Holiday Prep for Ecommerce & Retail: Latest Cyber Threats & Strategies - Seguridad Mania.com - España y América Latina

Every year, retail companies are seeing more of their revenue shift to the ecommerce part of their business during the holiday season. For 2015, revenue from ecommerce sites during the holidays is forecasted to yield over $82 Billion, an increase of 14% over 2014. With this amount of retail revenue moving to ecommerce sites, companies cannot afford to have any downtime that might deter customers from accessing their site and or having a smooth customer experience. Of all the ways an ecommerce site might be affected to upset a business during a busy revenue-generating holiday season, cyber breaches are usually not thought as one of them until it’s too late.

Security breaches are an increasingly damaging threat within the retail and ecommerce industry and can disrupt the availability and revenue of ecommerce and retail businesses. In some cases, several of the highest–profile breaches have occurred to household names, and have resulted in millions of records being released–at the cost of tens of millions of dollars–and in at least one case, costing executives their jobs. It is of course important that all retail organizations learn lessons from these breaches so as to not duplicate errors from the past.

In preparation for one of the biggest revenue seasons of the year for ecommerce and Retail, Tricia Pattee, Security Product Manager from HOSTING and Paul Fletcher, Security Evangelist from Alert Logic will provide insight into the latest cyber security trends related to ecommerce and retail as well as the following:

· Examine the attack vectors and the profile of the threat actors of cyber attacks

· Provide an understanding of the weaknesses and vulnerabilities that are affecting retail and ecommerce companies

· Discuss defenses against the retail and ecommerce-related breaches to help detect and prevent copycat attackers