Bill Conner

Call it optimism or just human nature — retailers, like most people, don’t like to spend a lot of time thinking about unseen threats. A series of painful breaches a few years ago forced the industry to wake up to the dangers of cyber crime and implement new measures to address and control online risks,…

It wasn’t that long ago that the retail industry received the biggest cybersecurity gut punch it’s had in recent memory. Over the past few years, we’ve seen retailers begin implementing credit card chip technology and other security measures in an effort to protect consumers’ payment data and their brands’ reputations. However, as technology and security…