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Security AI and automation are key in protecting against costly data breaches for retailers and consumer goods businesses

IBM Big Data Hub

The rise of online commerce over the last two decades has completely transformed the retail and consumer goods industries—and with smartphone adoption accelerating globally, the share of shopping done via the internet will only continue to expand. of all studied attacks among the top ten industries in 2022, up from 7.3%

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Cyber-Criminal espionage Operation insists on Italian Manufacturing

Security Affairs

ZLab researchers spotted a new malicious espionage activity targeting Italian companies operating worldwide in the manufacturing sector. This actor was first spotted by PaloAlto’s UNIT42 in 2018 during wide scale operations against technology, retail, manufacturing, and local government industries in the US, Europe and Asia.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

Tait Towers Manufacturing discloses security incident affecting employee data (unknown). Australian activewear retailer In Sport infected with ransomware (unknown). Retailers Intersport and Claire’s suffer payment card skimming attack (unknown). Duluth student alerted school district about security breach (unknown).

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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. And this isn't the first time NIST has conducted economic impact studies. It released a study of the economic impact of DES in 2001.

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How IBM Planning Analytics can help fix your supply chain

IBM Big Data Hub

In a manufacturing, distribution or retail context, this is the supply plan. The supply plan is typically anchored in capacity and can combine manufacturing capacity, supply capacity and labor capacity. The next step is to start layering on constraints. Then, everything comes together.

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Are Box Service Subscriptions A Gambling Habit?

Reltio

Within four years, the industry around these consumer product and retail companies grew 890% based on a recent survey by Hitwise. Having said this out loud, it sounds like the gamification of the retail experience. Once that negative experience threshold is reached, the member will likely churn out.

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SHARED INTEL: Study shows mismanagement of ‘machine identities’ triggers $52 billion in losses

The Last Watchdog

Now comes a study from Boston-based consultancy Air Worldwide that puts some hard numbers on the degree to which threat actors are plundering virtual machines. According to the study, poor management of machine identities leads directly to an estimated $52 billion to $72 billion in losses annually. Everything. It’s not hypothetical.