Proactive Retail Defense: Building Peak Season Resilience Across Every Touchpoint

Peak shopping season brings surging sales—and an onslaught of cyber threats targeting payment processing, high-volume store traffic, and application uptime. Cybercriminals use automated bots, ransomware, and credential theft to exploit seasonal visibility gaps, threatening operations across stores, distribution centers, and third-party vendors. Join us to examine the latest retail threat trends and how retailers can navigate threat landscapes without sacrificing guest experiences or operational agility.

In this session, we will cover:

• Q4 Threat Landscape & Evolution: Understand why peak season is ground zero for attacks.
• Enterprise vs. Guest Risks: Differentiate high-impact enterprise threats, including ransomware and supply chain attacks, from guest-facing vectors such as bot attacks and gift card fraud.
• Seasonal Hiring & Code Freeze Dilemmas: Mitigate identity risks from temporary staff and safely patch critical zero-day vulnerabilities during strict Q4 change freezes.
• Core Defensive Strategies: Enforce Zero Trust identity, secure enterprise browsers, and automate real-time response to protect store operations and revenue.