Four months ago, the Javits Center in New York City was bustling with more than 40,000 people attending the National Retail Federation (NRF) 2020 Vision: Retail’s Big Show. Navigating retail innovation across four incongruent floors covering 760,000 square feet – with a 15-story glass-enclosed Crystal Palace high and wide enough for endless imagination – seems…
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The entire world is on edge, watching as COVID-19 continues to spread at an exponential rate. The uncertainty and unknowns around the illness have all of us thirsty for news and information about the virus: we all want to know what’s going on and how we can best protect our families. Hackers are taking full…
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The cyberthreats following in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic are not substantively different from the threats that security professionals have dealt with during other national or global calamities like the Indian Ocean tsunami, Amazon fires, floods, and hurricanes. Sophisticated cybercriminal, state-sponsored threat actors, and hacktivists have always taken advantage of widespread anxieties in times…
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This past Sunday, March 8, was International Women’s Day. All weekend, #IWD2020-related posts topped my social feeds. Two posts in particular stood out – one was shared by a fellow cybersecurity professional and features a picture of his daughter, a bright student still in high school, beaming as she shows off a t-shirt that she…
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Colin Anderson, global CISO at Levi Strauss & Co., has been with the Retail & Hospitality ISAC since the beginning in 2014, when he and a small group of retail and hospitality organizations came together to develop an intelligence sharing community. As the current RH-ISAC Board Chair, and an IT executive with more than 25…
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