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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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Sports retail giant Decathlon leaks 123 million customer and employee records

IT Governance

Decathlon, the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, has suffered a massive data breach, affecting 123 million customer and employee records. It contained information from the retailer’s Spanish businesses and potentially its UK stores. Avoid basic errors with staff awareness training.

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Finance sector must simplify staff awareness training

IT Governance

Financial services firms must do more to educate employees about cyber security, according to the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority). In a report published last month , the FCA urged organisations to tackle staff awareness training at all levels, and to ensure the lessons are simple and appropriate to the environment that employees work in.

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E-learning: the effective way to train your team

IT Governance

It is widely acknowledged that the retail and hospitality industries experience high staff turnover: frontline roles are often filled by temporary, young or part-time staff, the hours can be long and unsociable and the work can be physically demanding. Educating your staff can be complex to arrange, time consuming and costly.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

But right now, pure AI can be programmed for many tasks that require thought and intelligence , as long as that intelligence can be gathered digitally and used to train an AI system. Generative AI can produce high-quality text, images and other content based on the data used for training. We’re all amazed by what AI can do.

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Conversational AI use cases for enterprises

IBM Big Data Hub

DL models can improve over time through further training and exposure to more data. HR and internal processes: Conversational AI applications streamline HR operations by addressing FAQs quickly, facilitating smooth and personalized employee onboarding, and enhancing employee training programs. AI training is a continuous process.

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Data breaches and cyber attacks quarterly review: Q3 2021

IT Governance

As the graph above demonstrates, the other big contributors were the technology and media sector (37 incidents), the education sector (35), retail (18) and professional services (15). Notably, there has been a decline in data breaches and cyber attacks in the retail sector compared to Q2 (18 vs 41).