» Luke Blog

If there’s a fire to put out in the Charlottesville, VA, area, you’ll probably find Alex Belgard there – whether it’s an actual fire or the cyber kind. As team lead of network and security for Crutchfield Corporation, Alex leads the security team for the privately held, online retailer that specializes in a wide range of…

‘Tis the season where retailers see a much higher volume of sales, both in stores and online. This makes it harder to detect anomalous traffic, and it is impractical to block IP ranges based upon geography, because online sales can be global. Retail staff is motivated and focused upon sales, at the risk of possibly…

We recently interviewed RH-ISAC Board Director, Ken Athanasiou, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, AutoNation, Inc., about his involvement with the RH-ISAC and his thoughts for its future. He feels that cooperation and communication are vital if retailers are to be successful in combatting organized crime and nation-state actors. RH-ISAC: Can you tell us a bit…

The RH-ISAC celebrated its most successful Summit to date with a fascinating closing keynote by LTG John Mulholland Jr (Ret), commander of the “horse soldiers” of the Iraqi Freedom campaign, who gave attendees advice on great leadership: Leadership demands moral courage—be equal to it! It would not have been possible without our quickly growing, global…

RH-ISAC’s third annual Retail Cyber Intelligence Summit kicked off yesterday with a keynote from Doug Stephens, the Retail Prophet and continued with a full schedule of sessions. Topics included everything from Building a Threat Intelligence Program,  Utilizing Dashboards and Metrics to Drive Performance, and Track Bad Actors and Decrease Vulnerabilities to panels on Diversity and…