Data Security Trends: What Loss Prevention Needs to Know
While it’s true that retail data security responsibility often does not fall in loss prevention’s court, LP professionals need to be aware of the ongoing risks and emerging concerns in data...
View ArticleCyber Crime and Ransomware: No Business Is Immune
LP Insider has featured many articles on cyber crime, data protection and data corruption. Business giants and the government continue to be the primary targets of criminal hackers. But any business or...
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Building A New Data Security Defense Team
As technology draws us deeper into a new age of business enterprise, we are continuously bombarded with waves of challenges and opportunities involving those with malicious intentions. Data security...
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LP101: Data Security and Privacy
Data security has become a critical issue, and is considered a core aspect of many loss prevention programs. When it comes to protecting and managing data throughout the retail industry, we are facing...
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Cyber Security Experts Discuss the Challenges of Dealing with Data Breaches
A 2014 panel of four cyber security experts discussed evolving data security threats to the retail industry and the challenges of dealing with data breach response and investigations. Their...
View ArticleData Protection: Yours
In this Internet age, many people fear that true data protection and maintaining one’s privacy is nearly impossible. While it’s true that marketers, the government, and others are gathering and...
View ArticleMaintaining Data Security on Social Media, Mobile Apps and More
Virtually everyone is using mobile apps nowadays, and the use of social media is at an all-time high. Data security and privacy have become major issues, and every user needs to know how to protect...
View ArticleA Straightforward Data Protection Definition
In the digital technology era, information protection has become a top priority across all industries. The retail industry is no exception. The collection and use of data is now an integral part of...
View Article3 Ways Modern Retailers Can Minimize Enterprise Mobility Risks
In an effort to give employees access to corporate resources from anytime and anywhere, an increasing number of retailers are introducing “Bring Your Own Device” programs. These programs have become an...
View ArticleInternational Cyber Warriors Take On Retail Cyber Security Threats
The Internet is probably the most versatile invention of the 20th century and still continues to enlighten our thinking into the 21st century. It also has a dark side called Tor (an acronym for “the...
View ArticleHow to Develop an Effective Information Security Policy
While technology has helped to revolutionize the retail industry, the revolution has come with new risks. Internal and external security threats put a company’s data and data systems at risk on a daily...
View ArticleRansomware: When Cyber Crime Gets Personal
In a July 2016 article, I talked about ransomware as a rapidly growing form of cyber crime. It was noted that cyber criminals went after businesses, literally hijacking their data and holding it...
View ArticleHow to Keep Data Secure from Insider Threats
Just as online marketplaces made shoplifting worse by providing thieves with an easy avenue to sell their stolen goods, the dark web is raising risk by offering employees a venue for doing the dirty...
View ArticleIncreased Corporate Data Security Spending Underscores Need for Personal Data...
Data security is a subject that only the government and business need to worry about, right? Wrong! Yes, corporate data security is very big business with a spend of $82 billion in 2017 and growing,...
View ArticleThe Hacktivist Threat in 2017
If not before, when the President of the United States lobbed Twitter attacks against Nordstrom for merchandising decisions related to his daughter’s fashion line, it became clear: it’s getting...
View ArticleReporting Details of Cyber Threats Could Help Prevent Future Hacks
Sometimes you have to think and act like a criminal to disrupt and defeat their activities. Conversely, it is only by thinking like “us”—the law-abiding majority of individuals—that cyber criminals...
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Building A New Data Breach Policy
As technology draws us deeper into a new age of business enterprise, we are continuously bombarded with challenges and opportunities involving those with malicious intentions. Data security attacks...
View ArticleA Straightforward Data Protection Definition
In the digital technology era, information protection has become a top priority across all industries. The retail industry is no exception. The collection and use of data is now an integral part of...
View ArticleHow a Security-Only Network Can Limit Risks from Data Breaches
Cyber attacks are one of the greatest threats facing global businesses today. Hardly a day goes by that there is not a report of another company suffering at the hands of hackers breaching their...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know about E-Commerce Security Issues
E-commerce is defined as the buying and selling of products and services over electronic systems, such as the Internet. The Internet has driven a huge increase in the level of trade conducted...
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