Retail handles enormous volumes of payment data, which makes it a constant target. These articles cover securing retail systems from the infrastructure side, drawn from two decades running technology and security for a major national chain.
AmericaMy mom pasted Green Stamps into books at Sage's in San Bernardino, back when stores paid you to come back. Now I pay Walmart $150 a year and it's still the best deal in town. Here's how Publix, Aldi, Trader…
AuditsOur PCI auditor looked at a legacy database connection we could not afford to rebuild and said: wrap it in a VPN. That sentence introduced us to mitigating controls, turned a six-figure project into a configuration change, and taught me…
AuditsPass the audit and nothing happens. Fail it and the company loses the ability to take credit cards. For eight straight years I carried a major retailer through PCI audits that nobody outside IT ever noticed, and that invisibility is…
CybersecurityHe arrived to service the payment terminals, carrying replacements: our exact model, hacked to skim card data. What stopped him was not a firewall or a scanner. It was a policy simple enough to survive contact with a busy front…
AuditsI ran PCI compliance at a national retailer for twenty years and passed every audit, then started ghostwriting books for the security leaders who live this work. Here is what nobody admits: passing an audit and being secure are not…
AuditsNorman Kromberg joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories for a practical cybersecurity conversation: why security is a business decision, defending against nation-states and the human attack surface, the identity-defined perimeter, and speaking the language of the C-suite.
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