The major retailer BCBG migrated to a cloud security platform and discovered the CloudAccess’SIEM and Log Management capabilities enhanced their abilities for enterprise security.
There was a time the only security issues retailers needed to be concerned with was theft. Put a guard in the store and a couple of video cameras and prevent as much loss as possible. Those days are long gone.
The overall security of a retail organization has grown increasingly complex. The smash and grab has been supplanted by the hack and breach. A retailer’s IT environment is at as much risk as the product on the retail shelf. Every year hundreds of retailers fall victim to electronic intrusion. Ask Raley’s, Zaxby’s, Mapco, Michaels’s and dozens of retailers about how their POS and other exposed systems were not only breached, but cost them untold millions of dollars in stolen customer credit cards, abused sensitive data, and reparations and fines.
But if you ask, most of the named companies and the hundreds and hundreds of others attest that they apply a variety of security measures to maintain the sanctity of customer information and secure the workings of their network. Industrial and regulatory compliance demands this.