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Retailers Face Many Challenges, Data Security Doesn’t Have to be One of the Them

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Retailers and shoppers are leveraging and enjoying many benefits data sharing brings: loyalty programs, personalized experiences, easier product location and ordering, online shopping, mobile access and the list goes on. Unfortunately, this results in retailers as a top target for cyberattacks. Business is booming and data is flowing.

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It’s time to think twice about retail loyalty programs

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. What I’d originally planned to write about was a topic that directly applies – why retailers of all stripes are not investing in data security. But none of these reasons rose to the top in retail.

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. Extending the approach of looking back from 2017 to the larger national economy required the selection of economic sectors best represented by the 169 survey respondents.

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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. The app heavily encrypts all user financial data. Deploying privacy protections: The app uses encryption to protect data from cybercriminals and other prying eyes. It records only whether anyone is sick.

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8 Ways to Protect Yourself against Scams on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Adam Levin

A BBB survey conducted in August found that the majority of these scammed consumers made purchases for which they never received products. “Of Don’t click that link… According to the BBB survey, emails wasn’t the most common way scammers pilfered people’s pockets, but it does still happen. On top of that, 80.5%

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How To Keep Cybersecure Over the Holidays

Adam Levin

This presents a set of challenges for IT professionals, with 36.6% of those surveyed listing poorly secured personal and network devices as being their primary concern with a remote workforce. A recent survey , commissioned by Cyberscout and conducted online by The Harris Poll among over 2,000 U.S.

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Consumers have their Say about Protection of Personal Data – Call for More Stringent Controls

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. Given this, it is hardly surprising that respondents to the Thales survey did not trust social media companies. Tue, 10/11/2022 - 06:46.