Retail Cybersecurity
Bolster retail machine identity management to help prevent system outages, secure supply chains and verify complex inventories of IoT devices and distributed machines.
Why cybersecurity in retail is important
While many retail cyberattacks are due to flaws in payment systems, the complexity of retail cybersecurity goes even further than your standard POS terminal. Unsecured IoT devices, supply chains, ransomware and web application attacks also threaten your retailer’s reputation—and you’re still on the hook for swaths of customer information, including credit card details.
All those machine activities and transactions must be verified, which is why retailers require a complete machine identity management solution.
10,000+ breaches
With today’s reliance on ecommerce, retailers are common cyberattack victims. In fact, in the last two decades, retailers have experienced over 10,000 data breaches.
Challenges in retail cybersecurity
Insufficient visibility into machine activity
Retailers handle inordinate amounts of machine activity, like processing payments, updating inventory and tracking shipments. Tackling it all manually isn’t feasible—or efficient.
IoT and service vulnerabilities
Remember those POS terminals? They’re a common access vector for threat actors, but you might not have considered all those handhelds, tablets and other devices your team uses to do business daily. They all need machine identities, and so do the applications and services running on them.
Software supply chain vulnerabilities
Third-party exploits are common in the retail industry, and if you can’t ensure your supply chain is secure, you risk financial, legal and reputational damage—with the average cost of one third-party breach being $4.55m!
Retail information security solutions from Venafi
The Venafi Control Plane helps retailers orchestrate all machine identity activity regardless of machine type, location or use case—even in the most complex, cloud native environments.
White Paper
Machine identity complexity is causing massive problems.
The perimeter is dead, and the rapid expansion of cloud native infrastructure has caused an explosion of new machine identities—and staggering levels of difficulty in managing them. Read this 1-page brief to learn how a control plane standardizes your approach to machine identity management.
Total observability
Leave no stone unturned. Uncover 25-30% more certificates during your discovery phase with Venafi.
Using complete discovery capabilities, build a centralized inventory of all machine identities across your retail organization, avoid outages and be alerted to potential vulnerabilities.
Consistent, automated workflows
Automate 65-85% of your certificate lifecycle management.
Automate certificate lifecycle management from end to end, and establish clear policies to avoid rogue or overlooked certificates.
Internal and external verification
Use code signing to verify otherwise less-secure IoT devices and third-party software. If a machine isn’t authorized to run in your environment, it won’t, reducing your risk of malware and ransomware.
Work the way you want
Easily orchestrate the apps your retail organization is already using by integrating with our extensive technology partner Ecosystem.
3 of 5 of the world’s largest, most influential retailers trust Venafi to secure and protect their machine identities.
The world’s best health insurers, airlines, payment card issuers, banks and accounting firms also rely on us—your retail organization can, too.
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top U.S. retailers
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top U.S. health insurers
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top U.S. airlines
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top payment cards issuers
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top U.S. banks
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top UK banks
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top S. African Banks
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top AU banks
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Retail Customer Eliminates Outages and Improves Security
Learn how one U.S. retailer with thousands of stores and a strong online presence uses Venafi to eliminate 100 percent of certificate-related outages, automate its operational workload and reduce certificate provisioning time from days to mere minutes.
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