RH-ISAC Taps TruSTAR as a new Partner in New Information Sharing Architecture

Today the RH-ISAC announced the addition of another threat intelligence partner, TruSTAR Technology.   TruSTAR is a valuable addition to the ISAC’s technology suite, built from the ground up the platform will increase our ability to break down barriers to intelligence exchange. The RH-ISAC now supports a more automated method to support ingest of member-shared data, to…

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Accepting the Challenge

Last week was our inaugural RH-ISAC Summit in Chicago. With just over 200 attendees, we had the most significant retail industry professionals covering the latest and greatest in cybersecurity issues and trends.   Kicking off the two days of deep discussions was a session with the RH-ISAC Board of Directors sharing their vision of the…

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Sharing Threat Intelligence at Both Ends of the Chain

An SC Magazine e-book came out recently, dubbed “Retail Retaliation,” which gives a good summation of some of the issues facing retailers these days. It’s an oversimplification to say it’s all about that POS, but we certainly know that attackers are going to keep exploiting vulnerabilities where the transactions occur. Ranging from physical compromise of the POS…

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Don’t Forget to Share This One Important Thing.

Many organizations are nervous about sharing threat intelligence, especially if they think it reveals details about the inner workings of their organizations. But there’s one case where they should hold their collective noses and do it anyway. More sites are basing their controls on threat intelligence, and that means that they’re getting reports on both…

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7 Ways in Which Retail Security is Different

Hello, and welcome to the Retail CISC blog! We thought we’d start with an inaugural post on how retail security is different from (and often harder than) security for your standard enterprise. Is there such a thing as a standard enterprise? Probably not from the CISO’s point of view, but many vendors and regulatory bodies…

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