Preventing the Common Lot of Retail ‘Breachiness’

Hardly a month goes by without a media report of another security breach in the retail industry. Target, eBay, Neiman Marcus, The Home Depot, Jimmy John's, Dairy Queen — the list of large retail and restaurant chains that were exposed to cyberattacks within recent years is unprecedentedly long. A retail data breach isn't only large scale in terms of people affected, but also in breach cost as well. The August 2013 Nilson Report marked an almost sixfold increase in credit card fraud cost since 2000, and that figure is expected to keep growing.