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Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach? Retailers started the century as the prime targets for cyber attackers looking for credit card data. Today, unfortunately, retailers are again coming back to the spotlight. Similar to many organizations, 36% of retail respondents cited human error as the leading threat.

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Ransomware: Now Is the Time to Address This Challenge

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Although the news headlines are flooded with incidents affecting areas from critical infrastructure and healthcare to retail and education, we have a great opportunity to address this challenge. Protect and control sensitive data at rest and in transit through encryption and tokenization.

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The Hand of Amazon: How the financial industry must keep up

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

A bold move by the retail giant which aims to offer the complete shopping journey for customers by changing how identification at check-in can substitute authentication at check-out for payment. The financial sector has long embraced innovation in tandem with the security industry and more recently, the retail industry.

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Self-Sovereign Identities, The Next Step in Privacy-First User Experience

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

a bank), a retailer, or an individual’s employer. On the way to widely adopting SSI, several challenges must be overcome, including interoperability issues, regulatory frameworks, fallback mechanisms for offline use cases, and general education for the general populace. The verifier is the party checking the credential.

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The advantages and disadvantages of private cloud 

IBM Big Data Hub

The popularity of private cloud is growing, primarily driven by the need for greater data security. Across industries like education, retail and government, organizations are choosing private cloud settings to conduct business use cases involving workloads with sensitive information and to comply with data privacy and compliance needs.

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging best practices and an open standard to protect corporate data

The Last Watchdog

But the challenges are accumulating on multiple fronts: •Cloud computing. One-half of corporate data is now stored in the cloud. Organizations are equipping workers with cloud-based applications like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and running enterprise workloads on cloud platforms like AWS. Educate employees.

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Top GRC Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. Its features include: Compliance education & management. Additionally, Forrester named it a Contender in its Q1 2020 GRC Wave. See our in-depth look at RSA Archer.