Top 5 Holiday Shopping Season Threats for Retail and Hospitality

This blog is part of the RH-ISAC holiday guidance blog series. For more blogs in this series, visit https://rhisac.org/blog/. The holiday season brings out more than decorations, carols, and hot chocolate. The drastic influx in retail activity as people scurry to cross items off their shopping lists means that hackers come out in droves and malicious…

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Why Red? Why Purple? A NIST CSF View

Red and Purple Teaming serve distinct purposes, and we think NIST CSF backs us up on that. We outline why we believe in starting with Purple Teams to validate Protect and Detect before using Red Teams to validate Respond. I’ve heard the question, “Do Purple Teams help to test the incident response process?” over and…

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Three Security Lessons to Keep in Mind Leading Up To the RH-ISAC Summit

By Heather Howland, VP of Marketing, Preempt It’s never been more important for retailers to harden their cybersecurity posture— especially given the documented trend of intensified attacks on retailers during the rapidly-approaching holiday season. We’re excited to attend the 2018 Retail Cyber Intelligence Summit in Denver and look forward to learning from and sharing perspective…

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Beyond the Cybersecurity Breach: To the Right of Boom

A series of cybersecurity breaches in the 2013 to 2014 timeframe were the shot heard throughout the industry for many retailers. For some retailers the shot has resulted in a direct hit, while for others it has served as a warning fired across the bow. In all cases, the impact of these events has resulted…

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