Strengthen Your Security against Today’s Cyber Attacks on Retailers
The worldwide WannaCry ransomware attack proved less destructive than initially feared, but it was another reminder of the danger that lurks in our inbox. And although there is now some doubt that the...
View ArticleWhat Is the Best Identity Theft Protection?
Like most people, you probably shop online a lot. No doubt you use your credit or debit cards often at stores and restaurants. We know that shopping online and using credit and debit cards increases...
View ArticleGet Ready Now for the Cyber Attack Risks of Tomorrow
It has always been important for loss prevention executives to understand the top risks facing their businesses and to appreciate what keeps their CEOs up at night, but a report by the World Economic...
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Document Retention Guidelines and Considerations
Data security best practices that include an active document retention and destruction policy is critical for any business and must be considered a priority for today’s retail enterprise. With the...
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 (BYOD) programs. These programs have...
View ArticleThe Equifax Security Breach Affected 143 Million. Why?
When reading the statements coming from Equifax, there seems to be a lot of information in what they fail to say. It is clear the organization simply does not understand certain cyber security basics....
View ArticleData Protection Training: Yours
In the digital age, many people fear that effective data protection and maintaining one’s privacy is nearly impossible. While it’s true that marketers, the government, and others are gathering and...
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 ArticleEmail Scams Just Keep on Coming
Most people know that con artists sending legitimate-looking emails that attempt to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers, is known as phishing....
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 ArticlePhysical Security IS Data Security
According to the online technology dictionary Techopedia.com, “data security” is defined as the “protective digital privacy measures that are applied to prevent unauthorized access to computers,...
View ArticlePhone Scams Remain on the IRS “Dirty Dozen” List of Tax Scams for 2017
In a recent article (“Email Scams Just Keep on Coming“), we looked at email scams as a fast-growing cyber crime. This post will examine an older crime: less prolific in today’s world, but often more...
View ArticleIncreased Corporate Data Security Spending Underscores Need for Personal Data...
Data security is a task that only the government and business leaders need to worry about, right? Wrong! Yes, corporate data security is very big business, with a spend of $82 billion in 2017 and...
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 ArticleLPM Insider’s Top 5 Data Protection Articles of 2017
The Hacktivist Threat in 2017 Retail organizations are increasingly finding themselves as the target of hacktivist attacks. By Garett Seivold If not before, when the President of the United States...
View Article2018 Emerging Trends in Cyber Risk for Retail
LP Magazine‘s columnist Tom Meehan, CFI, shares his top five predictions for cyber risks retailers can expect in 2018: 1. Ransomware attacks will increase in 2018 and will become more sophisticated....
View ArticleThe Chertoff Group Predicts the Top 6 Security Risks of 2018
Security issues were a top concern for many organizations during 2017, with Russian hackers, high-impact ransomware attacks, and major data breaches dominating the headlines. As retailers prepare for...
View ArticleCustomer Privacy at Risk When Companies Become Complacent Regarding Data...
As new estimates predict cyber crime costs will exceed $2 trillion by 2019, many consumers are wary of letting companies handle their personal data. Lack of diligence in the business world has...
View ArticleThe ‘Why’ Behind Intellectual Property Theft Cases
For more than a decade, the CERT Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute has been gathering and analyzing actual malicious insider incidents. Based on case patterns, it...
View ArticleWhy Sharing Threat Details Needs to Be Part of Your Cyber Attack Response Plan
Sometimes you have to think and act like a criminal to disrupt and defeat the activities of the real bad guys. Conversely, it is only by thinking like “us”—the law-abiding majority of individuals—that...
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