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The commitment to increasing retailer’s cyber security posture via collaboration, partnership and sharing threat intelligence was evident at the RH-ISAC Regional Intelligence Workshop, hosted at member company Target’s headquarters June 7. Rich Agostino, Target’s CISO, kicked things off with a powerful opening statement indicating, “Cybersecurity is critical to the success of the entire organization. Collaboration…

We took our workshop tour to Canada on Tuesday to host the first RH-ISAC Canadian Retail Cybersecurity Invitational with our partner, Deloitte. The one-day gathering brought cybersecurity professionals together from Canada’s leading retail, grocer, consumer products, entertainment, and hospitality organizations. The day increased local retailers’ awareness of shared cybersecurity challenges and we began meaningful discussions…

By Kathleen Weinberger and Roman Sannikov Below is a featured blog post from associate member Flashpoint. This comes as a follow-up to the webinar they presented recently to the RH-ISAC membership. We thank them for their expertise and willingness to share and support the RH-ISAC’s community of retail cybersecurity practitioners.    Fraud is a persistent…

By: Jennifer McGoldrick-Stenberg, Director, Membership & Operations, RH-ISAC As Malcolm Forbes once said, “diversity [is] the art of thinking independently together.” This powerful message is paralleled in the thoughtful responses I received during my conversation with Deb Dixson. As you may know, Deb is the former senior vice president of information security and risk at…

By: Suzie Squier, Executive Director, RH-ISAC Whether it was working with legal counsel to determine what information can be shared, or in internal discussions with his team, “being all in” was Publix vice president of IS architecture and security Steve Wellslager’s mantra for his efforts in increasing Publix’ sharing within the RH-ISAC community. Steve opened…