Retail Cybersecurity: Improving Resources to Combat the Multi-Headed Hydra

With major advances in technology come ever-changing, ever more inventive ways of upending it. Hacking and other cyberattacks are at least as much of a cybersecurity threat to retail as to other industries, in that they touch millions of consumers and the well-being of their identities and finances. It’s clear from the enormity of the damage caused by the breaches noted above that we are no longer dealing with amateurs. Cyberattackers are no longer teenagers showing off, but organized crime rings with clear jobs and goals. Fortunately, a powerful cybersecurity industry has emerged to meet the threat, and is growing.