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Black Friday and Cyber Weekend: Navigating the Tumultuous Waters of Retail Cybersecurity

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Black Friday and Cyber Weekend: Navigating the Tumultuous Waters of Retail Cybersecurity sparsh Tue, 11/21/2023 - 05:01 As global consumers gear up for the much-anticipated shopping bonanza that is Black Friday and Cyber Weekend, retailers brace themselves for the frenzied onslaught of shoppers and the deluge of cyber threats lurking in the shadows.

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SHARED INTEL: IT pros gravitate to ‘passwordless’ authentication to improve security, boost agility

The Last Watchdog

Passwordless authentication as a default parameter can’t arrive too soon. That’s the upshot of a new report, The State of Passwordless Security 2021 , put out by HYPR , a New York City-based supplier of advanced authentication systems. Related: Top execs call for facial recognition to be regulated. 1 use case is remote access.”.

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MY TAKE: Agile cryptography is coming, now that ‘attribute-based encryption’ is ready for prime time

The Last Watchdog

Encryption agility is going to be essential as we move forward with digital transformation. ABE opens the door to an advanced form of the Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , the system we use to encrypt data, as well as to authenticate individual users and the web servers they log onto. Refer: The vital role of basic research.

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MY TAKE: DigiCert and Oracle partner to extend digital trust and scalable infrastructure globally

The Last Watchdog

Extending ‘digital trust’ As DigiCert and Oracle separately headed down these paths, digital transformation shifted into high gear and massive interconnectivity built off of wide distribution of ephemeral APIs took center stage. And that was the design point we gave them.”

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Ready for Take-off: Rising Above Airport Cybersecurity Challenges

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Many airports today are engaged in multiple and large-scale digital transformation efforts, such as moving IT data to the cloud, sharing real-time flight and ground status with airport workers, and even implementing a BYOD (bring-your-own-device) policy for employees.

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‘Tis the season for proliferating payment options…and risk

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

This year is expected to see similarly high numbers which is paralleled by increasing retailer anxiety about the state of their cybersecurity. In fact, according to our recent survey of retailers , 88% feel vulnerable to data threats. Digital payment data is created, shared and stored in more places than ever before.

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The Future of Payments? Frictionless.

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

With an estimated $500 billion retail market spend per year, what’s next for the payments industry as a whole. Consumers today live in the world of Amazon and online shopping and the need for effortless speed is ever-growing thanks to the retail giant. The answer is frictionless payments. Security as Frictionless as Checkout.