Fortifying against cyber threats in retail sector

Hello, we meet again. In this post, i would like to give a brief summary about one article and I think it is good to share with all the readers out there. Hope that you will not feel bored while reading this post because I really don't know on how to write it beautifully like any blogger did. 

The article that I found title is " Fortifying against cyber threats in retail sector " from the Malaysia SME newspaper in the ICT Buzz date October 5 - October 18, 2013 whereby this newspaper produced 2 weeks per month. basically this article delivered informatively by the Fortinet's Vice President for South East Asia and Hong Kong Dato' Seri George Chan and Fortinet Regional Technical Director for Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Eric Chan. First of all, here I will talk a bit what is Fortinet. As I Google from the Internet, Fortinet is an American company that specializes in network security appliances. As this article will talk about cyber threats as well as security for the retail sector, then it is vital to interviewed both of them who are expert in Internet security. 

Retail industry is one of the biggest business industry in today's market and it is one of the top 3 industries that targeted by the cyber criminals. Mostly the cyber criminals will attacked at the credit card system due to this system easy to breach. Dato' Seri George Chan said that it is necessary for retailers throughout Malaysia to know the security of network connectivity in their business. It is also important for the retailers to have cost effective "network security solutions" in order to prevent cyber threats. Fortinent had highlighted five (5) issues that urged Malaysia's retail industry to consider when dealing with network security. The highlighted issues are multi-threat security systems, high performance networks for excellent customer experience, in-depth defense for the in-store wireless LAN, adoption of innovative in-store services and payment card industry data security standard (PCI-DSS) compliance support. 

Apart from that, it is necessary for retailer to have a stronger threat prevention techniques to protect viruses and also malware. Fortinent also stated that they have advanced security system that can help retailers to increase their operation efficiency. Furthermore it is also important that retailers to ensure that their networks are able to perform satisfactory where continuous credit card processing and point of sale connectivity is concerned. Retailers need to be aware with the attackers that can breach the systems and get the data from retailers which they will wrongly use it for their own purposes. Finally here, it is important for the retailers to be able to analyse user and device behavior on the in-store network and respond to any threat. 

So, such a long story here I gave from this article. I'm sorry if the readers feel bored about it but I guess that I hope I can give you some information especially to the retailers. Hope that the retailers can take note about the cyber criminal especially the customer credit card breached due to it's very important thing for the retailers. 

So, see you guys again on next post. Have a nice day .