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Overview
From brick-and-mortar to e-commerce, retail businesses are no strangers to security and performance risk.
Retailers operate on tight margins, face constant competition, and must deal with shifts in consumer preferences while keeping the threat of disruption top of mind. To enhance user experience, reduce capital expenses, and increase revenue, retail businesses are turning to IT modernization. This modernization, which includes migrating business-critical applications to the cloud, adding internet-connected payment devices, and reengineering applications, delivers clear benefits. However, it also introduces new security and performance risks that threaten business resilience.
Challenges
Advanced threats, unplanned downtime, and broken user experience directly threaten retail profitability. This risk is magnified by third-party and software vulnerabilities, difficult-to-monitor devices, and blind spots across complex networks, which all increase the likelihood of security incidents and performance issues.
Migrating or reengineering revenue-generating applications to cloud environments can introduce security vulnerabilities, misconfiguration, shadow IT, and coverage gaps.
Adopting Internet of Things (IoT) devices like handheld scanners or beacons in retail locations, warehouses, and fulfillment networks creates new entry points and attack vectors for malicious actors, as well as new opportunities for broken user experiences.
Adversaries target infrastructure and people as a way to exfiltrate customer and business data, amplify damage, and extract increasingly large ransom payments.
Threat actors can evade endpoint security and firewalls to move laterally and use encryption to cover their tracks as they cut off access to the critical systems and data.
Stretched IT resources struggle to maintain compliance with PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) and other data protection regulations, a process that is both complicated and time-consuming.
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