Top five
holiday tips
to help businesses stay more secure during the busy
holiday season
'Tis the season to establish a unique, holistic secure payment process to protect both an enterprise and its customers. Here are Optiv’s top five tips geared toward helping retail, travel and hospitality companies gain clarity from the security chaos they experience during this stressful yet critical time of the year.
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The holidays bring much joy but they also bring stress, chaos and security challenges for business, IT and security leaders. This time of year exacerbates an already complicated and vast attack surface with the growth and importance of data, mobility and Point of Sale (POS).
With this challenge, organizations must work overtime to protect their entire application infrastructure. Detecting attacks, maintaining availability and enabling rapid response to incidents are now business requirements.
Increasing popularity of simplified payment methods, such as Apple Pay, Square and loyalty rewards paired with the growing focus on data privacy and governance, requires organizations to make tough decisions. A balance must be found between the need for simplified payment methods, loyalty programs and security requirements.
Hackers don’t take a holiday when you do. Ensure cyber security this season by implementing the above tips.
Wishing you a cyber safe holiday season!
Contact Optiv to help you develop a payment security program and perform a risk assessment.
1. Have a plan
2. Audit point-of-
sale (POS) now
3. Remind others
that holiday season is also hacker season
4. Beware of lurking
ransomware attacks
5. Use secure
payment options when possible
Learn more about how to stay cyber secure this holiday season by reading our latest blog:
"Keeping Who-ville Cyber Secure This Holiday Season"