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5 Things Retailers Should Know About Cybersecurity

Duo's Security Blog

With growing concerns around security, ransomware and retail breaches, there are a few key considerations that retailers should keep in mind when it comes to protecting their organizations. Retail’s great “digital transformation” sped up, as did the number of data breaches impacting retail. Data breach costs rose from $3.86

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Top 9 Network Access Control (NAC) Solutions

eSecurity Planet

CounterACT plays well in regulated environments such as defense, finance, healthcare and retail. This NAC tool is built to enforce adaptive policies for wireless, wired or VPN accessed devices based on in-depth contextual analysis. CyberGatekeeper also offers a VPN and intrusion detection system. ForeScout CounterACT.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

The tools also depend upon physical controls that should also be implemented against malicious physical access to destroy or compromise networking equipment such as routers, cables, switches, firewalls, and other networking appliances. Instead, organizations should use a virtual private network (VPN) solution.

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What Is Edge Security? Overcoming Edge Computing Risks

eSecurity Planet

The fastest growing need stems from edge computing for the Internet of Things (IoT) such as fitness bands, self-driving cars, and retail point-of-sale (POS) registers. Data no longer lives safely behind the firewall and within corporate data centers. However, fully mobile requirements typically require cloud-based NaaS providers.

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10 Network Security Threats Everyone Should Know

eSecurity Planet

To protect your business’s network from internet threats, implement the following: A next-generation firewall (NGFW) : Installing a firewall between the public internet and your organization’s private network helps filter some initial malicious traffic. Imagine you’re a retailer with 50 store locations.

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Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager NAC Solution Review

eSecurity Planet

Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager Aruba ClearPass provides role- and device-based network access control for employees, students, contractors and guests across any multi-vendor wired, wireless and VPN infrastructure. Users report a 25,000 concurrent user appliance can “ easily handle between 250 and 300 authentications per second.”

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How to defend your website against card skimmers

Malwarebytes

Retail websites big and small can expect a lot of interest from shoppers looking for deals, and a lot of interest from cybercriminals looking to cash in on those shoppers, by stealing their credit card details with stealthy card skimmers. Use a Web Application Firewall (WAF). Keep website software up to date, every day.

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