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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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4 Crucial Tips for Maintaining a Web Application Firewall for Retail

Daymark

Retailers are under intense competition to deliver personal, seamless and differentiated on-line shopping experiences to ensure customer loyalty and drive growth. And while a retailer’s website must be extremely responsive and meet high user expectations, it must also be highly secure.

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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IBM X-Force Exchange Threat Intelligence Platform

eSecurity Planet

The top-ranked IBM X-Force Exchange threat intelligence platform (TIP) integrates enterprise-grade external security threat information with the tools a security professional needs to analyze how the threat might impact the organization. For a comparison with other TIP products, see the complete list of top threat intelligence companies.

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The Rise of the Bad Bots

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

While this individual statistic is astounding, it is only the tip of the iceberg. Although some bad bot use cases, such as content scraping and account takeover, are prevalent across different sectors, others, like scalping, usually impact specific industries like online retail and entertainment (ticketing).

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Don’t let bad data drag you down: A retailer’s guide

Collibra

Retail is a dynamic and competitive market. In addition to the traditional brick-and mortar-stores, the retail business today includes online and mobile stores. The right kind of data can drive great innovations in retail. This blog outlines what bad data means and how you can stop it from hurting your retail business.

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Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling

The Security Ledger

Max gives us some tips about how best to respond to ransomware threats and attacks. While exact numbers are hard to come by, large scale studies of companies found that more than a third had been hit by ransomware in the past year, with the retail, government and education sectors particularly hard hit.