“Firewalls can’t solve today’s most urgent security priorities. After all, more than 80 percent of network traffic is inside the perimeter.” Guardicore Centra / Forrester
The retail industry is moving at pace with new and emerging technologies that are revolutionizing the retail experience. Retailers are embracing social media, online shopping and digital payment technologies whilst also focusing on improving user experience.
This undoubtedly presents huge opportunities to retail organizations, however, it also increases vulnerability to cybersecurity attacks. Over 11 billion consumer records have been compromised in the last decade, with payment card information often the target of malicious attacks. This has resulted in a rise in enforcement notices, financial penalties and even prosecutions of retailers that have failed to protect consumer data.
However, the risk of reputational and financial damage associated with a payment card data breach is significantly reduced by compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). Established in 2006 by a council made up of major card brands, the PCI DSS is a set of industry standards designed to ensure all organizations that handle credit card information do so securely.
Nipper has been supporting compliance with PCI DSS by helping advanced cyber teams make credible, risk-based decisions to improve network security and protect critical networks against increasingly sophisticated exploits. Nipper’s accurate configuration assessments enables users to detect misconfigurations in routers, switches and firewalls, as well as determining their impact to the network if exploited, the ease of exploitation, and ease of fix - in order to prioritize remediation workflows by risk criticality.
Nipper Enterprise is now providing this capability at scale, enabling the assessment of up to 300,000 devices on an up-to-hourly basis, and the roadmap to automatically remediate vulnerabilities and insecure configurations in order to help organizations establish a defendable network.
