Retail and hospitality threat trend report
July 21, 2020
July 21, 2020
The retail and hospitality sectors face a diverse pool of cyber threats, influenced by the industry’s value chains, the changing business environment and expanding adversary motivations.
Cyberthreats referenced in the Retail and Hospitality Threat Trend Report run congruent to those experienced during the current COVID-19 crisis, focusing on spaces where potential targets are concentrated, such as e-commerce (consumers) and developing across spaces where potential targets are migrating such as remote workforces and cloud.
Accenture and RH-ISAC are teaming to help retailers and hospitality companies to advance security capabilities, be better informed, and stay one step ahead of sophisticated cybercriminals.
With a focus on current and emerging threat trends, this report can be leveraged across various levels of a firm’s cybersecurity leadership to inform business strategy, adversary simulation and threat intelligence priorities. In doing so, the report focuses on the following themes:
The retail and hospitality sectors face diverse cyber threats, influenced by the industry’s value chains, changing business environment and expanding adversary motivations.
With a wide variety of cyberthreats to defend against, from ransomware to fraud, retail and hospitality organizations need to prioritize tracking and mitigating risks associated with cyber threats of greatest consequence to their environment. This effort can be aided by pursuing some of the following actions: