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Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach? What would the consequences be if such an event happens were to happen on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or during the holiday shopping season? Today, unfortunately, retailers are again coming back to the spotlight.

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SEC Announces 2022 Examination Priorities: Private Funds, ESG, Retail, Cyber, Digital Assets Top the List

Data Matters

1 Consistent with its recent rulemaking activity, in its accompanying release, the SEC highlighted private funds; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing; retail; cyber; and digital assets as key examination priorities. On March 30, 2022, the U.S.

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Recent Data Breach Events in China

Hunton Privacy

Zhabei District police investigated online message platforms, and targeted an education information consulting company as the source of the spam messages. This person had sold the data to the local resident, who then resold them to the education company owner and a few others, including the owners of another education company and a cultural communications company.

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The Third Modern Data Management Summit: Making Data Work!

Reltio

The event consisted of over 40 sessions and panels featured more than 60 speakers across industries. Speakers represented life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, financial services, consulting services, and hi-tech. Reltio was the Diamond sponsor and host of the event. This year the event offered three tracks – Modern Data Management, Personalize Customer 360 , and Healthcare & Life Sciences. Ankur Gupta, Sr.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for November 2022

IT Governance

Elsewhere, we assess data breaches at a cancer research facility and the US retailer Bed Bath & Beyond. The US retail store Bed Bath & Beyond recently confirmed that it suffered a data breach after an employee was caught out by a phishing scam.

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Best Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs)

eSecurity Planet

Metrics: Monitors more than 150 billion security events per day in more than 130 countries. Metrics: Six global SOCs analyze two billion events per day. Intelligence: Combines ML, big data, and complex event processing analysis.

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The Customer Journey Digital Transformation Workbook

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

Think about how Amazon’s market capitalization towers above that of other retailers, or how the iPhone regularly captures over 90 percent of smartphone industry profits.) The worksheet takes participants through the following steps: Capture the Customer Event and the Customer’s Objectives for that Event. Customer Events could include planning a vacation, buying a house, or purchasing insurance. Digital Transformation is becoming a business mandate.

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FTC Hosts Workshop on Informational Injury

Hunton Privacy

Panelists were presented with two consumer harm and injury hypotheticals (one in a privacy context, based on retail tracking and marketing, and one in a security context, based on unauthorized access to company consumer data) and asked to assess at which stage of the hypothetical they believed consumer injury was taking place. They may not, however, be aware of what disclosing their information means and consumer education efforts to date have largely been ineffective.

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Coming together for DC ‘21

Collibra

Attendees will hear from numerous industries including healthcare, telecommunications, energy and utilities, higher education, technology, life sciences, and retail. I am eagerly waiting for June 16th to kick off this great event.

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MY TAKE: Michigan’s cybersecurity readiness initiatives provide roadmap others should follow

The Last Watchdog

When Snyder took office at the start of 2011, Google had just disclosed details about Operation Aurora – China’s systematic breach of dozens of marquee corporations; details were trickling out about a worm, called Stuxnet , that had corrupted the controls of Iranian nuclear plants; and the massive Target retail chain breach, which was to pivot off the overlooked third-party access of a ventilation contractor, was two years in the future.

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Businesses to Assist NHS Test and Trace Efforts

Hunton Privacy

Going forward, this type of additional data collection is likely to be applied not only in the hospitality sector but also in the education, retail and manufacturing sectors, as they reopen.

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Top 9 Network Access Control (NAC) Solutions

eSecurity Planet

The company started in education and has expanded to government and corporate markets. ExtremeControl is popular with education, entertainment, hospitality and healthcare customers and can scale to 200,000 endpoints.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #10 [Eye Opener] BusinessWeek: The Satellite Hack Everyone Is Finally Talking About

KnowBe4

The websites attempt to steal credentials before directing the users to legitimate retail websites, which generates referral rewards for the scammers. While she has met expectations in knowledge and communication, there was one particular event of note. "We

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11 cyber security predictions for 2020

IT Governance

The retail and hospitality industries will continue to have their POS equipment targeted. Businesses and organisations should look into SOCs (security operations centres) and SIEM (security and incident event management) tools to protect their technology usage.

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Data Citizens of the World, Unite!

Collibra

Speakers will hail from a variety of sectors, including financial services, utilities, telco, technology, retail, healthcare, and universities, providing deeper insights and perspectives on common data challenges shared across industries. Attendees will even have the chance to become a product manager at the event through the “PM for a Day” sessions. Education and community are the main focus of the two days – but it’s also going to be a lot of fun!

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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

Coca-Cola received an overwhelming majority of the votes, beating out the toy maker Mattel, the online education platform Blackboard, the tech firm Danaher and General Electrics’ aviation subsidiary. 2022 will go down as the year where some semblance of normality returned.

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INSIGHTS from SENTINEL

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The virtual event provided hundreds of attendees with thought-provoking sessions and lots of practical tools for growing revenue in a digital age. solution, access, value, and education. INSIGHTS from SENTINEL. jstewart. Wed, 06/23/2021 - 16:11.

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The Customer Journey Digital Transformation Workbook

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

Think about how Amazon’s market capitalization towers above that of other retailers, or how the iPhone regularly captures over 90 percent of smartphone industry profits.) The worksheet takes participants through the following steps: Capture the Customer Event and the Customer’s Objectives for that Event. Customer Events could include planning a vacation, buying a house, or purchasing insurance. Digital Transformation is becoming a business mandate.

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Does the UK have a different attitude to ebooks?

CILIP

Whether it’s Los Angeles Public Library, or King County (Seattle), or many of the other markets, they’ve had success in educating their service areas about the opportunity to benefit from their library, 24/7 from anywhere. Author education.

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Take action with your library this Libraries Week

CILIP

s, in partnership with Authors Aloud UK, help us kick off Libraries Week with a special book event with author Femi Fadugba, talking about his new book The Upper World, a game-changing YA thriller that defies space and time and in which the library has a part to play!

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The Tragedy of the Data Commons

John Battelle's Searchblog

Over the past decade or so, all of our quotidian activities (and far more) have been turned into data, and that data can and is being sold to the insurance industry: “The companies are tracking your race, education level, TV habits, marital status, net worth. Insurance has always been a data-driven business – it’s driven by actuarial risk assessment, a statistical method that predicts the probability of a certain event happening. Before, and after?

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

Best network security practices are essential, including using anti-malware, firewalls, intrusion prevention and detection (IPDS), network and log monitoring, data protection, security information and event management (SIEM), and threat intelligence. User education is one of the most powerful tools for preventing malicious mobile apps. Since 2008, RAM scraping has been a boon for retailers.

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Data, Ethics, and the Business – Five Key Takeaways

Collibra

In the event of a data-focused problem, the organization could wind up reacting in a less-than-optimal way. Explain the importance of good data to the business – Often the business needs educating on why issues such as data quality and data ethics are so important. Involve a wide range of stakeholders – In any new business project that involves using data, for example, a new retail-focused AI solution, it helps to have a variety of stakeholders considering data issues.

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In Today’s Privacy Environment, That’s the Way the (Website) Cookie Crumbles: Data Privacy Trends

eDiscovery Daily

The companies audited were from industries ranging from online retail to sports to banking & insurance to media, even automotive & electronics and home and residential. As the article notes, it may be that none of the websites integrated a cookie-blocking function prior to ‘consent events’ being logged. It’s only been three weeks, but we’ve already talked plenty about the first big GDPR fine of €50 million (or about $56.8

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Shift happens: the future office/library in a connected world

CILIP

climate change extreme events). The dramatic stories of retail empires collapsing, and images of closed shopfronts create a powerful narrative of inevitable and unstoppable decline. Shift happens: the future office/library in a connected world.

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Data Governance and Business Transformation

Collibra

Collibra organized a Data Governance and Business Transformation seminar in Paris recently, bringing together data managers from the financial, retail, transportation, and logistics industries. Whatever the chosen format (videos, MOOC, events, etc.), education and training are essential as data governance and related functions are still new to many companies.