IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As the retail industry witnesses a shift towards a more digital, on-demand consumer base, AI is becoming the secret weapon for retailers to better understand and cater to this evolving consumer behavior. Retailers recognize the need to build their strategies around AI, integrating it into many aspects of their operations.

Retail 90

Retail Unstructured data Artificial Intelligence Sales 90

Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

New Android malicious library Goldoson found in 60 apps +100M downloads Siemens Metaverse exposes sensitive corporate data CISA adds bugs in Android and Novi Survey to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Volvo retailer leaks sensitive files A cyberattack on the Cornwall Community Hospital in Ontario is causing treatment delays Google fixed (..)

Data breaches 246

Data breaches Security Libraries Retail 246

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Retailers and shoppers are leveraging and enjoying many benefits data sharing brings: loyalty programs, personalized experiences, easier product location and ordering, online shopping, mobile access and the list goes on. Unfortunately, this results in retailers as a top target for cyberattacks. Business is booming and data is flowing.

Retail 89

Retail Digital transformation Security Encryption 89

IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2019

The UK’s biggest retailers are spending more than ever on cyber security but are continuing to see an alarming rise in cyber attacks and data breaches due to the ever-evolving threat landscape, a report has found. Are retailers investing wisely? What are the biggest threats? Where can you start?

Retail 78

Retail Security Data breaches Government 78

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Financial and retail sectors are the most targeted by hackers using this attack technique simply because it is easy for attackers to monetize their efforts by compromising customers’ accounts. ” This technique allows attackers to hide malicious logins within the normal traffic volumes.

Passwords 272

Passwords Data breaches Financial Services Retail 272

Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Fifth annual Online Trust Alliance survey said retailers get good marks for offering clear unsubscribe links, using tools like SPF and DKIM and honoring unsubscribe requests.

Retail 72

Retail 72

CGI

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

CGI-sponsored GTNews survey reveals major challenge for corporate banks—declining client satisfaction (part 2). In my first blog in this two-part series, I shared a key finding of The Global Treasurer’s Transaction Banking Survey (GTNews survey) for 2019—declining corporate client satisfaction.

Retail 90

Retail Marketing Blockchain Customer Experience 90

CGI

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

CGI-sponsored GTNews survey reveals major challenge for corporate banks—declining client satisfaction (part 1). The 2019 survey reveals corporate clients’ satisfaction level has dropped to the lowest recorded level and is below 50% for the first time, with only 49% of corporate clients rating their bankers as good or excellent.

Retail 90

Retail Access Customer Experience IT 90

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs Why is.US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

Security 315

Security Ransomware Data breaches IoT 315

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up? Retailers have been prepping for this season all year and are ready to provide a safe, secure, and seamless customer shopping experience. According to the National Retail Federation (NFR), retail sales during 2024 will grow between 2.5% trillion and $5.28

Retail 71

Retail Security Data breaches Compliance 71

CGI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The race for corporate banks to catch up with their retail peers. Corporate and transaction banks (CTBs) face the challenge of delivering services equivalent to those offered by their retail bank peers. Corporates, particularly large corporates, have not experienced the benefits of this evolution in retail banking.

Retail 68

Retail Marketing Consumer Services Access 68

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2018

“Marketing and digital strategy roles drive top line revenue for firms—the latter is particularly important in retail and banking businesses as so much commerce moves online,” Conroy said. “Some companies are even moving the cybersecurity function to report up through the CFO,” Knight said.

Security 253

Security Marketing Cybersecurity Data breaches 253

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. What I’d originally planned to write about was a topic that directly applies – why retailers of all stripes are not investing in data security. But none of these reasons rose to the top in retail.

Retail 66

Retail Data breaches Encryption Mining 66

Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2019

After researching and blocking these resources, Group-IB’s team discovered several other fake websites illegally using famous international brands, including Conad (Italian retail store), Target (International retail stores), Carrefour (international chain of hypermarkets) and many others. win,top,money,gratis etc.)

Retail 260

Retail Marketing Cybersecurity Phishing 260

The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

About the Risk & Resilience research During January and February 2023, Beazley commissioned research company Opinion Matters to survey the opinions of over 2,000 business leaders and insurance buyers of businesses based in the UK, US, Canada and Singapore with international operations.

Risk 189

Risk Insurance Energy and Utilities Marketing 189

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 25, 2022

Organisations, including retailers, may collect biometric information via CCTV for a variety of reasons, including to build profiles of the individuals entering their stores, identify returning shoppers or to identify specific individuals that have previously been removed from their premises. The OAIC’s full statement is available here.

Retail 98

Retail Privacy Customer Experience Compliance 98

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Thales conducted a focused analysis drawn from its global 2024 Data Threat Report survey, centered on security and IT management professionals working for FinServ organizations to better understand the challenges these entities face in a rapidly shifting threat landscape.

Financial Services 62

Financial Services Cloud Compliance Authentication 62

The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

A recent survey of more than 1,000 senior execs and IT professionals, called the AppRiver Cyberthreat Index for Business Survey, showed a high level of awareness among SMB officials that a cyberattack represents a potentially devastating operational risk. These stark realities are beginning to sink in.

Risk 182

Risk Cybersecurity Passwords Ransomware 182

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

For example, a marketing executive at a retailer hires a company to conduct a survey on shoppers’ browsing habits. The executive (and the retailer generally) is the data controller, and the company conducting the survey is the data processor. Sounds simple enough.

GDPR 104

GDPR Retail Data collection Personal data 104

Collibra

APRIL 11, 2023

Retail is a dynamic and competitive market. In addition to the traditional brick-and mortar-stores, the retail business today includes online and mobile stores. The right kind of data can drive great innovations in retail. This blog outlines what bad data means and how you can stop it from hurting your retail business.

Retail 97

Retail Marketing Compliance Sales 97

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A BBB survey conducted in August found that the majority of these scammed consumers made purchases for which they never received products. “Of Don’t click that link… According to the BBB survey, emails wasn’t the most common way scammers pilfered people’s pockets, but it does still happen. On top of that, 80.5%

Passwords 95

Passwords Retail Insurance Security 95

Collibra

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Dresner surveyed nearly 800 business intelligence (BI) professionals to examine customer preferences, customer investment and vendor performance in the data catalog space. 47% of Dresner’s survey respondents indicated that they have difficulty accessing data, but simply locating data is only part of the challenge.

Marketing 49

Marketing Analytics Government Financial Services 49

CGI

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The challenge ahead for water retailers. Before we all breathe a collective sigh of relief, let’s take a quick look at other markets to get a glimpse of what my lay in store for retailers in this market. To increase margins retailers are increasingly looking to digital transformation. premanath.puch…. Thu, 12/07/2017 - 15:43.

Retail 40

Retail Energy and Utilities Marketing Digital transformation 40

CGI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

‘People are strange, when you’re a stranger’: A retail bank view into artificial intelligence. For the past five years, CGI has surveyed retail bank customers to identify what they want from banks, how they view alternative providers, and opportunities for further bank investment to provide banks with a view into the year ahead.

Artificial Intelligence 45

Artificial Intelligence Retail Customer Experience Marketing 45

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

This year is expected to see similarly high numbers which is paralleled by increasing retailer anxiety about the state of their cybersecurity. In fact, according to our recent survey of retailers , 88% feel vulnerable to data threats. Almost 1 million visited physical stores.

Risk 90

Risk Retail Digital transformation Authentication 90

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Some 27 percent of IT professionals who partook in a survey conducted by next-gen firewall supplier Imperva at RSA 2018 reported receiving more than 1 million security alerts daily. In many cases the tedious, first-level correlating of SIEM logs to sift out threats has moved beyond human capability.

Digital transformation 193

Digital transformation Marketing Analytics Risk 193

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are almost upon us, kickstarting what retailers hope will be a successful trading period. However, retailers offering both a physical and digital presence stand to gain the most, as the omnichannel approach is favoured by 69% of UK-based survey respondents. Need more information?

Retail 86

Retail Personal data GDPR Risk 86

Dark Reading

DECEMBER 6, 2017

More than 20% lack a breach response plan altogether, a new survey shows.

Retail 47

Retail 47

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

According to the 2024 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey Report , 80% of organizations were victims of payment fraud attacks or attempts, a 15-percentage point increase from the previous year. The Expanding Fraud Landscape Fraud is as big a problem as ever – if not worse. But that likely doesn’t come as much of a surprise.

Financial Services 71

Financial Services Encryption Digital transformation Compliance 71

IT Governance

JULY 20, 2018

Unfortunately, world-famous retailer Fortnum & Mason was recently let down by a weak link – survey company Typeform – that exposed the personal data of 23,000 of its customers. The data of approximately 23,000 competition and survey participants who inputted into a Typeform form has been involved in this breach.

Personal data 58

Personal data Retail Data breaches GDPR 58

TAB OnRecord

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Among those surveyed, 50% said they prefer to shop online to compare prices and reviews easily. According to the survey, 70% of participants stated they did price comparison online. According to BDO’s analysis from the perspective of retailers, the most effective promotion for holiday season success is applying discounts.

Retail 90

Retail Marketing Sales IT 90

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Poor key management often leads to catastrophic outcomes: according to the Thales 2024 Data Threat Report , our survey of over 3,000 enterprises worldwide revealed that 49% had already fallen victim to a data breach. Encryption keys safeguard your organisations sensitive data, regulate access, and ensure the integrity of your IT systems.

Compliance 79

Compliance Cloud Encryption Data breaches 79

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Those across the manufacturing and utilities industries had the highest preparedness rates at 91%, while retail had the lowest across both countries at 78%. The survey was issued in November 2018 by Censuswide. Base number of survey participants. Base number of survey participants. Retail, Catering & Leisure.

GDPR 81

GDPR Data breaches Retail Manufacturing 81

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Back in July, we shared a blog featuring survey results of 1,000 UK consumers. The survey delved into their purchasing plans ahead of Amazon Prime Day, and gauged how many had digital assistants at the top of their shopping list.

Security 66

Security IoT Retail Privacy 66

ChiefTech

JANUARY 30, 2013

Self-service checkouts in supermarkets and other retails shop fronts are fascinating on so many levels - from their design to the ethical dilemma of replacing people with machines. At Coles, 40% of their transactions are through self-service checkouts and in the UK, 63% of a survey of 5,000 shoppers said they like using self-service.

Retail 74

Retail IT Financial Services Insurance 74

CGI

JANUARY 10, 2019

Recent surveys reveal that shoppers still significantly value interaction with a human sales assistant. As emerging technologies and innovation come together to revolutionize retail, the physical store of the future is only limited by imagination. One of the world’s leading online book retailers offers a great example.

Customer Experience 58

Customer Experience Retail Sales Digital transformation 58

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In a May 2023 survey carried out by IBM and Momentive.ai , 67% of CMOs reported that they plan on implementing generative AI in the next 12 months and 86% plan to do so within 24 months. For example, a retail clothing company might use generative AI to customize email or online experiences tailored for different customer personas.

Marketing 112

Marketing B2B Customer Experience Communications 112