Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2021

As of 2018, Ermenegildo Zegna operated 480 retail stores (267 of which company-owned) across the world. Following the company’s strongly export-oriented strategy, exports account for over 90% of total sales. The revenge of the company was €1.159 billion as 2018. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

Ransomware 119

Ransomware Archiving Retail Manufacturing 119

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

Data science 84

Data science Analytics Unstructured data Artificial Intelligence 84

IT Governance

JULY 1, 2020

The only saving grace for the organisation – which didn’t do itself any favours by initially denying the story and threatening to sue people who reported on it – is that the leaked database comprised a list of records from past data breaches. You can take a look at every data breach and cyber attack that we recorded in June in this blog.

Data breaches 140

Data breaches Ransomware Retail Personal data 140

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As organizations collect larger data sets with potential insights into business activity, detecting anomalous data, or outliers in these data sets, is essential in discovering inefficiencies, rare events, the root cause of issues, or opportunities for operational improvements.

Unstructured data 72

Unstructured data Artificial Intelligence Sales Manufacturing 72

IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. Data breaches. That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. As usual, incidents affecting UK organisations are in bold. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics 116

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

As the holiday season approaches, many retail, hospitality, logistics, and food manufacturing organizations hire seasonal workers to meet increasing demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 7% job rise in the retail industry. How to Secure Access for your Seasonal Workers. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 05:36.

Access 71

Access Retail Security Authentication 71

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2023

Pair that with a semiconductor shortage amidst global car sales that are forecasted to top 69 million , and you can understand that disruptions in the automotive supply chain would be detrimental to the industry.​ For example, the chip shortage has been a call to action for both original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers.

B2B 66

B2B Manufacturing Blockchain Retail 66

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 5, 2022

IBM Planning Analytics, or TM1 as it used to be known, has always been a powerful upgrade from spreadsheets for all kinds of planning and reporting use cases, including financial planning and analysis (FP&A), sales & operations planning (S&OP), and many aspects of supply chain planning (SCP). Then, everything comes together.

Analytics 52

Analytics Sales Manufacturing Retail 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 16, 2024

This will likely involve collaboration between the product design team, project management, sales, and other departments as the business creates a detailed roadmap for how the new product will be built and deployed. It involves the regular collection of data to analyze how products reflect an organization’s broader business goals.

Marketing 83

Marketing Manufacturing Sales Customer Experience 83

Reltio

MAY 15, 2020

As the crisis unfolds, consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers have found themselves in an essential role. They understand how consumer packaged goods data can drive growth in the future. For example, two-thirds of consumers that have switched to new brands or retailers intend to stick with them.

Retail 72

Retail Customer Experience Manufacturing Sales 72

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Six months on from the legal implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a third of consumers have admitted they still aren’t confident that the companies they interact with comply with the regulation. A surprising 17% of UK consumers said they still hadn’t heard of the regulation compared to just 9% in Germany.

GDPR 82

GDPR Data breaches Retail Manufacturing 82

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

APRIL 18, 2019

Businesses in the consumer industry have seen a wave of unprecedented disruption and transformation that have made privacy and data protection issues a mainstream topic in boardrooms, amongst legislators, and across the wider public. 2019 promises challenges of similar or greater magnitude.

Privacy 40

Privacy Retail Data Privacy Manufacturing 40

Info Source

AUGUST 31, 2022

However, a major print industry sub-theme is the desire for data to drive decision-making during what are generally perceived to be unreliable global markets. There is also a trend toward growing sophistication in some emerging African markets, such as the embryonic solution sales approaches that have taken root in Ghana and Kenya.

Marketing 52

Marketing Sales Retail Insurance 52

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Big data and predictive analytics are increasingly being used to improve forecasting accuracy, allowing businesses to respond more effectively to changes in customer needs. A supply chain control tower can connect many sources of data-driven information and improve end-to-end visibility.

Blockchain 88

Blockchain Analytics Artificial Intelligence Marketing 88

Rocket Software

MARCH 11, 2022

For businesses that rely on mainframes, secure access to the data stored there is simply a business requirement. For instance, in the retail industry, mobile-enabled terminal emulation means sales representatives can get the answers they need on the floor without leaving the customers’ side. Greater agility, without the hassle.

Retail 52

Retail Manufacturing Compliance Access 52

Reltio

MAY 26, 2020

The move to direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales by Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies is already a recognizable trend but it’s widely acknowledged that the global pandemic has accelerated its adoption. Huge spikes in recent demand as consumers fill time they have on their hands have also provided large amounts of additional viewing data.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Retail Sales Digital transformation 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 16, 2019

This week marks the return of Amazon Prime Day – Amazon’s seasonal retail event which has fast become a masterclass in driving demand and growth through great customer experience. As I wrote about earlier this year , almost all enterprises are now storing sensitive data in digitally transformative environments, but only 30% are encrypting it.

Digital transformation 74

Digital transformation Customer Experience Encryption Authentication 74

CILIP

JULY 16, 2019

Jo Shaw, Sales Director, Book Discovery & Commerce Solutions at Nielsen Book said; ?We Nielsen Book is a leading provider of search, discovery, commerce, consumer research and retail sales analysis services globally. video, audio and text ? is consumed.

Libraries 40

Libraries e-Discovery Retail Sales 40

Reltio

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Subscription box services like Dollar Shave Club, Birchbox, Hygge and Blue Apron are continuing to surge in popularity likely due to online sales passing store sales for the first time in mid-2019. Within four years, the industry around these consumer product and retail companies grew 890% based on a recent survey by Hitwise.

Retail 52

Retail Customer Experience Sales Manufacturing 52

Data Protection Report

MAY 17, 2019

Social media data – right to remove and prohibit sale. Clarifies non-discrimination provision to allow retail loyalty programs. Expands definition of “de-identified” data, removes “household” from “personal information”. Exempts sharing between motor vehicle dealers & manufacturers. Bills to expand CCPA.

Retail 40

Retail Privacy Insurance Manufacturing 40

CGI

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Manufacturers and retailers face a major challenge to put the customer at the heart of their supply chain. E-commerce and m-commerce, for example, generate a continuous surge of flows and volume across multiple sales channels. Moving from the supply chain to the “demand chain” to meet customer needs. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com.

Artificial Intelligence 45

Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing Retail IoT 45

Info Source

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The demand for Capture & IDP solutions in 2021 was particularly strong in North America, where sales grew in double digits, including some projects that had been delayed due to the pandemic in 2020. Sales of Capture & Capture-related RPA solutions into Accounting use cases were particularly strong in 2021.

Marketing 52

Marketing Digital transformation Sales Paper 52

CGI

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

He did ,however, say it to his sales people to stop them asking (and trying to sell) many different variants of the Model T. In my next blog, I’ll talk more about some of the challenges faced by businesses as they look to use data driven business models to disrupt their market and operations.

Retail 40

Retail Analytics Marketing Financial Services 40

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 1, 2011

The program must include convenient methods for consumers to return electronic waste to the manufacturer and instructions on how consumers can destroy data on the devices before recycling or disposing of them. New Jersey would require businesses to destroy personal information stored on digital copiers before disposing of the machines.

Privacy 40

Privacy Risk Manufacturing Retail 40

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 36 million records. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. Data breached: 6.9 Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million data records belonging to EasyPark have been listed for sale on a hacking forum.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data is more than mere credentials, too – according to Cybernews, most of the exposed data is sensitive. In total, 3,876 domain names were included in the exposed data set.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

CGI

MAY 26, 2016

Direct through the network provider or via a mobile phone retailer (or even my supermarket)? In early 1997, Dell created an internal sales and marketing group dedicated to serving the home market and introduced a product line designed especially for individual users. I’ve had it for ages. Sim-only or contract? Android or Apple?

IoT 40

IoT Marketing Manufacturing Retail 40

IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Meanwhile, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) enforcement continues apace.

Security 132

Security Data breaches Ransomware Military 132

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

The majority of companies that did include the button/link were in the retail sector. Companies are approaching “sale” very differently. A few companies simply included CCPA’s broad definition of sale in the privacy policy and stated that under CCPA’s definition, “a sale may or may not have occurred.”.

Privacy 49

Privacy B2B Sales Compliance 49

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

The majority of companies that did include the button/link were in the retail sector. Companies are approaching “sale” very differently. A few companies simply included CCPA’s broad definition of sale in the privacy policy and stated that under CCPA’s definition, “a sale may or may not have occurred.”.

Privacy 40

Privacy B2B Sales Compliance 40

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. BianLian claims to have exfiltrated 5 TB of data, comprising millions of sensitive documents. Data breached: 5 TB.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

Reltio

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Everyone Needs Master Data Management (MDM), But Don’t Call It That. We had been discussing the recent increase in demand for Data Management technical skills and experience in the marketplace and why enterprise MDM (master data management) specifically is experiencing a revival of interest.

MDM 98

MDM IT B2B Sales 98

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Eye4Fraud database allegedly leaked – 14.9 Data breached: 14,900,000 lines. million unique records, with 9.4

Data Privacy 88

Data Privacy Privacy Insurance Security 88

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For example, when a customer contacts the business via chat, email or social media, that text or voice recording is unstructured data that needs to be collected and analyzed as part of the interaction. Dublin-based Glen Dimplex has sales, manufacturing and distribution facilities around the world.

Digital transformation 98

Digital transformation Unstructured data Artificial Intelligence Cloud 98

Info Source

MAY 20, 2022

Additionally, this study covers all categories of the DTG industry (Retail, Entry, Medium, etc.) Within the same year, Western Europe accounted for 72% of total unit sales across EMEA region, while Eastern Europe and Middle East & Africa accounted for 21.7% of Platens Total DTG EMEA Sales by No. respectively.

Marketing 52

Marketing Sales Retail Manufacturing 52

Info Source

MAY 20, 2022

Additionally, this study covers all categories of the DTG industry (Retail, Entry, Medium, etc.) Within the same year, Western Europe accounted for 72% of total unit sales across EMEA region, while Eastern Europe and Middle East & Africa accounted for 21.7% of Platens Total DTG EMEA Sales by No. respectively.

Marketing 52

Marketing Sales Retail Manufacturing 52