerable. When a breach occurs, any data created since the last backup is at risk of being lost. Near real-time backups, on the other hand, ensure that your data is continuously captured, minimizing the risk of data loss.
Why Near Real-Time Backups Matter:
- Minimizes data loss: By continuously capturing and backing up data as it’s created, near-real-time backups ensure that no critical information is lost during a breach.
- Immediate access to data: If a breach occurs, the most recent version of your Salesforce data is readily available for recovery.
- Regulatory compliance: For industries with strict data retention and recovery requirements, near real-time backups, ensure compliance by preserving data with precision.
CapStorm’s solutions offer high-frequency, high-fidelity Salesforce data replication, meaning your data, metadata, and schema is continuously protected and available for immediate recovery. CapStorm’s ability to replicate data in near real-time, as often as every 3 minutes, ensures that when an incident happens, your organization is never far from the most recent version of your Salesforce environment.
An Automated Recovery Is a Faster Recovery
Time is of the essence during a Salesforce data breach. The longer it takes to recover, the greater the impact on your business. Manual recovery processes can be slow, prone to error, and complicated. Automated recovery tools, on the other hand, take the guesswork out of restoring your environment, allowing businesses to recover quickly with minimal effort.
Benefits of Automated Recovery
- Faster recovery: Automated recovery reduces recovery time from hours to minutes, significantly minimizing downtime. CapStorm accelerates recovery times by managing hierarchical Salesforce data models with zero limits on complexity, ensuring that even the most intricate relationships between Salesforce objects are maintained during replication. This eliminates the need to manually rebuild data relationships or worry about missing dependencies during restoration.
- Reduced human error: Automation ensures that data is restored accurately, removing the risks associated with manual recovery processes. CapStorm’s incremental backup capabilities allow for the detection of changes to the Salesforce data model, so the replication and recovery process adapts dynamically, ensuring all new fields or objects are accurately backed up.
- Less disruption: With automated recovery, IT teams can focus on higher-level tasks while the system restores the data. CapStorm’s solutions integrate directly with the organization’s own infrastructure, whether it’s AWS, Snowflake, or other environments. Even during an outage or breach, teams can access critical data from the replicated environments without any manual intervention, allowing near real-time data replication and recovery without interrupting ongoing operations.
CapStorm’s automated recovery capabilities take Salesforce disaster recovery a step further. With CapStorm’s solutions, organizations can set up automated restoration processes to recover lost data quickly and efficiently. This solution automatically restores Salesforce data without manual intervention, ensuring that your operations are back up and running quickly.
Build a Safety Net With Salesforce Data Replication
Data replication is another essential part of minimizing downtime. Even if your primary Salesforce environment is compromised during a breach, data replication ensures that an exact copy of your data is available in an external, secure location, so operations can continue without interruption. Or, if your organization is a victim of ransomware, an offline replica significantly reduces the leverage nefarious actors have to demand a ransom!
Why Salesforce Data Replication is Key
- Off-platform access: Even if your main Salesforce instance is inaccessible, replicated data in a secure external platform can keep your business running.
- Extra security: Storing data in an external location provides an added layer of protection against breaches or system failures.
- Continued analytics: Data replication also enables organizations to perform advanced analytics and reporting on their replicated data, even during a breach, without impacting live systems.
CapStorm’s CS:Enable solution enables comprehensive Salesforce data replication to external platforms like AWS, Azure, or Snowflake. By maintaining a mirror image of your Salesforce data in these secure environments, CapStorm ensures that your critical data remains accessible even if the primary system is compromised.
Salesforce Data Resilience is a Choice, Not a Chance
Data breaches are inevitable, but extended downtime doesn’t have to be. By building a disaster recovery plan that includes near real-time backups, automated recovery, and comprehensive data replication, your organization can reduce the impact of a breach and recover faster than ever.
CapStorm’s solutions empower businesses to be proactive, ensuring that critical Salesforce data is protected, recoverable, and available when it matters most. With the right tools in place, downtime during a data breach can be minimized, allowing your organization to maintain continuity, safeguard customer trust, and meet compliance requirements.
Now is the time to invest in your Salesforce disaster recovery strategy. Reach out to the CapStorm team and learn how to face any breach confidently, knowing that your Salesforce data is secure and your business is resilient.
