Preventing the Common Lot of Retail ‘Breachiness’

The tendency toward "breachiness" is easily proved by numerous Verizon Data Breach Investigations Reports. Payment card data remains one of the easiest types of data to convert to cash, and thus is the preferred choice of criminals. This poses a clear danger for IT departments, considering 74 percent of attacks on retail, accommodations and food services companies target payment card information. As a result, organizations tend to suffer from monetary losses (e.g., huge unplanned investments into IT security or fines for noncompliance), drops in profit, litigation, reputation damage and diminished customer loyalty.