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How to Maximize the Value of Penetration Tests

eSecurity Planet

Either case presents challenges, but to maximize the value of a penetration test, the organization must balance cost savings with quality. Conflicts of Interest The IT and DevOps staff created the environment, so will they be willing to honestly present that the IT resources or applications were deployed incorrectly?

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COVID-19 ‘Breach Bubble’ Waiting to Pop?

Krebs on Security

Global lockdowns from COVID-19 have resulted in far fewer fraudsters willing or able to visit retail stores to use their counterfeit cards, and the decreased demand has severely depressed prices in the underground for purloined card data. Alforov said the median price for card-present data has dropped precipitously over the past few months.

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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. “An How to Be Cybersecure in Virtual Family Gatherings. The post How To Keep Cybersecure Over the Holidays appeared first on Adam Levin.

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How to Take Your Business to The Next Level with Data Intelligence

erwin

The retail industry has also employed data intelligence in developing tools to better forecast and plan according to supply and demand trends and consumer Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Data intelligence can take raw, untimely, and incomprehensible data and present it in an aggregated, condensed, digestible, and usable information.

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MY TAKE: Agile cryptography is coming, now that ‘attribute-based encryption’ is ready for prime time

The Last Watchdog

Encryption is an arcane science that has long presented an irresistible challenge to the best and brightest researchers. Yet, the bottom line is that the retailer, in this scenario, really has no choice but to accept the sizable risk that a private key will eventually get brute-forced hacked, stolen or simply left out in the open.

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‘People are strange, when you’re a stranger’: A retail bank view into artificial intelligence

CGI

‘People are strange, when you’re a stranger’: A retail bank view into artificial intelligence. For the past five years, CGI has surveyed retail bank customers to identify what they want from banks, how they view alternative providers, and opportunities for further bank investment to provide banks with a view into the year ahead.

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Discovery to delivery: Transform the shopper’s journey

IBM Big Data Hub

The challenges of keeping a promise The challenge is particularly true in highly competitive areas like omnichannel retail or even B2B domains—wholesale distribution and dealer-based after-market parts. Choice of how to order, where and when they can have it delivered or picked up, and their post-order service options.

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